Nikki Haley Claims: ‘We Need to Acknowledge Donald Trump Let Us Down’
Former US ambassador to the United Nation Nikki Haley said the GOP should acknowledge that former President Donald Trump let the party down when he repeatedly questioned the outcome of the 2020 election that led to the January 6 chaos at Capitol Hill.
The former South Carolina governor also claimed that Trump will no longer be relevant moving forward following the chaotic end to his presidency.
“I don’t think he’s going to be in the picture. I don’t think he can. He’s fallen so far,” Haley told Politico in reference to whether Trump will remain a ‘‘relevant’ personality in the GOP. “We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him.”
“He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again,” Trump’s former UN ambassador said.
‘Unfair’ Treatment Of Pence
Haley also slammed the former president for attempting to blame his election loss to former Vice President Mike Pence when he refused to decertify the election results despite widespread reports of election irregularities.
“When I tell you I’m angry, it’s an understatement,” Haley said. “Mike has been nothing but loyal to that man. He’s been nothing but a good friend of that man.” Haley continued, “I am so disappointed in the fact that [despite] the loyalty and friendship he had with Mike Pence, that he would do that to him. Like, I’m disgusted by it.”
The former South Carolina governor also noted that she was both “surprised” and “deeply disturbed” of the changes in Trump’s conduct following his election loss.
“Never did I think he would spiral out like this. … I don’t feel like I know who he is anymore. … The person that I worked with is not the person that I have watched since the election,” Haley claimed.
Nonetheless, Haley said it was a “waste of time,” she argued Trump was already experiencing the consequences of his actions.
“I think his business is suffering at this point. I think he’s lost any sort of political viability he was going to have,” she said, without offering evidence. “I think he’s lost his social media, which meant the world to him. I mean, I think he’s lost the things that really could have kept him moving.”
She also echoed the sentiment of some Republicans that it’s a “waste of time,” to tackle Trump’s impeachment as she noted that the former president of Trump is already experiencing the consequences of his actions.
“I think his business is suffering at this point. I think he’s lost any sort of political viability he was going to have,” Haley claimed, without supplying any further explanation.
“I think he’s lost his social media, which meant the world to him. I mean, I think he’s lost the things that really could have kept him moving.”
Despite her remark that the former Republican chief executive will no longer be significant to the GOP, polls have suggested otherwise.
A Pew Research Center survey found that majority of GOP voters said they want the former president to continue to be a major political figure in the party beyond his term. Hill-HarrisX survey also said 64% of Republicans also said they will leave the Republican Party to join a Trump-founded political party.
