Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she is getting Trump fatigue now that her former boss and rival, Donald Trump, has been indicted for the third time.
Trump’s legal troubles are particularly frustrating for his GOP rivals because they consume all of the oxygen in the room and keep attention from focusing on important issues.
“Unlike the other candidates, I didn’t rush out with a statement yesterday on Trump’s indictment for one simple reason: Like most Americans, I’m tired of commenting on every Trump drama. I’ve lost track of whether this indictment is the third or fourth or the fifth,” Haley said following Trump’s latest indictment, during an appearance on Good Morning New Hampshire. “We should be focusing on how to stop China.”
Haley added. “We should be focusing on how to close the border. We need to be reversing Bidenomics. Putting a 77-year-old former president in prison doesn’t do any of that. We’ve got to move on already.”
Nikki Haley: Trump Deserves Responsibility for Jan. 6 Riot
When asked about Donald Trump’s behavior on Jan. 6, 2021, Haley noted that Trump bears responsibility for what happened that day.
“Trump didn’t attack the Capitol. It’s not a crime to say that you think an election was stolen. He should not be prosecuted for that,” Haley said. “I think the Justice Department has become way too political.”
She continued, “We see that with how they’re letting Biden off and how hard they’re coming on Trump. And I think that’s the reason we need to talk about it. So, I hope that’s what we’re talking about when we think about how we go forward. We need to get our country back on track. That’s the focus.”
DeSantis, Competitors, Join Haley in Attacking Trump Indictment Sideshow
She is not alone among Republican contenders.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis joined Haley in attacking the Trump indictment sideshow and called it a distraction from the real issues.
“If that is the choice, we are going to win and we are going to win across the country,” DeSantis told reporters Saturday after a campaign stop in northern Iowa. “If the election is a referendum on other things that are not forward-looking, then I’m afraid Republicans will lose.”
DeSantis departed from Trump in arguing his claims the 2020 election was stolen is “unsubstantiated.”
Longshot contender and former Texas Rep. Will Hurd accused the former president of running for another term in a bid to avoid jail.
“Let me be crystal clear: Trump’s presidential bid is driven by an attempt to stay out of prison and scam his supporters into footing his legal bills,” Hurd said. “Furthermore, his denial of the 2020 election results and actions on January 6 show he’s unfit for office.”
Hurd continued: “As Republicans, we need to prioritize offering solutions to difficult issues affecting all Americans … if we make the upcoming election about Trump, we are giving Joe Biden another four years in the White House.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who strongly diverged from his former running mate on January 6, noted that his actions that day were reason enough that Trump should not become president again.
Pence called the indictment “an important reminder [that] anyone who puts himself over the constitution should never be president of the United States”.
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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