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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Trump says mixing Haley with Pelosi and Biden with Obama was tactic, not gaffe

a man stands in front of American flags
Donald Trump campaigns in North Charleston, South Carolina, on 14 February. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Donald Trump claimed high-profile campaign trail gaffes, in which he seemed to think Barack Obama was still president and mistook Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi, were deliberate, the result of his being “sarcastic” in the first instance and choosing to “interpose” names in the second.

“When I say ‘Barack Hussein Obama is the president of the United States’, [I am] meaning there’s a lot of control there because the one guy can’t put two sentences together,” the former president told supporters in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday.

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