https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/1 ... n-00101795Haley ‘inclined in favor’ of Trump pardon
Her remarks came after she called the former president ‘reckless.’
After calling Donald Trump “reckless,” Nikki Haley on Tuesday said she would still be “inclined” to pardon him if he is convicted of federal charges.
Haley’s remarks on the conservative Clay Travis and Buck Sexton radio show came after the former U.N. ambassador and GOP presidential candidate on Monday said the allegations against Trump, if true, show that he put “all of our military men and women in danger.”
In Tuesday’s interview, Haley maintained that Trump was “incredibly reckless with our national security,” based on the indictment — but not reckless enough to deserve to carry out a sentence.
“When you look at a pardon, the issue is less about guilt and more about what’s good for the country,” Haley said. “And I think it would be terrible for the country to have a former president in prison for years because of a documents case.
“So I would be inclined in favor of a pardon.”
Biden-Harris HQ @BidenHQ wrote: Haley: I do think there’s a place for a federal law banning abortion
Hours after declining to do so, Nikki Haley said on Thursday morning that she believed slavery was, indeed, the cause of the Civil War. She suggested that the person who had asked her the question the night before was a “Democratic plant.”
“Well, two things on this track. I mean, of course, the Civil War was about slavery. We know that, that’s the easy part of it,” the former South Carolina governor told The Pulse of NH — News Talk Radio Network. “What I was saying was, what does it mean to us today? What it means to us today is about freedom. That’s what that was all about. It was about individual freedom. It was about economic freedom. It was about individual rights. Our goal is to make sure, no, we never go back to the stain of slavery.”
She did not go further in addressing why she did not say as much on Wednesday evening when she appeared at a town hall event in Berlin, New Hampshire. Instead, she posited that she had been set up.
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MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch wrote: FLASHBACK: During a 2010 interview with neo-Confederates, Nikki Haley avoided saying the the Civil War was fought over slavery and instead implied the South was “fighting for tradition” while the Union was “fighting for change.”
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Don't forget, Pence was critical too, also to make Zee Orange Furher palatable to the fundie christians of the Reich Wing...thinking he'd actually [Suranis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 9:09 pm
Trango chose Pense because he had no future left in politics and he was totally invisible. Pense was about to lose the Indiana Governorship as he was unpopular even members of his own party, so naming him meant that Pense would never upstage or go against the Great Diaper. Getting sacked would cast Pense into the wilderness.
] be able to influence the administration.... No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC wrote: Wow. Nikki Haley goes full MAGA, says she would pardon Trump if he were convicted of a crime in a court of law.
She says it’s not in “the best interest of our country to have an 80-year-old man sitting in jail.”
There are many elderly people in prisons. They're there because they committed crimes. Duh.She says it’s not in “the best interest of our country to have an 80-year-old man sitting in jail.”
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when she deflected it to all Americans should have absolute freedom to do whatever without the government interfering. Would have been nice to have the Fox host follow up and ask about Rs always butting into women's health issues and choices on abortions and all, but no...
