Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley insisted Thursday night that “in America, our political opponents are not evil,” a sharp rhetorical break from her boss, President Donald Trump, who has labeled Democrats as “evil,” crime-loving and unwilling to defend the nation.
Addressing the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York, Haley said that the “toxic political environment” has prompted both sides of the aisle to “describe their opponents as enemies or evil.”
“In America, our political opponents are not evil,” she said, highlighting atrocities committed against political opponents in Syria and Sudan as examples of true evil permeating the world of politics.
Haley’s statement was an apparent rebuke of language used by Trump on the campaign trail in recent weeks, especially in the wake of the contentious confirmation battle over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
During an address at a law enforcement conference earlier this month, Trump said that sexual assault allegations brought against Kavanaugh “was a disgraceful situation, brought about by people that are evil, and he toughed it out.” The president was later asked whether he should call Americans evil, to which he replied, “I know fellow Americans that are evil … I’ve known some fellow Americans that are pretty evil.”
And at a campaign rally last week in Iowa, Trump labeled Democrats who opposed Kavanaugh’s confirmation “really evil people” who “want to destroy people.” At other campaign stops, the president has often suggested Democrats are “the party of crime” and labeled the press “the enemy of the people.”
Thursday evening, at a rally in Montana, Trump praised GOP Rep. Greg Gianforte, for assaulting Guardian journalist Ben Jacobs last year. The president jokingly warned to “never wrestle” Gianforte and told the crowd that “any guy who can do a body slam is my kind of guy.”
But Haley, in her Thursday night speech, said she has seen “true evil” during her time as U.N. ambassador.
“In South Sudan, where rape is routinely used as a weapon of war, that is evil,” she said. “In Syria, where the dictator uses chemicals weapons to murder innocent children, that is evil. In North Korea, where American student Otto Warmbier was tortured to death, that was evil.”
Trump has spoken warmly in recent months of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with whom he has begun denuclearization talks. Kim’s regime has been accused of massive human rights violations, including operating concentration camps for political prisoners and severe repression of human rights.
source: politico.com
I fully agree with President Trump. In America, the left has become the mob party. And the mob is evil. If Haley wants to split hairs, saying that true evil is elsewhere, everyone knows there are degrees of evil, and that’s all there is to it. But the left has been wildly evil for a long time now.
Evil is in the white house
No one is “the mob” party..this is Rhetorically Trump propaganda..
““In America, our political opponents are not evil,” she said, highlighting atrocities committed against political opponents in Syria and Sudan as examples of true evil permeating the world of politics.”
Exactly what does she think of the “evil” perpetrated upon Justice Kavanaugh during the confirmation process? Does she think the Dems were being civil or loving towards him?
In a nutshell, here is the whole point: Haley did a good job while she was at the UN but now that she has resigned, she is showing the side that she showed while she was Governor on SC. The SWAMP side! You can take the politician out of the SWAMP, but you can’t take the SWAMP out of the politician. I hope everyone remembers this when she decides to throw her hat in the ring in 2020. I would not be the least surprised if she comes out with some epic accusation towards Trump just prior to the mid-term Elections. It is what the SWAMP does!
Agree
Oh yes the left is evil! If you don’t call anarchy, prohibiting another person’s opinion if it isn’t the same as yours, and beating that person to a pulp, shooting them, harassing them, and doing everything in their power to stifle the other side evil, then what is?!
Nikki Haley has just become one of those women you can’t help but respect…As I sat and watched her many times on the news, at meeting with orange man… I could see on her face the pain, disbelief of the words coming out of orange man’s mouth… He had led her to believe what she was saying was the truth… Then he spoke and was the opposite of her convictions…orange man left her out there in left field…I am happy to see she has left the White House… She did a terrific job in my mind…And now she is her own woman and more power to her… I could tell that day with orange man telling she was leaving, I knew it was for a better life and away from him…
Another bitter and “going evil” liberal democrat. Please wallow in your own crap and leave “we Patriots” out of it.
