Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley was left stunned when a fourth-grade student directly criticized her by comparing her to the former U.N. ambassador to former Secretary of State John Kerry.
The young student took Haley off guard during a question-and-answer session.
“Chris Christie thinks that you’re a flip-flopper on Donald Trump issue, and honestly, I agree with him,” the kid said.
“You’re basically the new John Kerry, if you remember John Kerry from 2004, so my question is, how—how can you be—how can you change your opinion on that in just eight years, and will you pardon Donald Trump?”
Haley, who appeared taken aback, acknowledged the student’s engagement.
“I, for one, am very proud of you for coming, and very proud of you for listening, and very proud of you for asking that question,” she said.
“So the first thing I’ll tell you is politics is about distraction, right? And so people like my friend Chris Christie are going to say, ‘she’s a flip-flopper,’ but let’s look at it.”
“What is he saying I’m flip-flopping on? He’s basically saying that I’m not hitting Trump hard enough, right?”
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“The interesting part of this whole situation is anti-Trumpers think I don’t hate him enough and pro-Trumpers think I don’t love him enough.”
Haley also touched on the hypothetical scenario of pardoning Donald Trump.
“I would pardon Trump. And the reason is, first of all, we don’t know what they’re going to find — innocent, guilty, any of that, and we want everybody to be innocent until proven guilty,” Haley explained.
“But the second thing is, if he is found guilty, a leader needs to think about what’s in the best interest of the country,” she said.
“What’s in the best interest of the country is not to have an 80-year-old man sitting in jail, that continues to divide our country.”
“What’s in the best interest of the country would be to pardon him so that we can move on as a country and no longer talk about him.”
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