Haley Campaign Press Release - Haley on Fox: Trump Doesn't Understand Military Service

LAURENS, S.C. – This morning, Nikki Haley spoke with Fox News about Donald Trump's unhinged comments mocking military families and pointed out that Trump doesn't understand the sacrifice service members make because "the closest he's come to harm's way is a golf ball hitting him on a golf cart."

Haley also criticized Trump's dangerous comments about NATO, highlighting that every time Trump veers off the teleprompter, chaos ensues.

On Trump avoiding military service and mocking veterans:

It's disgusting. I mean every bit of it's disgusting. You know to sit there and mock my husband for not being with me on the presidential trail because he is deployed and serving our country.

You mock one veteran, you're mocking all veterans. But this is a pattern, Dana. He's done this over and over again. Whether he went and called military members suckers, whether he was at Arlington Cemetery saying, 'What was in it for them? Why would they do this'? The problem with Trump is he's never been anywhere near a uniform. He apparently had some sort of foot reason that he says he couldn't do that, but the reality is, the closest he's come to harm's way is a golf ball hitting him on a golf cart."

On Trump's reckless words about NATO:

"You look at Trump, he goes off script from a teleprompter for two minutes, and he criticizes the military, mocks my husband, but he also goes and takes the side of Putin in NATO and says that he would actually encourage Putin to invade our allies. This is what you're getting. We can do better than two 80 year olds running for president. We need a new generational leader that will go eight years disciplined, focused, without the rhetoric, without the chaos, and go forward.

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"The NATO countries should pay their fair share, but let's not mistake the fact that when he said that, he put every military member in danger. He put every country in danger. Russia has never invaded a NATO country. That alliance is rock solid. It's a success story for 75 years. We want them to pay more, and we should do that. But the last thing you do is side with a guy who kills his opponents, side with a guy who has imprisoned Evan Gershkovich because he was a journalist, side with a guy who's made no beef about the fact that he wants to destroy America and you're gonna side with a thug like that? What are we doing in America? And that's because he went off script. That's because they took him off the teleprompter. That's what you're gonna get is unhinged chaos and that only makes Joe Biden sound sane. And so when you get Donald Trump making Joe Biden sound sane it's more of the reason why Donald Trump can't defeat Joe Biden."