- Each Kristi Noem and Nikki Haley gave speeches to a gathering of the RNC the day after the January 6 riot.
- Haley sharply criticized Trump, saying his “actions since Election Day will probably be judged harshly by historical past.”
- However Noem prevented rebuking Trump and informed an attendee that it wasn’t “very smart” for Haley to try this.
As former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley denounced President Donald Trump the day after the January 6 assault on the Capitol, Republican Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota already knew that criticizing Trump wasn’t politically advisable.
That is in line with reporting within the forthcoming ebook “This Will Not Cross: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future” from New York Instances reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.
Haley was considered one of a number of distinguished Republicans who publicly blamed Trump for the assault on the Capitol, telling attendees at a Republican Nationwide Committee assembly in Florida on January 7 that the social gathering “should cease turning the American folks in opposition to one another.”
“President Trump has not at all times chosen the precise phrases,” stated Haley. “He was fallacious along with his phrases in Charlottesville, and I informed him so on the time. He was badly fallacious along with his phrases yesterday. And it wasn’t simply his phrases. His actions since Election Day will probably be judged harshly by historical past.”
She added that “if we’re the social gathering of private accountability, we have to take private accountability.”
However Noem, who additionally spoke on the occasion, selected to not rebuke Trump. And in line with each the ebook and reporting from the New York Instances on the time, Noem’s speech was significantly better acquired by attendees.
And Noem reportedly informed one other attendee that Haley would come to remorse her remarks.
“I do not assume that is very smart,” she informed the unnamed individual. Reached for remark, a spokesman for Noem didn’t dispute the reporting.
Haley was not the one attendee vital of the Republican chief. “I am executed with Trump,” Ohio GOP Chairwoman Jane Timken — now working for Senate — informed an attendee, in line with the ebook.
The previous South Carolina governor would later back-track in her criticism of Trump, even after telling Politico in February of 2021 that Trump “went down a path he should not have” and stated “we won’t let that ever occur once more.”
“We’d like him within the Republican Occasion,” Haley later stated of Trump at a speech on the Nixon Library. “I do not need us to return to the times earlier than Trump.”
