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6:04Now PlayingDonald Trump ramps up his attacks on Republican presidential competition Nikki Haley by rolling out insane racist attack and new name for her in seething Truth Social rant. John Iadarola and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report.
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Trump Debuts New Racist Name for Nikki Haley
"Unsurprisingly, Trump seems far less concerned about being accused of saying offensive things about a non-white Republican primary opponent. When New Hampshire primary polls showed Nikki Haley gaining on Trump earlier this month, he started pulling from the racist playbook he used against Barack Obama. Trump floated an absurd birther conspiracy on Truth Social, suggesting Haley is ineligible for the presidency because her parents are Indian immigrants. Then, on Tuesday, he referred to her as Nikki “Nimrada” Haley, a racist dog whistle meant to suggest there’s something foreign and sneaky about the former South Carolina governor, who was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. (Her campaign has said she’s gone by her middle name since birth, and Haley is her married name.)
On Friday morning Trump signaled that he’s not concerned in the slightest about accusations of racism when he butchered Haley’s first name again on Truth Social. He used a new misspelling, “Nimbra,” three times in one post, so it clearly wasn’t a one-off typo:"
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