South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley devoted a significant portion of her State of the Union response to slamming the tone of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, but records show Haley has accepted donations from Trump several times.
via Roll Call
According to a search of contributors on the South Carolina State Ethics Commission’s website, Trump gave Haley $1,000 in July 2010 and $2,500 two months later. In October 2011, not even one year into her governorship, Trump donated another $3,500 to Haley.
Furthermore, in 2012, The State newspaper in South Carolina reported that Trump had donated to a 527 group called the Movement Fund that is supportive of Haley and had tax-exempt status. According the organization’s first quarter report in 2012, Trump gave $5,000 to the Movement Fund.
One could certainly argue Trump has changed since 2012, and it's true that he has become more radical, but even at that point Donald Trump made headlines by dispatching his "investigators" to Hawaii to uncover the untold truth of President Obama's birth.
Are those investigators still in Hawaii?
Trump regularly brings up campaign finance during his stump speeches where he strikes a populist tone against politicians who say one thing and do another. Trump is also guilty of saying one thing and doing another, but GOP voters don't seem to care.
Haley has made his point for him.