Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley slammed former President Donald Trump for his conduct after the 2020 presidential elections.
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"We need to acknowledge he let us down," Haley told Politico in an interview published Friday.
"He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him. And we can't let that ever happen again," she said, referring to the deadly riot at the US Capitol on Jan. 6.
While Trump has managed to obtain support within the Republican Party, to the point where scores of ex-Republicans reportedly weigh forming an alternative center-right party, the former South Carolina governor asserted that Trump had no future in the GOP.
"He's not going to run for federal office again. I don't think he's going to be in the picture," Haley stressed.
Haley, a popular figure within Republican quarters, and who is considered a strong candidate for the 2024 presidential race, has voiced a slightly different tune on Jan. 25 when speaking to Fox News, saying the former president should have "absolutely not" been impeached.
Trump, who has repeatedly claimed election fraud during the 2020 November elections, was facing an unprecedented second impeachment trial – despite ending his term at the White House – for allegedly "inciting insurrection" that led to the Capitol Hill events.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
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