Former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley appeared on Meet the Press this weekend and was asked about the situation in Ukraine.
Host Chuck Todd tried to goad her into badmouthing Trump but she got the better of him.
She correctly pointed out that this would not have happened on Trump’s watch.
Townhall reports:
Russia’s Invasion into Ukraine ‘Never Would Have Happened Under Trump’
Former South Carolina governor and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in an interview on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine “never would have happened” under former President Donald Trump.
Haley made the remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” In the interview, Haley described Putin as an “evil tyrant” and
“What I will tell you about President Trump is as much as everybody wants to talk about what he says, what I look at is what he did. He sanctioned Russia. He expelled diplomats. He shut off Nord Stream 2, which is all Putin ever wanted. He built up our military and he made us energy independent. All of those things countered Putin and countered Russia. This never would have happened under Trump. What we have to look at now is how we make sure this doesn’t go further under Biden,” Haley said in the segment.
Haley continued, calling Russia’s invasion into Ukraine a “terrible mistake” that started with our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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“We’ve done nothing but show weakness,” Haley added. “We have got to show strength.
Here’s the video:
America needs to wake up and stop letting tyrants like Putin and Xi run all over us.
I discuss: pic.twitter.com/bnCydWgVEr
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) March 6, 2022
Haley makes the point extremely well.
You have to look at Trump’s actions. Unlike Biden, He did all the right things with Russia.
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