Nikki Haley Derides Trump After Stunning E. Jean Carroll Verdict: "America Can Do Better"

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38% : But her comments Friday mark a significant escalation, as she hopes to put together a last-ditch attempt to challenge Trump in the Republican primary.
33% : THIS IS NOT AMERICA!"A significant challenge for Haley is that Trump's appeal among GOP primary voters has only increased along with the extent of his legal woes, as the party has coalesced around the narrative that the litigation represents a Biden-led conspiracy to keep Trump from power.
31% : America can do better than Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
31% : Though Trump wasn't in the courtroom to hear the verdict directly, he quickly responded to the ruling Friday on Truth Social, calling it a "Biden Directed Witch Hunt."
24% : "Defamation accusations are being weaponized against the leaders of the America First movement, whether they be Trump, Rudy Guiliani, or me," she wrote.
19% : "The defamation charges stem from a lawsuit Carroll filed in 2019, accusing Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s.
19% : (Trump currently faces 91 criminal counts across four cases and a civil fraud trial unfolding in New York.)
18% : Haley has long called for the GOP to "move forward" from Trump to avoid having a presidential candidate embroiled in litigation during an election year.
17% : At the same time, Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed Trump was "denied a fair trial in NY where judges are now political activist [sic] instead of delivering justice.
16% : One of the lengthier statements out of Trumpworld came from upstate New York Representative Elise Stefanik, who has hit the campaign trail hard with Trump and is rumored to be in the vice presidential conversation.
13% : "Donald Trump wants to be the presumptive Republican nominee, and we're talking about $83 million in damages," Haley wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
11% : Nikki Haley attacked the GOP frontrunner, Donald Trump after a Manhattan jury ordered the former president to pay columnist E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million on Friday for defamation -- an amount that far exceeded what the plaintiff was asking for in closing arguments.
9% : A jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in June of last year, and this second trial concerned statements Trump made attacking Carroll's character after she went public with the accusation.

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