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No bias there…
Well I guess if you want to be a name caller I will join in and label you a dumb ass, since you see m to be a bitter person, who can not accept the truth. The DEMONrats are nothing but EVIL nowadays. Just becasue they lost an election that promised you a NWO of socialism and crime.
President Trump has improved our economy, it is booming! He has the lowest unemployment rate since 1959, we now have the lowest Black unemployment EVER! His GDP is 4%, highest ever, BO, less than 3%, was the lowest ever! President Trump’s tax plan has saved tax payers thousands, that alone is why most people who know the difference between Socialism and a Republic love him! President Trump is actually doing something about the millions of illegals in this country who do NOT BELONG HERE! They are ILLEGAL, unlike Democrats, ILLEGAL MEANS AGAINST OUR LAW! Where do you think all these new diseases and bugs are coming from? My son did his residency at Loma Linda in CA. He told me these illegal’s are bringing in diseases never heard of in America, and there is no treatment to date. Would you like your child to catch the paralytic disease that is like polio that is spreading like wild fire on the East Coast, of which, there is no cure? The only reason you Democrats want these illegals here is to vote D, illegally because that is the only chance you have of winning. The vast majority of Americans are on Trump’s Train. Just because you Anarchist scream, destroy, intimidate, and try to kill anyone with an opposing view does not make you the majority, or even change anyone’s mind to vote for your candidate. The intelligent, Christian, Patriots who follow our Constitution, who do not want Communism/Socialism taking over this county, who do not want treasonous, Deep State back in power will not vote D, voting D is voting for the Devil, or Communism, same thing! As far as Nikki Haley goes, I have heard her stand up for President Trump, especially when the laughter broke out at the U.N. when he was speaking. She was clear that the laughter was WITH our President, not against him!!! She went on to say these people were amazed at President Trump’s excellent leadership so far, and after the speech, they flooded the stage just to shake his hand and have their photo taken with him. That was Nikki Haley SPEAKING, not what some media source twisted to make it look as if Nikki Haley was against our President. She left because she has been in the government 24/7 for years, first as Governor, which took all her time and time away from family, to U.N. Ambassador, she needs a break. That is the reason she quit, and nothing more. Stop with defending the most evil REGIME in the history of the United States, the BO REGIME, we are thrilled with President Trump, his excellent negotiation skills which led to the dismantling of nukes in N. Korea aimed at us, that led to the release of three hostages, and one in Turkey, and that had the leader of N. Korea send American Soldiers killed in the Korean War BACK to the U.S. so their families can finally have closure! No one in their RIGHT mind, who is a Christian, a Patriot, who reveres our Founding Fathers, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights will EVER vote D again, because the D is no long Democrat, it has changed to the Democratic Socialist of America and we do not want our country to end up like Venezuela, North Korea, OR Cuba! Why not go there yourselves instead of trying to change our Republic into another country ruled by a few who torture, starve, and murder anyone who speaks a word against them. You leftist don’t know anything about the evils of Socialism and Communism, but had Killary been elected, we probably wouldn’t be able to voice our opinions any longer without the “Police” pounding on our doors and dragging us out of our homes, never to be seen again. You D’s should start calling your party the DSA. D is misleading, you are nothing like the old Blue Dog or JFK Dems, those voters have come to the right because of the drastic changes, plus legal abortion, you people believe in.
I stand buy the President 100% The President has been right on every thing he has done!! An what he wants to do, close our borders, build wall to stop invasion,Deport all illegals,and make sure the evil Democrats never have Power again,they want to destroy our Country!!!
Couldn’t agree more Phyllis. Only the Ignorant and vile, vulgar, vitriolic, demon possessed would want to go back to the Demonic Deep State, who committed one treasonous act after the other.
The NY bookstore holding a Satanic event to put curse in Justice Kavanaugh is certainly an EVIL act…
Would the individuals who are calling upon forces of evil to perform evil and cause evil upon another be considered evil ?
Sorry, Nikki, but I can only cosider as EVIL a political party that has embraced abortion, homosexuality and socialism!
How many days does it take to review a comment???
