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Haley Wants to Forget About Asking to Give ‘Trump a Break’

Former White House insider will never get rid of the Trump stink

Manny Otiko
4 min readFeb 13, 2021
Nikki Haley (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Like, “QAnon Rep.” Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.,) I’m tired of writing stories about former United Nation Ambassador Nikki Haley and her quixotic attempt to become president. I’ve written two stories about Haley and the fact that the GOP’s white nationalist wing is never going to make the daughter of Indian immigrants their standard-bearer — no matter how much she Anglicizes herself. The party of the alt-right and the Proud Boys won’t put a brown-skinned woman, whose dad wears a turban, in the White House.

However, Haley is still hell-bent on her quest to become the nation’s first female president. She sold her soul by aligning with Donald Trump, the worst president in American history. Yes, the daughter of immigrants was OK with a president who was locking up brown-skinned people not much darker than her on the border. But like the old saying about “He who sups with the devil must have a long spoon,” Haley’s eating utensil wasn’t long enough. Even…

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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