‘Trump Is Mentally Unwell In A Way That Makes Him Interested Exclusively In What Benefits Him’

On CNN’s New Day Wednesday, the network’s White House correspondent John Harwood said former President Donald Trump was “mentally unwell in a way that makes him interested exclusively in what benefits him.”

Harwood was discussing remarks the former president made in a new interview, in which he called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release damaging information about President Biden and his family, repeating unproven claims that Mr. Biden’s son Hunter had business dealings in Russia. “I would think Putin would know the answer to that,” Trump said in the interview with JustTheNews. “I think he should release it. I think we should know the answer.”

Noting that Trump’s call for Putin to release information damaging to the sitting U.S. president at a time when the country is engaged in supporting Ukraine as it defends itself from a Russian invasion, Harwood said for Trump, “questions of true/false, right/wrong, America’s friends/America’s enemies are irrelevant to Donald Trump. Russia has helped him financially and politically over the years, and he has aligned himself with Vladimir Putin.”

“This is significant not just because he was president,” Harwood continued. “But he’s the leader of one of America’s two political parties—he might be president again. And this is a moment of moral clarity. When Vladimir Putin is slaughtering thousands of people in Ukraine, for Republicans who do care about the difference between right/wrong, true/false, America’s friends/America’s enemies to reflect on whether this is the person they want to attach their party to.”

Trump’s comments come as a host on Russian state-run television described the former president as “our partner Trump” in a segment discussing President Biden’s remarks about Putin during a speech in Poland on Saturday that “for God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”