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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4773444" data-attributes="member: 48469"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/nikki-haley-donald-trump-gop/index.html" target="_blank">Nikki Haley criticizes Trump and says he has no future in the GOP</a>&quot;Former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley directly criticized former President Donald Trump for his <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-impeachment-defense-senate-trial/index.html" target="_blank">involvement stoking the US Capitol riot</a> in a new interview, a notable condemnation from someone who is widely viewed as harboring presidential hopes in a party that is still in thrall to Trump.&quot;&quot;We need to acknowledge he let us down,&quot; she told<a href="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/magazine-nikki-haleys-choice/?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000014e-f109-dd93-ad7f-f90dc3060000&amp;nlid=630318" target="_blank"> Politico</a> magazine in an interview published Friday. &quot;He went down a path he shouldn&#039;t have, and we shouldn&#039;t have followed him, and we shouldn&#039;t have listened to him. And we can&#039;t let that ever happen again.&quot;&quot;In the Politico piece, Haley expressed anger over Trump&#039;s treatment of former Vice President Mike Pence on January 6 and said she hasn&#039;t spoken with Trump since then. Trump <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/mike-pence-trump-electoral-college/index.html" target="_blank">attacked Pence on Twitter </a>that day for doing his duty of presiding over Congress&#039; counting of the Electoral College votes, as the mob of supporters broke into the Capitol hoping to stop the certification, some of whom chanted death threats against Pence.&quot;When I tell you I&#039;m angry, it&#039;s an understatement,&quot; Haley told Politico. &quot;Mike has been nothing but loyal to that man. He&#039;s been nothing but a good friend of that man. ... I am so disappointed in the fact that [despite] the loyalty and friendship he had with Mike Pence, that he would do that to him. Like, I&#039;m disgusted by it.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4773444, member: 48469"] [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/nikki-haley-donald-trump-gop/index.html']Nikki Haley criticizes Trump and says he has no future in the GOP[/URL] "Former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley directly criticized former President Donald Trump for his [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-impeachment-defense-senate-trial/index.html']involvement stoking the US Capitol riot[/URL] in a new interview, a notable condemnation from someone who is widely viewed as harboring presidential hopes in a party that is still in thrall to Trump." "We need to acknowledge he let us down," she told[URL='https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/magazine-nikki-haleys-choice/?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f109-dd93-ad7f-f90dc3060000&nlid=630318'] Politico[/URL] magazine 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." "In the Politico piece, Haley expressed anger over Trump's treatment of former Vice President Mike Pence on January 6 and said she hasn't spoken with Trump since then. Trump [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/mike-pence-trump-electoral-college/index.html']attacked Pence on Twitter [/URL]that day for doing his duty of presiding over Congress' counting of the Electoral College votes, as the mob of supporters broke into the Capitol hoping to stop the certification, some of whom chanted death threats against Pence. "When I tell you I'm angry, it's an understatement," Haley told Politico. "Mike has been nothing but loyal to that man. He's been nothing but a good friend of that man. ... I am so disappointed in the fact that [despite] the loyalty and friendship he had with Mike Pence, that he would do that to him. Like, I'm disgusted by it." [/QUOTE]

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