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Nikki Haley accuses Pompeo of ‘lies and gossip to sell book’ after vice-president plot claim | Books

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Nikki Haley said the former secretary of state Mike Pompeo’s claim that she plotted to replace Mike Pence as Donald Trump’s vice-president was “lies and gossip to sell a book”.

The former United Nations ambassador spoke to Fox News on Thursday evening, after the Guardian obtained a copy of Pompeo’s forthcoming memoir, Never Give An Inch, and reported his comments about Haley.

Haley resigned from the Trump administration in October 2018. Before that, Pompeo says, she set up a personal meeting with Trump in the Oval Office without checking with him.

Pompeo writes that John Kelly, then Trump’s chief of staff, thought Haley had in fact been accompanied by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner as they presented “a possible ‘Haley for vice-president’ option”.

Pompeo also writes unfavourably of Haley’s performance as UN ambassador and criticises her resignation.

Speaking to Fox News, Haley said: “I don’t know why he said it, but that’s exactly why I stayed out of DC as much as possible, to get away from the drama.”

She also pointed out that Pompeo says in his book he does not know if the story is true.

Haley and Pompeo are among possible contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, a contest in which Trump remains the only confirmed candidate.

But Haley seems set to run.

She told Fox News: “We are still working through things and we’ll figure it out. I’ve never lost a race. I said that then I still say that now. I’m not going to lose now.”

Haley turns 51 on Friday. In a remark seemingly directed at Joe Biden, who is 80, but also Donald Trump, who is 76, she said: “I don’t think you need to be 80 years old to go be a leader in DC. I think we need a young generation to come in, step up and really start fixing things. Can I be that leader? Yes, I think I can be that leader.”

The former South Carolina governor has attracted support from Kushner’s family. She told Fox News Kushner and his wife were her friends, though she expected they would support Ivanka’s father.

She said: “May the best woman win.”

Pence, the senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley and even the former national security adviser John Bolton are among other possible candidates for the Republican nomination. But two men, Trump and the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, dominate polling so far.

On Thursday, Ben Rhodes, a former foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, wrote: “Pompeo and Haley poised for a real battle to see who can crack 1% in a Republican primary.”

Pompeo’s description of Haley’s supposed meeting with Trump chimed with reports that in 2019 prompted Trump to deny considering replacing Pence as vice-president.

On Thursday, Maggie Haberman, the New York Times reporter and author of the bestselling book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, noted that Kushner and Ivanka Trump “insisted to disbelieving colleagues and Pence allies that they had no role in the Haley/VP rumors”.



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Nikki Haley slams Biden for calling Republicans ‘fiscally demented’: ‘Try again, Mr. President’

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Former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin dissects the battle raging over the debt limit which the U.S. is expected to reach on Thursday.

Former United Nations ambassador. Nikki Haley slammed President Biden’s comments that Republicans are “fiscally demented” calling out the President for signing off on a $6 trillion spending package amid a looming debt ceiling deadline and crushing inflation.

“Biden’s signed off on more than $6 trillion in new spending—and pushed for trillions more, and he’s calling Republicans ‘fiscally demented.’ Try again, Mr. President.” the former South Carolina governor wrote on Twitter.

The national debt when Biden took office was $27.7 trillion. As of the time of this publication, it was $31.4 trillion, an increase of $3.7 trillion in a two years. 

PRESIDENT BIDEN CALLS REPUBLICANS ‘FISCALLY DEMENTED’ DURING MLK DAY SPEECH, AMID DOCS SCANDAL, INFLATION

While speaking at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event Monday, the President blasted Republicans, calling them “fiscally demented” while touting what he called Democrats’ accomplishments and claiming that they are the fiscally responsible party.

“They’re going to talk about big-spending Democrats again. Guess what? I reduced the deficit last year $350 billion. This year, federal deficit is down $1 trillion plus. That’s a fact.” Biden said, prompting roaring applaud from the crowd. “And there’s going to be hundreds of billions reduced over the next decade. But so what? These guys are the fiscally demented, I think. They don’t quite get it.”

In May 2022, the president proposed a $6 trillion spending package in a proposal aimed at to funding his sweeping economic agenda, which included investments in education, infrastructure, and transportation. 

