Former presidential candidate Nikki Haley hasn’t “forgotten” the tactics former President Donald Trump and his campaign used when they ran against each other in the Republican primaries earlier this year.
Haley is hosting a new SiriusXM show and said during the first episode that her audience shouldn’t expect to hear niceties about Trump, despite the fact that the former U.N. ambassador supported him.
The former governor of South Carolina dropped out of the presidential race in early March – after a disappointing Super Tuesday – and waited until the end of May to give Trump the nod.
She told listeners “you’re not going to hear me say anything positive about Donald Trump’s personality.”
‘I haven’t forgotten what he said about me. I haven’t forgotten what he said about my husband or about his, you know, deployment or his military service,” Haley said.
Former presidential candidate Nikki Haley hasn’t “forgotten” the tactics former President Donald Trump and his campaign used when they ran against each other in the Republican Party primaries earlier this year.
While Haley was campaigning for the White House, her husband Michael was deployed to Africa as part of his service in the Army National Guard.
“I haven’t forgotten his campaign tactics, from placing a birdcage outside our hotel room to calling me ‘birdbrain,’” she continued. “I haven’t forgotten that.”
Trump’s nickname for Haley was “birdbrain” during the Republican primaries.
After DailyMail.com revealed new details about two alleged affairs Haley had in 2008 – which she denies – Trump taunted Haley about her husband’s whereabouts during a campaign rally in February.
‘Where is her husband? Oh, he’s gone… What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone,” Trump said at a rally in Haley’s home state of South Carolina.
Trump appeared to reference the alleged affairs, telling Michael Haley’s crowd, “he knew it, he knew it.”
Haley suggested that this behavior was expected because “politics is not for the thin-skinned.”
Former President Donald Trump called Nikki Haley ‘bird brained’ and suggested her husband wanted to be away from her when they competed against each other in the Republican primaries earlier this year
“It’s just not that,” she said.
After DailyMail.com reported on her alleged affairs, Haley’s campaign banned the Mail’s reporters from covering future campaign events.
‘Daily Mail has no credentials for any more events. I politely ask you to leave,” Haley spokeswoman Chaney Denton told a reporter and photographer at a campaign event in New Hampshire in mid-January.
During the debut episode of her show, which was released Wednesday, Haley said she would “put the personal part of it aside” and be a straight-shooter.
“I look at what will make the country better,” she said. “So that’s what you’re going to hear on the show. You’re just going to hear the truth.’