It is noted that Nikki Haley fired back at former President Donald Trump for mocking her husband, Michael Haley, who is absent from the Haley campaign trail because he is currently deployed in Africa.
It has come to light that during a rally in South Carolina over the weekend, Trump failed to get much of a reaction in Haley’s home state of South Carolina when he repeatedly shouted, “What happened to her husband?”
“She comes over to see me at Mar-A-Lago. ‘Sir, I will never run against you,’” Trump told the crowd. “She brought her husband. Where’s her husband? Oh, he’s away. He’s away. What happened to her husband? What happened to her husband?! Where is he?! He’s gone. He knew. He knew.”
Michael Haley currently serves in the National Guard and is deployed in Africa, which did not keep him from hitting back at Trump with a meme mocking his “leadership.” Senator Marco Rubio was asked about this on CNN’s State of the Union and failed to condemn Trump for criticizing those in service to the country.
Dana Perino played the clip of Trump insulting Haley’s husband and Rubio’s soft answer and asked for the former SC governor and UN ambassador under Trump to react.
“It’s disgusting!” Haley replied. “I mean, every bit of it’s disgusting, you know, to sit there and mock my husband for not being with me on the presidential trail because he is deployed and serving our country.”
“You mock one veteran, you’re mocking all veterans,” she continued. “But this is a pattern, Dana. He’s done this over and over again. Whether he went and called military members suckers, whether he was at Arlington Cemetery saying what was in it for them, why would they do this? The problem with Trump is he’s never been anywhere near a uniform.”
She then mocked Trump for avoiding combat when he was eligible over an alleged “bone spurs” issue that Trump’s critics have long used for derision.