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Since President Biden has taken office, Democrats have passed about $3.8 trillion in spending on their top agenda items. The single most expensive of Democrats’ significant pieces of legislation was also their first — the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP). That was followed in 2021 by the bipartisan infrastructure bill, was supported by all Democrats and a smaller number of Republicans and which cost $1.2 trillion in new and baseline spending.

In the summer of 2022, Democrats, alongside of President Biden, passed a $280 billion bill to compete with China and a gun control bill with $20 billion in spending. 

Finally, they passed the Inflation Reduction Act — the reconciliation revamp of Build Back Better — with estimates ranging between $430 billion and $480 billion in combined spending and tax credits. Biden signed his Inflation Reduction Act into law in August 2022. 

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to supporters at the National Action Network’s Annual Martin Luther King Day Breakfast on January 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images / Getty Images)

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the National Action Network’s (NAN) Martin Luther King, Jr. day breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, January 16, 2023.  (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Under Former President Donald Trump, the national debt went up about $8 trillion over his four-year term with a portion of the debt increasing due to the COVID-19 relief plan. After Trump took office, he quickly implemented a massive tax cut including a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 21% from 35%, a move that critics say increased the annual deficit further.

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Last Friday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the U.S. is on track to reach the debt limit, the cap on how much money the federal government can borrow, by Thursday. The ceiling was last raised by $2.5 trillion in December 2021 to $31.4 trillion. 

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks for the National Action Network (NAN) at their Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Breakfast, in Washington, DC, on Jan. 16, 2023.  (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

The Treasury Department has warned Democrats and Republicans alike to reach a compromise. Still, House Republicans said they would not support the Democrats’ call to increase the debt ceiling this time around unless there are significant spending cuts and concessions made. 

Yellen warned the congressional leaders to recall 2011, when the U.S. reached its debt limit, wreaking havoc on the stock market.

In June 2022, under the Biden administration, inflation hit a 40-year-high of 9.1%, and gas prices soared nationwide under his watch.

In November, the Biden administration claimed it was responsible for the historic reduction in the federal deficit, leaving out other major contributing factors that led to the decrease.

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“The Biden-Harris Administration lowered the deficit with the single largest one-year reduction in American history,” the White House tweeted. 

Twitter users quickly pointed out that despite the reduction, “the FY22 deficit is still the 4th largest in history and is 41% larger than FY19” and highlighted that high COVID-driven deficits played a significant role in the drop.

Fox News’ Tyler Olson contributed to this article. 

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Nikki Haley says Warnock should be deported at Walker rally

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Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley on Sunday quipped that Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) should be deported as she rallied for Georgia’s Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker.

“Legal immigrants are more patriotic than the leftists these days,” Haley said at the Hiram, Ga., rally. “They worked to come into America and they love America. They want the laws followed in America. So the only person we need to make sure we deport is Warnock.”

Haley, who served as ambassador to the UN during the Trump administration and is considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate, has stumped for a number of GOP candidates across the country ahead of the midterms.

After rallies in Georgia and New Hampshire on Sunday, Haley will travel to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on Monday.

Sunday’s rally was part of Walker’s bus tour through Georgia during the final stretch of the race. The former football star is running in a tight race against Warnock, a pastor who assumed office last year after winning a special election.

The Democratic senator is slightly ahead of his Republican opponent in one of the most closely watched Senate races this election cycle.

Walker is facing a number of controversies, including that he encouraged two women in separate instances to have an abortion, despite backing strict abortion bans.

At the rally, Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, said Walker is a “good person who has been put through the ringer and has had everything but the kitchen sink thrown at him.”

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Nikki Haley: OPEC wanted to ‘stick it to Biden’ after Saudi remarks, Iran deal efforts

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Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Sunday that President Biden should not have been surprised that ministers from Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC+) decided to cut oil production – in fact, she implied it could have been done just to spite him.

After OPEC+, which is led by Saudi Arabia, announced last week that they would cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day in a move that is expected to raise oil prices globally. In response, President Biden said the move was “a disappointment” that “says there are problems” with Washington’s relationship with Riyadh.

“I don’t know why he’s mad when you go and you call for the rest of the world to make Saudi Arabia an international pariah,” Haley told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo, “when you go in, you fall all over yourself to get into the Iran deal, which upsets all of the Arab countries.”

