Nikki Haley accused ‘the liberal media’ of wanting to ‘stoke a nonstop Republican civil war’ by requiring that ‘everyone pick sides about Donald Trump’ as part of a ‘strategy to pit conservatives against one another.’
Haley made the accusations in an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal just days after she gave an interview to Politico in which she criticized Trump, saying he ‘let us down’ and that he ‘went down a path he shouldn’t have.’
The comments were the latest sign that Haley is positioning herself to make a run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.
But her political fortunes could rest on her ability to navigate a delicate tightrope given that Trump remains by far the most popular Republican while a majority of the American electorate views him as unelectable.
Haley, the former governor of South Carolina who served in the Trump administration as the American ambassador to the United Nations, accused the press of fomenting strife within the Republican Party.
‘The media playbook starts with the demand that everyone pick sides about Donald Trump - either love or hate everything about him,’ she wrote in the Journal on Wednesday.
‘The moment anyone on the right offers the slightest criticism of the 45th president, the media goes berserk: Republicans are trying to have it both ways!’
‘It’s a calculated strategy to pit conservatives against one another,’ Haley wrote.
‘It’s also a ridiculous false choice. Real life is never that simple. Someone can do both good and bad things.’
Haley said that while Trump deserves credit for his achievements including the coronavirus vaccine and his foreign policy accomplishments in the Middle East, he also deserves criticism for the events of January 6.
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