Donald Trump indicted: Nikki Haley says alleged misconduct ‘puts all of our military’ in danger
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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Monday that former President Donald Trump was incredibly “reckless” with his handling of classified documents if the accusations in the Trump indictment are true.
The indictment, unveiled on Friday, laid out 37 counts against Trump that alleged the former president was “personally” involved in the transport of the documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Trump is scheduled to appear in court in Miami on Tuesday.
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“If this indictment is true, if what it says is actually the case, President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security,” Haley said in an appearance on Fox News. “More than that, I’m a military spouse: My husband’s about to deploy this weekend. This puts all of our military men and women in danger.”
Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and ex-ambassador to the United Nations, added that Trump potentially talking “about what our military is capable of or how we would go about invading” with these documents is “frustrating” and “causes problems.”
The presidential candidate has previously spoken out against Trump over the Mar-a-Lago documents, stating on Friday that the public should “move beyond the endless drama and distractions” following the Department of Justice’s indictment of the former president.
Nikki Haley Fox News interview (06/13)
Despite being indicted, it is not likely that the indictment will seriously hurt Trump’s chances of being the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidency. The first polls published following the unsealing of Trump’s federal indictment showed him maintaining or widening his lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and the remainder of the Republican presidential primary field, with 61% of likely Republican voters saying they would vote for Trump if the primary were to be held immediately.
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Vivek Ramaswamy, another candidate in the 2024 Republican primary race, has stated that as president, he would pardon Trump if he is convicted in his federal classified documents case. He has called the other Republicans in the primary race to pledge to do the same.
“That is how we decide who governs this country, not by a federal administrative police state,” Ramaswamy told reporters Tuesday outside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in downtown Miami hours before Trump’s arrest and arraignment.