Haley Campaign Press Release - Playbook: Haley Hits Donald "Bone Spurs" Trump for Insulting Military Families

CHARLESTON, S.C. — In an exclusive interview with Politico's Playbook Nikki Haley excoriated Donald Trump for insulting military families for the umpteenth time and questioned his avoidance of military service by claiming he had "bone spurs."

Haley said: "Military families go through a lot, and the fact that Donald Trump's never even got near a military uniform, he's never had that experience, never known what it's like, goes to show why he continues to call them suckers and losers."

Read the whole interview here or below:

Let's start with Haley: The former South Carolina governor and Trump's one-time UN ambassador unsurprisingly sounded off about her former boss cheering VLADIMIR PUTIN at the expense of U.S. allies.

"That should send a chill up everyone's spine," she said, chatting shortly before the big game yesterday from South Carolina.

The problem isn't just that it's "wrong"and that Trump is "lacking moral clarity," she continued. "It's the kind of comment that makes JOE BIDEN look clear-headed," she added.

That's right — just days after special counsel ROBERT HUR put Biden's mental faculties in the spotlight, Haley said Trump's Saturday tirade exposed his own delirious instincts.

"This is what makes Joe Biden look sane," she said.

Haley also hit back at Trump for questioning her husband's absence from the campaign trail, mocking the fact Trump dodged the Vietnam draft by claiming to have "bone spurs." (MICHAEL HALEY, a major in the South Carolina Army National Guard, is currently deployed to the Horn of Africa.)

"Military families go through a lot," she said. "And the fact that Donald Trump's never even got near a military uniform, he's never had that experience, never known what it's like, goes to show why he continues to call them suckers and losers."

Her reaction quickly turned to anger — not just at Trump, but at others in the GOP who have said nothing to push back against the former president's weekend screed.

"Why is there silence from the Republican Party?" she asked. "Like, where is everybody? … Where are the Republicans in defense of our men and women in uniform that sacrifice for us and protect our country?"