Last Updated: February 11, 2024, 11:05 IST
Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
Former US president Donald Trump is ceught in a two-way race with fellow Republican and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. (Image: AP/Reuters)
Former US President Donald Trump mocks Nikki Haley’s husband for army deployment, sparking backlash. Haley fires again, criticizing Trump’s disrespect
Former US president Donald Trump has mocked his Republican rival Nikki Haley over the absence of her husband, who’s deployed abroad, drawing a pointy response from the Indian-American politician who mentioned the one that disrespects army households has no business being commander-in-chief.
Haley’s husband Major Michael Haley, a commissioned officer with the South Carolina National Guard, is presently on a year-long deployment with the 218th Maneuver Enhancement Bridge, which is offering assist within the Horn of Africa. He deployed in June. The disagreement between two Republican presidential candidates began with a Trump rally on Saturday in South Carolina the place the 77-year-old former president, seemingly unaware of his deployment, when began questioning his whereabouts.
“Where’s her husband? Oh, he’s away. What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone,” Trump mentioned at his rally in Conway in South Carolina, his first go to to the state this 12 months. Haley, 52, the one candidate towards Trump within the Republican Party’s nomination race, fired again at Trump’s feedback afterward Saturday. “Donald, if you have something to say, don’t say it behind my back; get on a debate stage and say it to my face, she told a crowd in South Carolina. I am proud of Michael’s service. Every military family knows it’s a sacrifice. I have long talked about the fact that we need to have mental competency tests for [politicians] over the age of 75,” she mentioned.
Trump claims he would cross that possibly he would, possibly he wouldn’t, she mentioned. “But if you mock the service of a combat veteran, you don’t deserve a driver’s license, let alone to be president of the United States,” she mentioned. Michael is deployed serving the US nation, one thing nothing about. “Someone who continually disrespects the sacrifices of military families has no business being commander-in-chief,” Haley mentioned. Trump’s touch upon Haley’s husband additionally drew criticism from varied quarters. “Only a sick individual would put down a service member who is deployed. This disrespects every military family in our country. It’s exactly the chaos we don’t need in America,” mentioned General (rtd) Don Bolduc.
In a uncommon transfer, Michael Haley fired again on the former president, posting a meme on Twitter studying, “The difference between humans and animals? Animals would never allow the dumbest ones to lead the pack,” whereas mentioning Trump’s account within the caption. Continuing his assault, Trump alleged that Haley is the candidate of globalists and warmongers who wish to spend trillions and trillions of {dollars} on limitless wars. “The radical left Democrats want Nikki Haley because they know that she’s easy to beat. She’s very easy to beat. Haley supports a 23% national sales tax, and she wants to gut Medicare and Social Security…,” he mentioned.
Earlier, Haley kicked off her Beast of the Southeast bus tour with a cease in Newberry. In an interplay with the media, she spoke about her opponents’ lack of stamina and harassed the significance of psychological competency checks for politicians over the age of 75. Her marketing campaign additionally distributed examples of the psychological competency checks utilized by medical professionals, demonstrating that it shouldn’t be a troublesome take a look at for many who are in search of the best workplace within the land.
“(For months) I have always said that (President) Joe Biden was not going to be president. You look at what’s happened in the last couple of days, and you see exactly what I’m talking about. The fact that we’re dealing with someone who the special counsel said that their memory was failing, that they are diminished,” she mentioned It’s greater than simply Joe Biden. You can have a look at the identical factor: whether or not it’s Donald Trump getting me confused with Nancy Pelosi, his mood tantrums, the issues he’s finished,” Haley mentioned. In a dangerous report, a particular US counsel final week mentioned that President Joe Biden willfully mishandled categorised paperwork as a non-public citizen however concluded that it might be troublesome to convict him as he comes throughout as an aged man with a poor reminiscence.
The report from Special Counsel Robert Hur has prompted an election-year brawl and renewed questions on Biden’s superior age. “It’s time for a new generational leader. The party that dismisses their 80-year-old candidate is the party that will win the presidency, without a doubt. The Democrats are waking up to that now. You’re going to see them make their moves,” she mentioned.
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