CNN anchor Brianna Keilar blamed former UN ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday after the former Trump nominee accused the mainstream media of wanting to split the Republican Party.
Haley wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday attacking the media after a recent interview she gave to Politico received attention for comments rejecting former President Donald Trump as future Republican Party leader after the deadly Capitol riot in January 6.
“[The liberal media] it wants to provoke an uninterrupted republican civil war, “wrote Haley.” The media manual begins with the requirement that everyone choose a side about Donald Trump – love or hate everything about him. The moment someone on the right criticizes the 45th president, the media goes crazy: Republicans are trying to do both! It is a calculated strategy to pit conservatives against each other. It is also a ridiculous false choice. Real life is never so simple. One can do good and bad things. “
Keilar responded on Thursday by playing a montage of prominent Republican lawmakers defending and criticizing Trump in recent weeks.
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“Haley says the media wants to stoke a Republican civil war. How? Telling Americans what is going on, what are Republicans on both sides of that division saying? Maybe there would be no civil war if the media just stopped documenting?” Keilar.
“There is a civil war,” she added later. “The GOP is eating its own, expelling good people while preaching to conspiracy theorists. And the media ignoring this is not going to make Mitt Romney and Josh Hawley somehow agree on the existential issues facing their party.”
The CNN anchor then accused the former South Carolina governor of “trying both,” praising Trump’s policies and condemning his actions after his defeat in the November election.
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“Your party is at a critical point, Ambassador. You want to keep kicking both sides of the road, ignoring reality until what? You look up and see the walking crowd that you are dense with white supremacists, dense with cowardly. ambitious politicians who threw away their morals miles ago, several clicks after they left Fiscal Conservative Town and Family Valuesville without even looking back, “continued Keilar later.
“It’s a long road through the desert, especially with your eyes closed.”