Ex-Trump Officials Bury ‘Pathetic’ Nikki Haley For Endorsing Trump
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Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley irked many Trump critics on the right on Wednesday when she said she would vote for Trump in the general election. Haley, who relentlessly blasted Trump as unfit for the presidency during her presidential run, earned the scorn of other former Trump officials who served – as Haley did – in the first Trump administration.
Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham took X and wrote, “Voting for a wanna-be dictator doesn’t make you a good Republican. It makes you a puppet & it’s pathetic.”
Voting for a wanna-be dictator doesn’t make you a good Republican. It makes you a puppet & it’s pathetic.
— Stephanie Grisham (@OMGrisham) May 23, 2024
Former Trump communications aide and current co-host of The View, Alyssa Farah Griffin, remarked, “Maybe I’m petty, but if someone attacked my family, marriage, race, intelligence, & American democracy, I would not be able to support them for President.”
Maybe I’m petty, but if someone attacked my family, marriage, race, intelligence, & American democracy, I would not be able to support them for President.
— Alyssa Farah Griffin (@Alyssafarah) May 22, 2024
Griffin, who also previously worked for then Vice President Mike Pence, added, “Pence is not supporting Trump. He’s proven to have more courage and fidelity to the Constitution than his peers. History will remember it.”
During a Q&A at the Hudson Institute in Washington on Wednesday, Haley said she would vote for Trump, the first time she has publicly said so, only because “Biden has been a catastrophe.”
Former Trump national security advisor, John Bolton, told CNN on Wednesday he was “disappointed” with Haley’s willingness to vote for Trump. Bolton added, “I noticed that in her remarks, at least as reported in the press, she said that she wanted to support a president who would back America’s allies and hold its enemies accountable, and that’s not Donald Trump.”
