Nikki Haley Says She Hasn’t Forgotten What Trump Said About Her Husband

Former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley admitted Wednesday that she doesn’t like Donald Trump’s persona and continues to be disturbed by the offensive remarks he made about her, her husband and his army service ― though she endorsed his bid for president.

Haley, who dropped out of the GOP main race in March, stated on her lately debuted SiriusXM radio show that she’s needed to put apart her private grievances along with her celebration’s nominee, who’s recognized for slinging insults at his opponents.

“You’re not going to listen to me say glowing issues about Donald Trump’s persona,” she stated. “I’ve points with him as nicely. I’ve not forgotten what he stated about me. I’ve not forgotten what he stated about my husband or his deployment time or his army service.”

In February, Trump questioned why Haley’s husband, Michael Haley, wasn’t showing at marketing campaign occasions along with her.

“The place is he? He’s gone,” Trump joked.

Haley’s husband was serving a yearlong stint on a Nationwide Guard mission in Africa on the time.

Trump’s jab was particularly odd contemplating his spouse, Melania Trump, has been absent from the practically everything of his marketing campaign this election cycle.

“I haven’t forgotten about his or his marketing campaign’s ways, from, you already know, placing a birdcage outdoors our lodge room to calling me ‘birdbrain,’” Haley stated. “I haven’t forgotten any of that, however politics isn’t first for thin-skinned folks.”

Trump’s persona isn’t what’s vital, Haley continued.

“One of the best ways to serve your nation is to not get private, however concentrate on the place we’re with the financial system, focus the place we’re with the border, concentrate on nationwide safety, concentrate on freedom,” she stated.

However Haley was highly critical of Trump’s insurance policies on these points whereas she was nonetheless operating.

“President Trump has surrounded himself with the political elite, however they’re the identical political elite which have spent like drunken sailors, they’ve raided social safety, they usually proceed to waste taxpayer {dollars},” she stated in February. “Everyone talks concerning the financial system when Trump was President ― he put us $8 trillion in debt in simply 4 years.”