Haley Warns Trump’s Ukraine Policies Will Mean ‘More War,’ Slams Him For Siding With ‘Thug’ Putin
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley took aim at former President Donald Trump with a new ad on Tuesday arguing that Trump’s policies would allow for a Russian victory in Ukraine and “will bring more war.”
Haley continues to step up her attacks on Trump and take advantage of the former president’s recent controversial statements, including saying over the weekend he would welcome a Russian invasion of NATO allies.
“The chaos that surrounds him is bad enough,” the narrator in Haley’s ad begins, adding:
But what is Trump saying he’ll actually do in office? A 10% across the board tax increase. More record-breaking debt. A Russian victory that will bring more war. With a world on fire and a crisis at home, with Trump it’s just more chaos. Nikki Haley a better choice for a better America.
While campaigning in South Carolina, Haley tore into Trump’s comments on NATO. “That is so crazy. NATO is a 75-year success story. We haven’t had any wars in that area because of that alliance. Russia has never invaded a NATO country because Russia’s intimidated by that alliance. And the fact that you’d put that alliance in danger. The fact that you would go and side with a thug. Putin kills his opponents. Right now he’s arrested Evan Gershkovich, a journalist, for just doing his job.”
“He has never hidden the fact he wants to defeat America,” Haley added of Putin. “And someone who wants to be president of the United States is siding with that thug instead of the people who are with us after 9/11. It doesn’t make sense.”
Haley echoed the sentiment in the ad during a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday. “ When he leaves the teleprompter, he is unhinged. And everybody can say whatever they want to say in terms of oh, he was a great president. An unhinged president is an unsafe president,” Haley told Hewitt of Trump.
Haley also doubled down on the idea that ensuring Ukraine defeat Russia would mean less war and that the opposite would create a wider conflict.
“I do think that supporting Ukraine with equipment and ammunition is preventing war, because Putin has made it very clear that once he takes Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics are next. Those are NATO countries. That puts us at war. So helping Ukraine win this is preventing war. Israel, that is preventing a terrorist threat. You know, we know Israel is the tip of the spear when it comes to defeating terrorism,” Haley said.
