Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley fired back at President Biden Monday, hours after the 81-year-old commander-in-chief indirectly reprimanded the former governor of his home state of South Carolina for failing to identify slavery as a cause of the Civil War.
Haley blasted Biden during a town hall moderated by Fox News hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum in Des Moines, Iowa, for holding a campaign event at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC – the site of a racially motivated mass shooting in June 2015 in which nine black churchgoers killed by white supremacist Dylann Roof.
“For Biden to show up there and give a political speech is offensive in itself,” Haley said.
The former United Nations ambassador later blamed Biden for his past association with segregation and his history of “racist comments.”
“I don’t need someone who toyed with segregation in the 70s and has made racist comments throughout his career teaching me or anyone in South Carolina what racism, slavery, or anything Civil means. War,” Haley grunted.
Haley fired back at Biden for “lecturing” him about the Civil War in his home state. AP
In May 2022, Biden recalls the “old days” in the US. Senate when he was able to sit down and have lunch with “real separatists” in Washington, despite not agreeing with them.
The president named former segregationist Sens. James Eastland (D-Miss.) and Strom Thurmond (RS.C.) as lawmakers he “used to fight with” before “having lunch together,” during a speech at a manufacturing plant in Hamilton, Ohio.
Biden told a similar anecdote a month later during an annual picnic with members of Congress on the White House lawn.
The president was even taken to task by his running mate, Kamala Harris, during the June 2019 debate for praising Eastland and the segregation of Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.) earlier that month.
“I don’t believe you’re racist,” Harris told Biden. “But I also believe, and it’s personal — it hurts to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and careers on racial segregation in this country.”
“So let me make it clear, for those who don’t seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War,” Biden said during a campaign event in Charleston, SC. “There was no negotiation about that.” Reuters
Biden later apologized, saying he regretted giving “the impression to the public that I was praising the man”
Before Monday’s town hall, Haley’s campaign pointed to Biden’s opposition in the 1970s to court-ordered busing; his explanation in 2007 about Sen. Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African American who was articulate and bright and clean and a good-looking guy”; His 2006 “you can’t go to 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent”; and 2019’s “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids” as examples of the president’s past racist comments.
Biden on Monday called it a “lie” that the Civil War was about states’ rights.
“So let me explain, for those who don’t seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War,” he said. “There was no negotiation about that.”
Haley also called for Biden to be “fired” over the mysterious situation involving Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who checked himself into Walter Reed National Army Medical Center on New Year’s Day without notifying the White House and transferred his duties to deputy secretary Kathleen Hicks – who was on vacation in Puerto Rico – while he is incapacitated.
The president only learned of Austin’s hospitalization last Thursday, according to a CNN report.
“I think Biden should be fired,” Haley said. “It’s unbelievable that we have a situation like this.”
“First, I have a problem with the fact that Biden doesn’t talk to his secretary of defense every day,” he said. “Secondly, was there not enough connection that he did not know he was hospitalized in intensive care at that time? And then go and say, ‘Oh, but his deputy secretary knows what’s going on’ but he’s on vacation in Puerto Rico? There are a lot of things wrong with this.”
The White House and the Pentagon said Austin, 70, resumed his duties on Friday from Walter Reed.
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