Republican Party Profiles in Courage: Nikki Haley

Alternative Fact

“I’ll start by making one thing perfectly clear: Donald Trump has my strong endorsement, period.”

Nikki Haley speech at the RNC, where she endorsed Donald Trump for President, 7/16/2024.

Fact

“The problem now is he [Trump] is not the same person he was in 2016. He is unhinged. He is more diminished than he was.”

Nikki Haley, NBC Today interview, 2/14/2024

“They’re saying he [Trump] got confused, that he was talking about something else, he’s talking about Nancy Pelosi. The concern I have is — I’m not saying anything derogatory — but when you’re dealing with the pressures of the presidency, we can’t have someone else that we question whether they’re mentally fit to do this.”

Nikki Haley, 1/20/2024, questioning whether Donald Trump is mentally capable of being president after confusing his primary opponent (Nikki Haley) as the person who was in charge of Capital security on January 6, 2021. 

“He [Trump] showed that with that kind of disrespect for the military, he’s not qualified to be the president of the United States, because I don’t trust him to protect them.”

Nikki Haley, 2/12/2024, questioning Donald Trump is qualified to be president given the disrespect he has for the military.