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Former South Carolina governor and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley appeared on “The Guy Benson Show” Wednesday, where she blasted the Biden administration’s handling of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
The show host brought up how President Biden made news Tuesday for referring to Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine as “genocide.” After playing a clip of the president defending his choice of words to the press, Benson recalled how this wasn’t the first time that the White House had sent mixed messaging on the war in Ukraine, in just this week alone.
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He pointed out how the Biden administration had bungled their promise of giving additional assistance to Ukraine, by at first offering helicopters, then renigging on that promise the next day.
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy listens during his meeting with President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 1, 2022.
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“Zelenskyy got on the phone with Biden and basically begged for those helicopters. I mean, Biden had just said there was a genocide happening, and they scaled back what they were planning to help with in terms of combating the genocide, militarily. And then after that phone call between the two leaders, I guess now the helicopters are back into the package,” Benson told Haley.
The show host wondered if she also was concerned about the “incoherent” messaging and “flip-flopping” from the White House.
Haley said it appeared there was a lack of communication and also blamed “bureaucracy.”
“Well it comes across as the different agencies aren’t talking to each other,” she said. “I think this is genocide. Any time you try and eliminate the existence of a people, that’s genocide. And again, that shows…
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