United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said she’s pleased with President Trump’s Monday night message about fighting bigotry, and said America needs to minimize white nationalist groups that seek to divide the country on race.
“I will tell you that there is no room for hate in this country,” Haley said on CNN.
“I know the pain that hate can cause, and we need to isolate haters, and we need to make sure that they know there is no place for them, because our country is founded on so much more than that,” she added.
Nikki Haley on Charlottesville: There is no room for hate in this country our country is founded on so much more than that. pic.twitter.com/rb3m3MpLex— CNN (@CNN) August 22, 2017
“I think that they’re a minimal crowd that’s very loud that we have to stomp out every chance we get,” Haley said of white nationalists.
Haley was governor of South Carolina when a shooting in a black church in Charleston, S.C., prompted her to order the Confederate flag removed from the statehouse.
Trump has been criticized for not immediately condemning white nationalists who rallied in Virginia two weekends ago. But Haley defended Trump and said his remarks Monday reaffirmed the right message.
“He clarified the fact that there is no room for bigotry in our country,” she said.
Trump said before remarks about Afghanistan that U.S. troops serving abroad should not have to “return to a country that is not at war with itself.”
“Let us make a simple promise to the men and women we asked to fight in our name that when they return home from battle they will find a country that has renewed the sacred bonds of love and loyalty that unite us together as one,” Trump said.
