“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.”