Biden had spoken out against Saudi Arabia while he was campaigning for the presidency. Since taking office, his administration has been actively working to reenter an Iran nuclear deal that has been criticized as not doing enough to keep a nuclear weapon away from Iran, which is an adversary of Saudi Arabia and other Arab states.

OPEC+ MINISTERS AGREE TO CUT PRODUCTION BY 2M BARRELS PER DAY

Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the U.N., speaks on July 14, 2021.
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“Don’t be shocked when OPEC is not your friend and doesn’t go and lift and raise production,” Haley continued. “I mean, they did exactly what I think they wanted to do, which was stick it to Biden.”

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Haley went on to criticize the White House for reportedly wanting to look to Venezuela as an alternative, saying that the South American nation has “literally committed crimes against humanity.”  

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“I mean, we can do what we need to do here,” Haley said. “We can protect Americans. We should be exporting as much liquefied natural gas as we can. We don’t need to be relying on anyone else for things like energy and going into our reserves.”

FOX Business’ Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.

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Bruce Willis Saluted By John Travolta, Haley Joel Osment – Deadline

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From Moonlighting through The Fifth Element, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense and 12 Monkeys, everyone has a favorite Bruce Willis moment. Today, as news broke about his aphasia condition, fans, friends and industryites took to the online world to salute his long career.

Some new reactions to the news of his retirement came today, including some costars in his most memorable films.

Producer Randall Emmett, who has worked with Willis on more than 20 films:

“Bruce and I have worked on over 20 films together. He is a terrific actor and legendary action star, an incredible father, and a close friend. I fully support Bruce and his family during this challenging time and admire him for his courage in battling this incredibly difficult medical condition. Bruce will always be part of our family.”



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Aliyah Boston, Haley Jones, Caitlin Clark among women’s Wooden Award finalists

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Two South Carolina players and a pair from Stanford headline the 15-player national ballot for the 2022 John R. Wooden Award, given annually to the top women’s college basketball player in the country.

The No. 1 Gamecocks’ Aliyah Boston, largely considered the favorite for national player of the year, and Destanni Henderson made the cut of the final 15 candidates, as did reigning Final Four Most Outstanding Player Haley Jones and Cameron Brink for defending national champion Stanford, which is ranked No. 2.

Iowa sophomore Caitlin Clark, also in the conversation for national player of the year, is a Wooden finalist, as is DePaul’s Aneesah Morrow, who has compiled 23 consecutive double-doubles and is the only freshman to appear on the list.

Presumptive top-two 2022 WNBA draft picks NaLyssa Smith (Baylor) — winner of the 2021 Wade Trophy — and Rhyne Howard (Kentucky) are among the finalists.

Of the four Power 5 conferences that have named their respective players of the year, three of those athletes made the list: Clark (Big Ten), Jones (Pac-12) and Boston (SEC). ACC Player of the Year Elizabeth Kitley (Virginia Tech) was not named a Wooden finalist.

Khayla Pointer from LSU is a finalist after not being on the late-season top-20 list.

Paige Bueckers, the 2021 Wooden Award winner, has not been featured as a candidate in the past few iterations of the award’s watch list. Bueckers missed 19 games for UConn while recovering from a tibial plateau fracture and a meniscus tear in her left knee before returning in the Huskies’ penultimate regular-season game.

A 10-player Wooden All-America team will be announced after the Elite Eight. The top vote-getters will be invited to the Wooden Award presentation in Los Angeles in April.

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Haley slams ‘dangerous’ Biden move to re-enter UN Human Rights Council ‘cesspool’

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EXCLUSIVE: Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday tore into President Biden’s move to re-enter the U.N. Human Rights Council – which has been dogged by controversy over the human rights abusers among its members, and which Haley branded a “cesspool.”

“If President Biden truly cared about human rights, he would keep us far away from the cesspool that is the UN Human Rights Council,” Haley said in a statement to Fox News.

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The U.S. was elected Thursday to the Council after the Biden administration had applied for membership earlier this year. It means that the U.S. will return to the Council after the Trump administration left the Council in 2018 over the body’s anti-Israel bias and the human rights abusers among its members.

Current members of the Council include China, Cuba, Eritrea, Russia and Venezuela – making up some of the most notorious human rights abusers and brutal regimes in the world. 

