Campaign

George Conway: Trump ‘knows deep down’ that he’s ‘deteriorating’

by Nick Robertson - 01/25/24 10:37 AM ET

Conservative attorney George Conway suggested Thursday that former President Trump is “deteriorating” under the pressure of numerous legal cases and is lashing out at others in response as his reelection campaign rolls on.

The comments came after Trump’s New Hampshire victory speech following Tuesday’s primary, which included repeated jabs at former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, including mocking her concession speech earlier in the evening and making fun of her clothes.

The former president also encouraged Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who was on the stage, to openly declare his love for Trump, “humiliating” himself, according to Democratic strategist David Axelrod.

Conway added to the criticism, claiming Trump is “absolutely” afraid of Haley — who has emerged as his chief rival as the other candidates dropped from the race.

“And this is part and parcel of what I’d like to talk about is his pathological narcissism and his sociopathy,” he said Thursday in an MSNBC interview Thursday. “People like Donald Trump know that they are not what they pretend to be.”

“He talks about being a stable genius because he knows he is neither stable nor a genius, and he’s been doing that for years,” Conway continued. “And he knows deep down that he’s deteriorating under the pressure of the legal cases and as a result of his advanced age.”

Conway, who has become one of Trump’s toughest critics, also lauded Haley for her response to the former president’s speech, which she called a “temper tantrum.”

“Kudos to Nikki Haley for finally going after him in the way that she needs to go after him, the way that people need to go after him, including the Biden campaign in the fall,” he said. “You need to needle him. It’s not the campaign has to be much as much a psychological operation against Donald Trump’s empty brain as it must be, attempt an attempt to persuade voters because the two go hand in hand.”

“You poke Trump, and you make him behave crazily, crazily, and then you point out the crazy, and then you point that out to the voters,” the attorney, who is in the process of divorcing Kellyanne Conway, one of Trump’s former advisers, added.

Top Stories from The Hill

In her concession speech Tuesday, Haley committed to staying in the race until the South Carolina primary at the end of February.

“New Hampshire is first in the nation. It is not the last in the nation,” she said. “This race is far from over. There are dozens of states left to go.”