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Since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, the public's attention has shifted to glaring age gap between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump's flailing attacks on Harris and often incoherent speeches have raised questions about his ability to serve another term. Ramin Setoodeh, a journalist who interviewed Trump six times in 2021 for his book "Apprentice in Wonderland," told Salon that he noticed lapses in the 78-year-old's memory even three years ago.


"So when I went to interview Donald Trump, my first interview was shortly after he left the White House in May of 2021. And then when I returned back to Trump Tower later that summer, because he invited me to go back to have a second interview, he didn't recall meeting with me or our first interview, and he told me that was “a long time ago.”

He struggled with the chronology of events, particularly some of the events that happened in the White House. At one point, he told me he had to go deal with “the Afghanistan.” And it was confusing because he didn't have access to the foreign policy briefings.

So there were moments where it felt like he had these memory lapses or spatial lapses. And in fact, I even noticed that the other night, when he was talking to Elon Musk and he mentioned Joe Biden. For a second, it sounded like he thought he was running against Joe Biden, and then he mentioned Kamala Harris's name. So, you know, I think clearly he has his foggy memory and his short-term memory isn't great."

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