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

Ex-president says he interposed' names as a rhetorical device to deride Haley and purposely linked Biden with Barack Obama

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.