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With a little
more than two months to go before the Nov. 8 U.S. election, the
comments by David Plouffe, a former senior adviser to President
Barack Obama and manager of his 2008 presidential campaign, mark
another escalation in a series of blows exchanged between
Trump's camp and that of his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton.
"Basically, you have a psychopath running for president. I mean,
he meets the clinical definition," Plouffe said in an interview
on NBC's "Meet the Press".
When challenged, Plouffe acknowledged he had no degree in
psychology but rattled off what he said were the New York
businessman's symptoms: "grandiose notion of self-worth;
pathological lying; lack of empathy and remorse."
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
Last week, Clinton accused Trump of fueling America's "radical
fringe" with racist rhetoric, while Trump said Clinton was
letting down black Americans with failed policies and called her
a "bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human
beings."
Obama has also lambasted Trump, saying of him: "Somebody who
makes those kinds of statements doesn't have the judgment, the
temperament, the understanding to occupy the most powerful
position in the world."
(Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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