Former president Donald Trump
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Politician first reported that Haley addressed Trump on Wednesday to request a face-to-face meeting at his Mar-a-Lago resort. But Trump rejected it after Haley spent the past few weeks criticizing the former president for his role in the January 6 Capitol riots.
A Trump spokesman did not respond to any requests for comment.
Trump has met with other Republican Party officials in Mar-a-Lago since he left office, including the House minority leader Kevin McCarthy
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Haley left the Trump administration in 2018 and remained loyal to the then president, backing her candidacy for re-election, as GOP experts predicted she would be a likely candidate in the 2024 primaries.
White House officials have repeatedly denied speculation that Trump could replace then-Vice President Pence with Haley for the 2020 ticket.
But in the wake of the January 6 riots, where Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of election votes, leaving one police officer dead and dozens injured in the chaos, Haley has tried to simultaneously condemn Trump’s role without disengaging. it is entirely about the former president and his political base.
Haley said at the time that he felt Trump was “losing any kind of political viability he would have” and wondered if he would be a player in the future of the Republican Party.
He has since tried to smooth things over with Trump publicly, criticizing prosecution proceedings against him earlier this month and writing a Wall Street Journal publication Thursday that blamed the media for divisions among Republicans.
“People feel strongly about Mr. Trump, but we can recognize the reality,” he wrote. “People on the right may find themselves guilty of Trump’s actions, including January 6. Right or left, when people make these distinctions, they don’t try to have them in both directions. They’re using their brains. “.