Former Ambassador and current Trump rival Nikki Haley got fed up with ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl over all the questions he kept asking about former President Donald Trump.

On Sunday’s edition of ABC’s This Week, Karl grilled Haley (and interview partner Chris Sununu) about Trump over an extended period — at least in part due to the soft-pedaling on nearly every issue by Haley that Karl felt the need to confront her about.

Finally, Haley became exasperated and told Karl he was “exhausting” — then proceeded to tell him which questions he should be asking:

KARL: I mean, he’s running on retribution. He wants to go out, and he talks about annihilating his enemies and using the criminal justice system to do so.

What — what do you — what do you think of that?

HALEY: You guys are exhausting! You’re exhausting, in your obsession with him!

The thing is the normal people aren’t obsessed with Trump like you guys are. The normal people care about the fact that they can’t afford things. They feel like their freedoms are being taken away. They think government is too big.

I know y’all want to talk about every single word he says and every single tweet he does. That’s exactly why we need a new generational leader, because people don’t want to hear about every word a person says or every tweet. They want to know how you fought for them that day, and they want to know how their life is going to be different.

And life will be a whole lot different if the media would stop this obsession with Trump.

KARL: I mean, I was just asking about his central campaign theme which is, I want — you know, I am your retribution, and he’s winning in the polls. That’s why I’m asking.

SUNUNU: Well, it’s like —

KARL: It’s not an obsession. I’m asking about the leading candidate that you’ve been running against.

(CROSSTALK)

SUNUNU: He does everything he can to not talk about issues.

KARL: Yeah.

SUNUNU: He almost acts like he wasn’t there, right?

KARL: Yeah.

SUNUNU: He doesn’t want to talk about building the wall and securing the southern border because he didn’t do it. He doesn’t want to talk about fiscal responsibility because he made a hard promise that he would do it in that debate. I’m going to be the most fiscally responsible president this country’s ever seen, he said.

KARL: Balance the budget.

SUNUNU: Yeah, didn’t even try to balance the budget.

And, you know, the thing that — for someone in New Hampshire where, you know, it’s not about big government, we love the idea that he was going to drain the swamp. That was an amazing opportunity. Didn’t even try. I mean, literally didn’t even try.

So if he talks about those issues, he has to kind of own those failures. So he’s always going to talk about retribution and just kind of to spur something up.

HALEY: And if you want to talk about Trump — if you really want to talk about Trump, why don’t you go ask him if he’s going to get on a debate stage in Iowa where Iowa’s voting? Why don’t you go ask him if he’s going to get on a debate stage in New Hampshire —

KARL: Yeah, no, that’s a good —

HALEY: — where Granite Staters are voting? That’s what you should be asking as the media. Not asking about what he happened to say today.

KARL: That’s a good question which we have asked.

But let me move on.

Watch above via ABC’s This Week.

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