Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Tuesday said she was not backing down from her prior condemnation of President Donald Trump’s equivocation about neo-Nazi protesters in Charlottesville in 2017, despite having offered a defense on the state of racism in America at Trump's convention the prior night.
“It’s now fashionable to say that America is racist. That is a lie,” Haley said on the first night of the Republican National Convention, during which she spoke about her own family's past experience with discrimination. “America is not a racist country.”
The speech was an attempt to counter Democrats who have campaigned on combating systemic racism in sectors from housing to health care to law enforcement.
But while Democrats have accused Trump of exacerbating racial tensions after a spate of police killings of unarmed Black Americans, Haley rejected what she said was a media-driven narrative that Trump is a “bad person.”
“There have been times where, you know, the president and I don't agree on necessarily on the style, but — and he's not the most politically correct person,” Haley told “Good Morning America” host George Stephanopoulos of how she squares her condemnation of Trump’s Charlottesville comments.
“Everybody knows that but whenever I saw something, I would talk to him about it and he would always listen and he would always work towards improving, and I think that's what we have to understand is at the end of the day. The man that I knew in the White House was someone who genuinely cared about the American people,” she said.
In her recent memoir, Haley recounted how “deeply disturbed” she was by Trump claiming that there were “very fine people” on both sides of the white supremacist protest in Charlottesville that saw a counterprotester get killed.
"A leader's words matter in these situations. And the president's words had been hurtful and dangerous,” Haley wrote that she told the president at the time, lamenting that Trump’s “moral clarity” from the day before when he had denounced the KKK and neo-Nazis had disappeared.
Haley insisted she stood by those sentiments still, telling Stephanopoulos she was encouraged by signs that Trump was willing to grow and improve himself, and that at his core “he cared about the status of all people.”
Haley is one of the few members of Trump’s administration to leave her post on good terms with the president despite some publicized disagreements with the commander in chief.
She was one of a handful of speakers on the opening night of the convention to try and burnish Trump's standing with minority voters. Haley is also widely viewed as a top presidential contender in 2024.
Still, when first asked what Trump has done to heal the racial reckoning taking place, Haley initially dodged the question and reiterated her view that America is “a work in progress” but not entrenched in racism.
“You know, if you look at the fact that, you know, we were able to fight a civil war and slavery, we got through the segregation system. We had an African American president. We have an African American female vice presidential candidate, so we are continuing to get better. But we have to always keep improving,” she added.
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