NIKKI HALEY (R-SC): Any time there is a traumatic situation, people want something to blame. They always want something to go after. There is one person to blame here. A person filled with hate, a person that doesn’t define South Carolina. And we are going to focus on that person. I know President Obama has his job to do and he made those statements. But my job is to now get this state to heal and our focus, very much, is on those nine families. It’s on the Mother Emanuel church family. It’s on the AME family and it’s on the people of South Carolina who are saying that one person doesn’t define us. What’s happening in churches now around the state, that defines us.
In a more theologically literate day this would be identified even further as instigated from the pits of hell. The madman was only the instrument.