Nikki Haley: ‘You’re Not Hearing Me Defend’ Trump’s Communication Style

Gov. Nikki Haley, R- S.C., delivers a speech on "Lessons from the New South" during a luncheon at the National Press Club, on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Gov. Nikki Haley, R- S.C., delivers a speech on "Lessons from the New South" during a luncheon at the National Press Club, on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nikki Haley says President Donald Trump has “his communication style,” but the U.N. ambassador says “you’re not hearing me defend that.”

She tells CBS’ “Sunday Morning” that “if there is anything that he communicates in a way that I’m uncomfortable with, I pick up the phone and call him.”

The former South Carolina governor says she doesn’t need to go public about “a private conversation that should happen when I feel it. … and I think it’s one that he’s receptive to when I do.”

Haley also says Trump shouldn’t try to shut down special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. She says “it should go through the process. But they need to do it quickly. For the good of the country, this investigation needs to happen quickly.”

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  1. “I’m not throwing him under the bus, I’m just not pulling him out from under it.”

  2. Dumpy`s communication style is that he cannot read or write . Dumpy tells his tweeter what to tweet .

  3. She says “it should go through the process. But they need to do it quickly. For the good of the country, this investigation needs to happen quickly.”

    Exactly! Just like Whitewater, or Benghazi. Get it over with quickly. For the sake of the country, of course.

  4. Not really hearing you denounce it either.

    It’s all about sucking up to the big baby currently sitting in his Oval Office playpen.

  5. The other way to read that, though, is in exactly the same way that commenters here have said the exact same thing Haley has: “Let’s get the goods on him and get him out of office/in jail as soon as possible.”

    There was a Politico profile on Haley a while back that focused on her appearing loyal to Trump and yet keeping her political distance from him–in hopes, people speculated, of running for some future office as unburdened by Trump’s baggage as possible. Judging by the quotes in this article, this interview with her very much fits in that plan.

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