“America left it under President Trump because we refused to lend our credibility, as the most generous country in the world, to cover for the world’s worst tyrants and dictators,” Haley said. [Biden’s] actions today aren’t just embarrassing; they’re dangerous.”

Critics have accused the council of having a sweeping anti-Israel bias, noting that Israel is regularly discussed and condemned by the council, while human rights violations by other countries – including those on the council – are ignored.

AT UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, 53 COUNTRIES BACK CHINA’S DRACONIAN HONG KONG CRACKDOWN
 

In 2020, 53 countries at the council, led by Cuba, came out in support of China’s oppressive national security law – a law that formed the basis of the communist regime’s crackdown against the people of Hong Kong.

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That came after China was appointed to a council panel to help vet candidates for important posts.

Biden had promised that the U.S. would rejoin the Council if he was elected to the White House, and that his administration would “work to ensure that body truly lives up to its values.”

Countries on the ballot on Thursday along with the United States include Eritrea, Somalia, India, Qatar, Honduras, Argentina and Luxembourg. In a statement, current U.N. Ambassador said that the U.S. “will use every tool at our disposal, from introducing resolutions and amendments to wielding our vote when needed. Our goals are clear: stand with human rights defenders and speak out against violations and abuses of human rights.”

 She also pledged that the U.S. will oppose the Council’s “disproportionate attention on Israel” and will “press against the election of countries with egregious human rights records and encourage those committed to promoting and protecting human rights both in their own countries and abroad to seek membership.”

Fox News’ Ben Evansky contributed to this report.

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When to Watch the Draconid and Orionid Meteor Showers in October 2021

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There are a couple of interesting meteor showers to watch for in October: First comes the modest Draconid, which will warm you up for the more impressive Orionid later in the month. Here’s how to see them both from the Northern Hemisphere.

How to watch the Draconid meteor shower

The Draconid meteor shower will peak on Oct. 8 and into Oct. 9. It’s a convenient meteor shower, especially for parents, because the best viewing takes place right after nightfall on Friday, so you won’t have to drag your kid out of bed at four in the morning on a school night for the best views.

Because the moon is nearly new, the sky should be quite dark, but even with a darker sky, Draconid isn’t usually the most spectacular cosmic event. You can expect to see about five to 10 meteors per hour. Some years, though, Draconid puts on a show with hundred of meteors per hour streaking through the sky. Will it happen this year? Probably not, but it’s possible, and you won’t want to have missed it if it does.

Find the Draconid meteor shower’s radiant point

While you should be able to catch shooting stars all over the night sky, the radiant point of the Draconid shower is near the head of the Draco the Dragon constellation. To find it, first locate the Big Dipper (look north, about a third of the way from the horizon to the top of the sky) and then follow the point of the Dipper to Polaris. Halfway between the lip of the Dipper’s cup and Polaris is the tip of Draco’s tail. Follow its body up to the head, and there’s the radiant point.

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How to watch the Orionid meteor shower

The Orionid meteor shower is the most impressive cosmic show in October, with up to 20 meteors visible per hour. Peak viewing will be on Wednesday, Oct. 20, into Thursday, Oct. 21. The best viewing time is right before dawn, although Orionid meteors (caused by Earth passing through the debris left by Haley’s Comet) will be visible throughout the month.

Sadly, peak meteor-peeping coincides with the Hunter’s Moon lighting up the sky, so fainter meteors probably won’t be visible, but the shooting stars you do get to see are likely to be impressive. About half of Orionid meteors leave trails in the sky that last a few seconds.

Find the Orionid meteor shower’s radiant point

Although they will be visible all over the sky, meteors from Orionid seem to radiate from the constellation Orion, an easy-to-find group of stars. Just look South (if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere) for the three stars that make up Orion’s Belt, follow them upwards to the bright, reddish star Betelgeuse, and you’re looking roughy at the radiant point of Orionid meteors—but given the light of the moon, you’ll probably be better off finding a dark area of the sky instead of the radiant point.

  

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CNN’s Brianna Keilar lectures Nikki Haley on racism in America after former governor said US isn’t racist

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CNN anchor Brianna Keilar went after former UN ambassador Nikki Haley for declaring that the U.S. is not a “racist” country.