What about abortion in the U.S. and supported and promoted by Democrats. Is not the killing of innocent babies in the womb evil, Haley?
Trump cranked up the rhetoric in a violent way. I have to suspect anyone who aligns with trump sgmgares his lack of values and low character. There’s no excuses for his behavior as he incites violence and hate. He creates domestic disharmony
Trump is just responding to the violence of the (used to be Democrats) who are so programmed they have no idea they are now Communist working against Americans for One World Order, after America becomes a third world country. Remember Obama’s fundamental change of America? Do a little research
I agree with you, Joan!
Please remove me from this mailing list. I don’t know how I got on it and I don’t wish to be associated with today’s “conservative” politics. They have become toxic
As have the evil liberals.
Anyone who watched the Kavanaugh Circus cannot deny that the left demonstrated as close to evil as you can get without actually wielding the knife and disemboweling a man with absolutely NO evidence. It reminds me of my youth when I didn’t get my way and in true southern style ” pitched a Hissy Fit” and Mother reminded me that she was the adult in the room and I would do as she said ” Because she said so” and when I grew up and demonstrated adult characteristics I could rejoin the Family.
She is a liberal war monger. Never understood why President Trump hired her, she always bad mouthed him. Good riddance!
Josie,she is not warmonger,on contrary she is the best ambassador the U:S:A. ever had. You are,like the others dems to war mongering with your poisonning language.
I agree with President Trump that democrats are evil. Any one that will bring fraudulent charges against a good man is evil. When they bring these false charges of rape or sexual misconduct that will ruin a man’s good name that is evil. When they started going after his young daughters & his wife that is evil. I can’t call it anything else. Especially when they do it against other political opponents, because the fraud seems to work. They pulled that once too often with Kavanaugh. After it worked on judge Roy Moore. What would thou call it? It may be to a lesser degree than what they do in the middle east, but it is still evil. That seems to be the democrats favorite trick during elections.
Quit threatening—DO IT—CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER TO KEEP OUR CITIZENS SAFE!! Use the military if need be. They protect citizens in foreign countries—what”s wrong with protecting us?!?!???
AMEN❣️ WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR ⁉️⁉️⁉️ I’ve tried to explain to others that I have Friends from other countries, but ALL are here LEGALLY❣️AND, that MANY coming/slipping thru are not just Mexican…it’s a perfect place for EASTERNERS & other THREATS to take advantage of those that think “””ALL’S WELL”””‼️‼️ Even from Friends working to keep their own & just the family they have here legally, are supporting the laws of ENTRY the LEGAL WAY & becoming an AMERICAN & WORKING instead of TAKING what AMERICA is GIVING AWAY instead of taking care of OUR OWN & ELDERLY❣️These same Legal Americans also say MANY Mexicans came thru with children that were LEFT BEHIND as they were deported, ran back, or in jail. THEY PUT THEIR CHILDREN IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES & Should have considered all that before risking their little lives to begin with❣️
Haley is just showing her true RINO colors as she was as Governor.
She wants to position herself for 2024!!! NOTHING to see here!
She is not Constitutionally eligible to be president,
just like Rubio, Cruz, Jindal and a couple of others.
Position herself for what? She can’t run for President as she is not a Natural Born Citizen
So you think the dems have gotten to Haley too, huh? Well that’s a real possibility. But she definitely needs to understand that what President Trump said about evil is 100% true. And there is a lot of it here in the USA.
There are two extremes at war (darkness and light) and every individual is on one of these two sides.
Side 1] Every person exists in an environment of “Satan’s Evil World” (Satan’s dominion) that desires a lifestyle of wealth, power, fame, luxury and instant gratification from lust and desires of: uninhibited immorality involving sex and orgies, drunkenness of alcohol or drugs; idolatry and cults; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy. [I say those who Booed God off and out of the DNC platform and party in 2012 and 2016 reside here.]
