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?”