During Wednesday morning’s “Roll the Tape” segment, which is almost exclusively dedicated to attacking Republicans, Keilar slammed Haley as a “rising star in the GOP” turned “Republican pinball machine,” for remarks she gave at the Reagan Presidential Library on Tuesday. 

Keilar accused Haley of “minimizing” the deaths of over 700,000 Americans caused by the coronavirus after the Republican decried “hatred of America” and referred to it as a “pandemic much more damaging than any virus.”

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The anchor then played a clip of Haley saying, “Take it from me, the first female and minority governor of South Carolina, America is not a racist country… As a Brown girl growing up in a small southern town, I saw the promise of America unfold before me.”

“She did see the promise of America unfold, but at times she also saw the promise of America denied,” Keilar said before attempting to undercut Haley’s comments using a 2018 clip of her explaining the racism her Sikh Indian family had experienced years ago and a 2010 clip of a former South Carolina state senator using racist rhetoric towards Haley during her first gubernatorial run. 

The “New Day” co-host then pushed back at Haley’s 2014 assertion that “systemic racism” was in America’s past by citing the 2015 Charleston church shooting that left nine Black Americans dead. Although she credited Haley for removing the Confederate flag from the state capitol, Keilar accused the former governor of whitewashing the “ups and downs of the American experience with racism and the challenges still ahead, all apparently to appeal to the conservative base” while airing images of the same flag being carried on Jan. 6. 

“Nikki Haley courting the followers of Donald Trump, who enlisted the support of anti-government extremists, told the Proud Boys to ‘stand back and stand by’, told Black and Brown nations quote ‘s—hole countries’ and said there are ‘very fine people on both sides’ after a white supremacist killed a woman as she protested a far-right rally,” Keilar said. “Even after Nikki Haley said this about President Trump following January 6th, quote, ‘We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn’t have and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again… His actions since Election Day will be judged harshly by history. 

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“Now she may be right, that history will Donald Trump harshly, but Nikki Haley will not because she is too busy trying to ride his coattails,” Keilar added.

Earlier this year, Keilar went after Haley after the former UN ambassador accused the media of wanting to sow division within the GOP.

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Cotton, Haley Say U.S. Reputation Underwater after Biden’s UN General Assembly Speech

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After President Biden’s address before the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, Senator Tom Cotton and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley rebuked his message, which they argue irreparably damaged America’s international reputation and credibility.

Haley said Biden’s rhetoric treated America’s adversaries with kid gloves, as he failed to explicitly name them or highlight the challenges they pose or the egregious abuses they’ve committed. In a line that some Republicans interpreted as appeasement, Biden declared that the U.S. is “not seeking the new Cold War” with China.

“President Biden’s speech ignored the reality and seriousness of America’s threats and enemies. China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Afghanistan, and terrorism, to name a few,” Haley said on a Fox News segment after the event. Because of Biden’s tepid attitude toward our foes, our allies cannot depend on us for support which was unequivocally guaranteed during the preceding administration, the former South Caroline governor said.

“With Joe Biden asleep at the switch, our friends don’t trust us, and our enemies are rejoicing,” Haley added.

Haley noted China’s complicity in the pandemic, human rights violations against the Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region, suppression of the democracy movement in Hong Kong, and aggression towards Taiwan. Despite China’s poor record, however, she said Biden is prioritizing collaborating with its regime to curb climate change, a problem the country has disproportionately contributed to as one of the globe’s top emitters.

On an appearance on Fox News Tuesday, Cotton suggested Biden’s speech was an embarrassment to our international standing and a humiliating show of weakness.

“Joe Biden walked into the United Nations today and put a giant ‘kick me’ sign on Uncle Sam’s back…The leaders in Beijing are laughing at Joe Biden and America right now because they’ve been waging a cold war against us for decades. Stealing our jobs by the millions, infiltrating our high-tech businesses and universities with spies, building a military that might one day compete with our own,” he said.

“He literally would not use the word ‘China.’ He was like a scared child from a Harry Potter novel who wouldn’t say Voldemort’s name because he was afraid of what might happen,” he added.

Cotton also said America’s Afghan allies have not forgotten the president’s ‘betrayal” amid the botched military withdrawal and emergency evacuation from the country that left hundreds of them behind.

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