Side 2] Are Godly individuals [existing within that dark, sinful environment] who have recognized and choose to repent from that lifestyle and accepted the Biblical Gospel of Salvation. From that instant, they grow in Godly righteousness that produces love, joy, peace, tolerant restraint, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Those individuals are now of God’s eternal kingdom while they still exist in [and may be continually attacked and tempted by] Satan’s Dominion until they die [graduate to heaven]. They are in this world but not of it.
. While the transition into God’s kingdom is instantaneous and permanent, each person’s metamorphism into God-likeness is unique, may never be recognized by others, and none will be completed while on earth.
. Many recognize, see and are interested in leaving Satan’s dark evil dominion to enjoy a Godly life still choose to not accept the free-gift of a permanent transition into God’s kingdom (the Biblical Gospel of Eternal Salvation) and, without accepting that gift, will be separated from God (but not His love and desire to forgive) for all of eternity.
. No person can ever judge another person’s heart and can only guess about another’s eternal destination. However, each person should have the 100% confidence (as Biblical believer do) if they do have the Biblical Eternal Salvation of God.
. To which battle team do you belong?
I don’t know, it’s not Trump, I call them evil because of the things their doing, for instance. The Drug Gangs and/or Drug Cartels that are making all the problems in Central America, why people are fleeing. Their #1 Illegal Drug their importing and their making all their money on, like 53% is Marijuana. They’re making their money off the black market.
Whose the ones pushing for legalization of Dope everywhere, it’s like all Liberals, they don’t care where it came from as long as the addicts can get it the cheapest they can. Single handily the Democrat party or the Liberals like in Canada are destroying the western Hemisphere for Dope
Especially, with the youth….If the populace are Stoned lifelong, they will be more susceptible to be naive, and easier to be led by corrupt politicians(at this point mostly Dems.).
That’s her opinion, there is no way you can be friends with rotten ass communist and Soros and Hillary and Pelosi saying if they win there is collateral damage!
Exactly, out political opponents are now the operable communist party in this country.
You’ve got that right, Bro. Anyone who wants to turn the country for which we fought into a satrap of the new caliphate or a part of their great global ant nest is our enemy. McLame lost me in 2008 when he said that Obama, who wanted to steal everything Americans had worked for and earned into feed for his domestic parasites (both corporate and individual) and capital for his globalist cronies, was NOT an enemy but just an opponent. Perhaps to the PC politicians politics is just a game but to the American people it’s our and our progeny’s futures with which they’re playing. Let’s drop the PC BS and call those who would steal our individual rights, liberties and property what they are. Semper Fi!!
I agree with you Howard 1 million percent! No need to worry about the democratic defeat next month. It’s a given! They will lose the House and Senate like they have never lost before come next month! The Republicans will mop the floor with them! They are due for a lesson in civility and fair play. They will be taught just that when they will once again be on the loosing end! There mob rule and impeachment mentality will finally give them a rude awakening in the midterms! For there losses they can thank Soros, Hillary, Pelosi, Feinstein, Booker, and Blumenthal. May they never gain power ever again!
Hillary’s comment that the Republicans are working to destroy our Democracy (when it is plainly the other way around), so the only way to have civility is for the Democrats to get control of the House or Senate. In other words, the Democrats/Communists/Socialists will continue their evil deeds until they get their power back. That should be ample proof to all voters that a vote for any Democrat is a vote to continue the hate and incivility that fills our nation. The sad thing about it is that many of the evil doers believe what they hear on the MSM and think they are doing the right thing.
I thought that I liked Haley, but if she doesn’t believe the Dems are evil, then I have to question her common sense!!!!
Trump is doing a great job and is not afraid to do the right thing.
There are different degrees of evil Ms. Haley. Trump does NOT what the evil we are experiencing with Blum, ANTIFA and Soros funded groups to bring us to the point of the evil YOU witnessed during your tenure as Ambassador. Could Ms. Haley have two faces?????
You have to call out evil when it exists. Unlimited abortion supported by democrats and “planned parenthood” is truly evil.
Typing errors here: TRUMP does NOT WANT the evil…. and “…EXPERIENCING WITH BLM….”
