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Former President Donald J. Trump on Friday appeared to confuse Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi throughout a speech in New Hampshire, accusing Ms. Haley of failing to supply sufficient safety through the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol and connecting her to the House committee that investigated it.
Ms. Haley, the previous governor of South Carolina and a former ambassador to the United Nations, has by no means served in Congress and was working within the personal sector through the Capitol riot.
On Friday night time, Mr. Trump was in the midst of mocking Ms. Haley for the dimensions of the crowds at her occasions, and criticizing the information media, when he pivoted to how he gave a speech in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, that preceded the Capitol assault.
“You know, when she comes right here she will get like 9 folks, and the press by no means stories the crowds,” Mr. Trump stated of Ms. Haley, whose crowds have these days been, on the very least, in double digits.
Then, he modified topics. “You know, by the way in which, they by no means report the group on Jan. 6,” he stated. “You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley.”
Mr. Trump then repeated his frequent declare that the bipartisan House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 assault — together with Mr. Trump’s actions that day — “destroyed all the data, all the proof.”
Then, he claimed that Ms. Haley was in command of safety that day, and that she and others had turned down his supply to ship troops to the Capitol.
“Nikki Haley was in command of safety,” he stated. (She was not.) “We supplied her 10,000 folks, troopers, National Guards, no matter they need. They turned it down. They don’t need to speak about that.”
Mr. Trump, 77, usually assaults President Biden, 81, over his age and means that Mr. Biden is mentally unfit for workplace. “He can’t put two sentences collectively,” Mr. Trump stated on Friday. “Can’t put two sentences collectively. He wants a teleprompter.”
A spokesman for the Trump marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Mr. Trump has incessantly tried to put blame for the Jan. 6 riot with Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats. There is no evidence, nonetheless, that Mr. Trump ever supplied to have troops deployed to the Capitol, or that Ms. Pelosi, then the speaker of the House, rejected him.
At 3:52 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, Ms. Haley reposted images of besieged officers contained in the Capitol, writing on Twitter, “An embarrassment within the eyes of the world and whole disappointment for our nation. Wake up America.”
