Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley drew some ridicule from NBC News over an answer she gave to a question at a Plymouth, New Hampshire campaign event on Friday night.
On the heels of a very bad week for Nikki Haley, the Republican presidential candidate said she would pardon Donald Trump if he’s convicted of federal crimes. “I would pardon Trump if he is found guilty,” she said at a campaign event in Plymouth, New Hampshire, on Thursday.
“A leader needs to think about what’s in the best interest of the country,” Haley went on. “What’s in the best interest of the country is not to have an 80-year-old man sitting in jail that continues to divide our country. What’s in the best interest of our country is to pardon him so that we can move on as a country and no longer talk about him.”
Haley was responding to a question from a 9-year-old in the audience, who joked that she…