I agree with Trump partially. There are among the liberals, groups that are not actively promoting political policies. They are just trying to tear the country down. They want more illegals in because they can get some registered to vote and they vote almost 100 percent for socialist policies that have destroyed the countries they have lived in before coming here.
Through the people they have placed in our colleges they have convinced many of our youth that socialism works when in reality experience tells us that is not true.
They have also convinced many of those same young people that the US has been a terrible country. Anyone who knows anything about history knows this is not true.
The US has saved the world more than once from global tyranny. This country has also produced the majority of inventions and technology to elevate many people out of starvation and squalor.
We have been a beacon for freedom. We have taken in millions from dictatorships and integrated them into our society.
Talk to anyone who fled Hungary in the 50’s or Cuba in the 60’s.
It’s not President Trump who thinks his political opponents are evil it’s the democrats. They have been screaming that since they found out he was running against their evil corrupt candidate Hillary.
Sorry Nikki but evidently you don’t know evil when it bites you in the ass. That is exactly the times we are living in right now, and you better pray that good wins over evil.
The democrats are now the communist party… Obama was an evil president…
His social security number is a fraud…
His wife is a man….
Rules for Radicals was dedicated to satan
Written by Bill Ayers…that’s where Obama launched his campaign from. EVIL
And I believe Bill Ayers used the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (t’s online, read it),
to write his BS Rules for Radicals to the fools of the world.
She is as arrogant a person as I have ever seen. I cursed the day President Trump appointed her as U. N. ambassador. I was thoroughly surprised that she did do a good job as ambassador but her back biting is no surprise. I would never vote for this First generation American for any reason whatsoever. May she Rot somewhere.
Now I understand why I sensed that she couldn’t be trusted!
I guess it all depends on your ‘personal’ definition of “evil”. I personally found the democrat ACTIONS at the Kavanaugh hearing VERY evil. Just a SIMPLE review of the “intent”, I believe, can lead to NO OTHER conclusion. This was CONCERTED effort to “destroy” the man rather than attack his qualifications. Any RATIONAL review of the circumstances NEGATES any criminal action. The ONLY sustainable FACT was “who” and this was a he said/she said standoff. WHEN, WHERE and WHY were UNKNOWN and the plaintiff’s OWN witnesses DENIED the accusation. While Justice Kavanaugh was subjected to BRUTAL questioning and treatment, Ms Ford was granted the utmost respect WITH NO REFERENCE to her “past” history or the FACT that her entire support structure was DEMOCRAT sponsored and funded. The democrat wish to AVOID an additional CONSTITUTIONIST on the Supreme Court (at any cost) was an OBVIOUS FACT!!
#gaysfortrump
Politico is inacuareate in painting a picture of enmity between Haley and “her boss”.
She did her job very well and I want to see her Run for President in 2024. She’ll be the perfect madam President and her hundand won’t be walking the halls of the White House looking for young girls.
I hope HRC does Run again.
Serves the Dem right to lose again and again and again.
TRUMP2020
Haley is not Constitutionally eligible, just like
Rubio, Cruz, Jindal and some others.
Well it appears that Ms Haley might just be another Liberal in a Republican Skin, How can she think that the Left isn’t full of Evil?? Especially with all the Violence and Destruction these People are doing, They’re EVIL Attacking Innocent People so maybe Ms Haley should OPEN her EYES!
I think some of today’s democrats are evil. Americans on both sides have always refer to communist and Marxist leaders from other countries as evil and now these same democrats are trying to turn our country in to a socialist nation and destroying our country along the way. The destroy people and institutions and even our history along the way.
Now that you have used Trump for your own Personal Preferences, Like everyone else, YOU body slam your
previous Boss. Haley, I always knew you had and Agenda, interesting to know where you will end up.
Now that your FREE from the boss, how about going back to your roots in India where you will get a good job
It used to be that political opponents were not evil. Today things are different. Today the vitriolic behavior of the left – our opponents – is EVIL. Yelling at someone in a public restaurant is uncivilized behavior. Attacking someone because they don’t think like you is uncivilized behavior. Uncivilized behavior from people, who are supposed to be civilized, is EVIL!
