Nikki Haley on Sunday mocked Republican presidential major rival Donald Trump’s demeanor on the subject of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Every time he was in the same room with him he got weak in the knees,” Haley instructed a Fox News city corridor in South Carolina. “We can’t have a president that gets weak in the knees with Putin. We have to have a president that’s going to be strong with Putin in every sense of the word.”
Haley’s feedback got here following the sudden demise of Russian opposition chief and fierce Putin critic Alexei Navalny, on the age of 47, at a distant Arctic penal colony final week. Many world leaders have blamed the demise on Putin.
Haley did the identical, pointing the finger on the Russian president after which saying Trump, who has usually lavished reward on his onetime counterpart, “needs to answer whether he thinks Putin is responsible for Navalny.”
Elsewhere within the city corridor, Haley stated she’d pardon four-times-indicted Trump if he was convicted in a federal court docket after which she gained the White House in November as a result of it wouldn’t be “a matter of innocence or guilt” by then however “in the interest of bringing the country together.”
“I would pardon Donald Trump because I think it’s important for the country to move on,” she added. “We’ve got to leave the negativity and the baggage behind. I don’t want this country divided any further. I don’t think it’s in the best interest for America to have an 80-year-old president sitting in jail and having everybody upset about it.”