The $50 million, in accordance with the Occasions, is across the similar quantity that Haley – Trump’s solely remaining high-profile opponent within the Republican main – raised throughout her committees final yr. POLITICO has not independently verified the determine.
It’s the second time in latest days that Haley has used Trump’s mounting authorized charges as a line of assault — a notable escalation because the marketing campaign strikes to her residence state of South Carolina. Final week, she went after the previous president after
a jury ordered him to pay $83.3 million to the author E. Jean Carroll over defamatory remarks he made about her whereas he was president in response to her rape accusation towards him.
“Donald Trump needs to be the presumptive Republican nominee and we’re speaking about $83 million in damages,” Haley
wrote on X within the wake of the decision. “We’re not speaking about fixing the border. We’re not speaking about tackling inflation. America can do higher than Donald Trump and Joe Biden.”
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she said she “completely” trusted the jury’s verdict in that case.
A spokesperson for Trump’s marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Haley has steadily ramped up her assaults towards Trump as the sector has narrowed. With simply the 2 of them remaining, she’s begun extra aggressively specializing in Trump’s authorized baggage. It’s a subject many former main opponents declined to the touch, fearful that the previous president would use it to rally Republican voters behind him.
The previous South Carolina governor has finished it largely in a manner that has side-stepped the specifics of Trump’s dozens of indictments whereas specializing in the distractions they pose.
“Chaos follows him,” she typically says, when requested whether or not the fees or the allegations that Trump incited a riot on the U.S. Capitol ought to disqualify him from returning to the White Home.
