Washington:

President Joe Biden hit again at predecessor and Republican presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, over his mockery of fellow occasion candidate Nikki Haley’s husband, saying that the latter thinks that the nation’s troops are ‘suckers’, including that “this man would not know service to his nation if it slapped him within the face.”

Taking to his official X deal with, President Biden posted, “The reply is that Main Haley is overseas, serving his nation proper now. We all know he thinks our troops are “suckers,” however this man would not know service to his nation if it slapped him within the face.”

Biden’s assertion got here in response to remarks made by the previous president on Saturday throughout a rally in her state.

“The place’s her (Nikki Haley’s) husband?” Trump mentioned, including, “‘Oh, he is away, he is away.’ What occurred to her husband? What occurred to her husband? The place is he? He is gone”, in keeping with The Hill.

Haley’s husband, Main Michael Haley, was deployed in Africa in June of final yr with the South Carolina Military Nationwide Guard. She wished him farewell in a ceremony in mid-June with about 200 troopers at The Citadel, a army school in Charleston.

Earlier, Nikki Haley additionally attacked Trump for remarks he made about her husband, who’s within the army and stationed overseas, in keeping with The Hill.

“Michael is deployed serving our nation, one thing you already know nothing about,” Haley posted on X, including, “Somebody who frequently disrespects the sacrifices of army households has no enterprise being commander in chief.”

“He is all the time been my rock,” Haley mentioned.

“Now we have each lived a lifetime of service, and so when he goes off to deploy, my help is totally with him. If I occur to be working for president, his help is totally with me,” she added.

Haley and her husband have been collectively for greater than 25 years, and he continuously attended her candidacy rallies. The previous UN ambassador usually mentioned being married to a member of the armed forces; her husband joined the Nationwide Guard in the course of the 2000s, The Hill reported.

Throughout Haley’s first stint as governor of Palmetto State, he was initially despatched abroad.

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