Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley defended Donald Trump’s treatment of women by saying he was “respectful” to her when she challenged him as U.N. ambassador.
In an interview on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ Sunday, host Dana Bash asked Haley if Trump “has a problem with women who challenge him?” pointing to the former president’s treatment of E. Jean Carroll and the attorney who represented her in the second defamation trial, Roberta Kaplan.
“Well, I challenged him a lot and he actually handled it very well and was very respectful,” Haley said. “If I saw him doing something wrong, I showed up or I called him and I would say, ‘You cannot do this, but instead, you know, do it this way, this way or this way.'”
“And so he, he knew that I knew what I was talking about and that I was looking out for the best interest of America and so he didn’t challenge me. I think that there are issues obviously you see the things that he says. He is not a perfect person. He is flawed,” she said.
Kaplan said in a podcast interview last week that Trump threw papers across the table and stormed out of a deposition at Mar-a-Lago because his team offered to give her lunch. The deposition was unrelated to the Carroll case.
Kaplan also said Trump once told her “see you next Tuesday” a veiled reference to the C-word profanity.
