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Nikki Haley, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for former President Donald Trump, has broken with him.

Haley, who also served as the governor of South Carolina, spoke to Politico in an interview that was published on Friday and said that she regretted following former President Trump.

“We need to acknowledge he let us down,” she said. “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.”

When asked if she spoke to the president about his belief that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him she said “No … When he was talking about that, I didn’t address it.”

“I understand the president. I understand that genuinely, to his core, he believes he was wronged,” she said to Politico reporter Tim Alberta. “This is not him making it up.”

“You have the president of the United States telling everyone that he was cheated, that the voting systems are corrupt, that we’re living in a banana republic where the deep state has rigged this election against him,” Alberta said to her. “Isn’t that dangerous?”

“He believes it,” she said with a smile.

“There’s nothing that you’re ever going to do that’s going to make him feel like he legitimately lost the election,” the former ambassador said. “He’s got a big bully pulpit. He should be responsible with it.”

Haley blamed the former president’s attorneys for doing a “disservice to him” but did not blame Trump himself.

“That would be like you saying that grass is blue and you genuinely believing it. Is it irresponsible that you’re colorblind and you truly believe that?” Haley said.

“But he swore an oath,” Alberta said. “This is the president.”

“He believes he’s following that oath,” she said. “This would be different if he was being deceptive.”

Haley is in the precarious position of having to straddle the line between Trumpism and traditional Republicanism as she eyes a possible 2020 presidential campaign and this interview showed it.

“He deserves the truth. Is he hearing the truth?” she said. “I don’t think certain people around him are telling him the truth.”

But that part of the interview was done in December. At that time she said she believed that when the court cases ended that the president would be on his way. But then the Capitol riot happened.

“President Trump has not always chosen the right words. He was wrong with his words in Charlottesville, and I told him so at the time,” Haley told a Republican National Committee crowd. “He was badly wrong with his words yesterday.”