Facing Donald Trump for the Republican primaries, only her remains.
And on Sunday, Nikki Haley, former United States ambassador to the United Nations, criticized the former president for his silence after the death of Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny on Friday February 16.
“
The fact that he doesn't say anything about Navalny (shows) that either he sides with Putin and thinks it's okay for him to kill his political opponents, or he just doesn't think it's okay an important matter
,” she told ABC.
The death announced Friday of Alexeï Navalny in an Arctic prison, on which the Kremlin remains silent, provoked a wave of indignation from Western countries, President Joe Biden affirmed that his Russian counterpart was “
responsible
".
Nikki Haley also criticized Donald Trump's " chilling
" statements
about the solidarity mechanisms between NATO allies facing Moscow.
On February 10 during a meeting, the former president declared that he would encourage Russia to do "
whatever it wants
" to a NATO member country that did not respect the spending guidelines of defense.
“
All he did at that moment was to strengthen Putin
,” said the Republican candidate.
“
Let's remind the American people that Putin said that once Ukraine was taken, Poland and the Baltics would be next (...) These are NATO countries and that immediately puts America in a position of war
,” warned Nikki Haley.