2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she trusts the jury’s decision in former president Donald Trump’s defamation case, but disagrees with any suggestion that the verdict illustrates he shouldn’t be allowed to run.
While appearing on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” Sunday, Haley was asked about Friday’s verdict in writer E. Jean Carroll’s case against Trump. A New York jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll an additional $83.3 million for defaming her by attacking and and calling her sexual assault allegation against him a lie.
“Let me just ask you on the substance of the jury’s ruling — should that be disqualifying to be president?” host Kristen Welker asked Haley about her opponent.
“I think the American people decide who should be disqualifying,” the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador responded in part.
Welker then followed up, asking: “What is unique about this case is that the jury has now ruled they have found him liable of sexual abuse. Do you not trust the jury and their findings, ambassador?”
“I absolutely trust the jury, and I think that they made their decision based on the evidence,” Haley said. “I just don’t think that should take him off the ballot. I think the American people will take him off the ballot. I think that’s the best way to go forward is not let him play the victim; let him play the loser. That’s what we want him to do at the end of the day.”
