Knives Out: Trump Supporters Claim Nikki Haley Turned on Trump

Nikki Haley is making the media rounds, including a long profile in Politico. In the interview she criticized her old boss former President Trump, and that’s not sitting well with anyone, left or right.


Summary

In a wide-ranging profile, Politico shared Nikki Haley’s political rise and future, anecdotes of her time in the Trump White House detail her power struggles with top administration brass, including then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Vice President Mike Pence, a former friend of Haley’s.

  • Included in the Politico article is Haley’s declaration that Trump “let us down”, saying Republicans “shouldn’t have followed him”, despite defending Trump just a few weeks ago.
  • When Haley was asked why she didn’t reach out to Trump to convince him to end his push to challenge election results, Haley said “The person that I worked with is not the person that I have watched since the election.”
  • Haley defended former Vice President Mike Pence, with whom Politico alleged a falling-out of sorts after Haley’s political maneuvering in the Trump administration, saying she was disgusted by Trump’s treatment of Pence.

 

reporting from the left side of the aisle

 

  • The New York Times framed their report on Haley’s Politico profile through her potential run for president in 2024, saying her comments were “calibrated.”
  • Haley’s criticism of Trump and her belief he is not the future of the Republican Party was the focus on CNN’s reporting.
  • Huffington Post delighted in collecting Twitter comments slamming Haley for criticizing Trump “too little, too late.”

 

 


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