Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley on Saturday aggressively questioned former president Donald Trump’s mental fitness, seizing on a flub at a rally in which Trump repeatedly called Nancy Pelosi by Haley’s name when attacking the former House speaker.
Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita sought to downplay Trump’s mix up, claiming on social media that Haley and Pelosi are “a distinction without a difference” – a suggestion that Haley is too liberal for Republican voters.
During his rally Friday night, Trump repeated his claim that he made a “recommendation for troops” on Jan. 6, 2021. The House select committee that investigated Jan. 6 found “no evidence” to support his claim. Trump has alleged that information corroborating his claim was destroyed but has presented no evidence of that.
“You know Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, did you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything?” Trump told his crowd Friday. “Deleted it and destroyed all of it because of lots of things, like Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people.”
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