Haley's recent rise seems to have Trump feeling a little nervous

When Donald Trump comes up with a dishonest nickname for you and starts lying about you in general, that’s when you know you’ve arrived. Indeed, it appears that Trump has at last torn his focus from the flailing DeSantis campaign to cast his baleful gaze on former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who’s been surging in New Hampshire primary polls. 

Of course, Trump, who’s been accused of numerous sexual assaults and described by a judge as a rapist, no doubt hates the idea of running against a woman (again)—particularly one who’s demonstrably smarter than he is. Trump initially settled on the relatively anodyne and mildly misogynistic nickname “birdbrain” to smear Haley—who dares to think she’d make a better president than the guy who wanted to nuke hurricanes. But his team has since shifted gears, in an apparent admission that “birdbrain” wasn’t cutting it.

And as The Daily Beast points out, this latest line of attack is based entirely on an easily disprovable lie. Because of course it is. 

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