“Evil”, as a descriptive word is a matter of personal perspective and related, directly, to what an individual has been exposed to in their lifetime; what is evil, to me, may not seem evil to you, or the next person, or vice-versa. What is evil, to you, may not seem evil to me, or the next person. I think we can all agree that some words and actions can, certainly be, more evil than others.
I would suggest that she look up the definition of evil and, then, explain to all of us how the way the Dems have been carrying on is not profoundly immoral and malevolent.
Maybe Haley has to be spat on, as was done to Senator Lindsey Graham, or sucker punched, resulting in a concussion, as happened to Steve Mekeland, Republican candidate for the Minnesota state legislature, or chased out of a restaurant by a yelling mob, as was done to Senator Ted Cruz and his wife, or be shouted at, as was the widow of a New York City cop who died in the 9/11 terrorist attack, something like,”I hope your husband is rotting in his grave!”
Or Justice Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, a woman pf obvious emotional or mental problems, being callously used by the Democrats in an attempt to block Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Or Antifa thugs wearing black clothes and face masks physically attacking Trump supporters or wrecking their property, as was done to New York City’s Metropolitan Republican Club, the thugs leaving painted symbols on the walls, very reminiscent of the 1938 Nazi “Kristallnacht,” in which Storm Troopers broke the windows of Jewish-owned shops and painted the Jewish Star of David on the walls, a day marking the beginning of concerted persecution of Jews.
Haley should extend her reading beyond the New York Times. For then, she might actually become aware of how truly evil the Left has become.
That was so well said. Thank you!!j
US isn’t where those other countries are, yet. If the democrats take the house with the Nov elections, we will be much closer to being where those countries are. Please vote republican.
NO…THE PRESIDENT ALWAYS CONSORTING WITH THE ENEMY ..that’s evil. KIM JUN, HE’S MY FRIEND, VLADIMIR PUTIN, HES SMART,
She is smart to get out of there before the shit hits the fan…and that it will
Donald Trump is a hamburger!
Can you be a little bit bad? I don’t think so. It is like being a little bit pregnant.
GOOD TRUMPS eVIL
“in America, our political opponents are not evil,”
THEY ARE IF THEY ARE COMMUNIST/SOCIALIST/LIBERAL LEANING!
And I consider the democrats as such!
Sorry Hayley but the Democrat party is not just an opponent of the Republicans, they are opponents of American citizens. Their goal is to destroy America. They are all President Trump calls them. How can you defend anything they do or say after Obama exposed his plan for us? They absolutely are evil to the core! You are letting us down by giving “our enemies” credence! Too bad you were a Blessing for a time!
From the beginning…i knew there was something about Haley i didn’t trust. Gut feeling. She is totally wrong about some political opponents aren’t evil. Really? Where has SHE been? Haley..when Democrats are trying to destroy their own Country they work for, and are bullying and harrassing Senators, Republicans, and the Presidents Staff at public restaurants…..THEY ARE EVIL!!!! Whose side are you on anyway? And you are our U S Ambassador. WOW !!!!!
rebellion in any form is wrong . from ether side . we can stand-up for what is right an just and trust JESUS to do the sorting , JESUS also said I will provide what ever is needed , trust in ME . satan is fighting a loosing battle and he is still trying his best prove that he is a leader . he has rebellion in his own camp . all we can is pray for those who are being led astray .
Another RINO and CINO (Christian, Conservative) in name only. CreatorisLiberty.com
I would interpret her comments as applying more to Democrats than Trump.
I am greatly saddened by the words of some of my fellow Americans. the leader of this country is doing nothing to bring us back together. daily he makes statements that push us further away from each other. please remember why we were first built into a country . the battles that have been fought. we can not allow us to separate from this basic theme. we must work together. we do not laugh at others when they fall down and need assistance to regain their strength .we do not honor dictators
RIGHT
I stand with the President. There are certainly evil elements within today’s democratic party.
Nikki your a fool Communism is EVIL. I fought communism once. I will fight the Communists Again starting with Gillum in Florida.