Donald Trump indicted: Nikki Haley says ‘it’s time to move beyond’ the ‘endless drama’
Mabinty Quarshie
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Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley called for the public to “move beyond the endless drama and distractions” following the Department of Justice’s historic indictment of former President Donald Trump Thursday evening.
The Justice Department charged Trump on seven counts stemming from accusations that he mishandled classified documents when he left the White House after the 2020 presidential elections. Republicans nationwide decried the indictment as a “weaponization” of the federal agency in a similar manner to Haley.
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“This is not how justice should be pursued in our country,” Haley said Friday in her first public comments on Trump’s legal woes. “The American people are exhausted by the prosecutorial overreach, double standards, and vendetta politics.”
Yet Haley noted that the public, like some Republicans running for president, is itching to move forward in a post-Trump manner. “It’s time to move beyond the endless drama and distractions,” she added.
As a 2024 GOP presidential candidate, Haley has walked a fine line between criticizing Trump’s leadership over the Republican Party and positioning herself as the next standard-bearer of the GOP, as have other candidates.
Fellow 2024 rival Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who has ramped up his own attacks against Trump, tamped down the bitter feud to defend the former president against his most recent legal problems.
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“The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society,” he tweeted in the hours after Trump’s indictment news broke. “We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending upon political affiliation.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence said that while “no one is above the law,” he is “deeply troubled” by the indictment.