Trump runs defense on age at PA town hall ahead of Steelers game

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pushed back against attacks on his age during a campaign event in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Sunday that came between a visit handing out fries at a McDonald’s and plans to attend a Pittsburgh Steelers game.”I’m not 80, and I’m not that close to 80,” the 78-year-old former president said at a town hall event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.”I’ve done cognitive tests. I’ve done them twice, and I aced both of them, and the doctor in one case said, ‘I’ve never seen anybody ace them,'” Trump added.Trump appeared to be referring to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment that his White House physician, Ronny Jackson, now a Texas Republican congressman, said the then-president answered perfectly in January of 2018. Trump has previously claimed to have aced that test, which takes about 10 minutes and poses 30 questions, including on naming the animal in an image and repeating back a series of words.During Sunday’s town hall, Trump also…

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