Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called Donald Trump's treatment of women "respectful" after he was found to have sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll.
During a Sunday interview on CNN, host Dana Bash noted that Carroll's attorney had recalled how Trump "was so angry during a deposition that his team was providing her lunch that he threw papers across the table and stormed off."
"He also made a veiled reference to the C-word," Bash told Haley. "You're now his competitor, but you've worked very closely with him, as you've talked about even in this interview. Do you think he has a problem with women who challenge him?"
"Well, I challenged him a lot, and he actually handled it very well and was very respectful," Haley replied. "If I saw him doing something wrong, I showed up, or I called him, and I would say, you cannot do this, but instead, you know, do it this way, this way, or this way."
"He didn't challenge me," she added. "He is not a perfect person. He is flawed."
