Haley dismisses Trump's false suggestion she's not eligible to run for president

Donald Trump on Friday again referred to his GOP challenger Nikki Haley by a mangled version of her birth name, this time calling her «Nimbra.»

«Nimbra doesn't have what it takes,» Trump wrote on his social media platform after earlier this week referring to her as «Nikki 'Nimrada' Haley.»

On Thursday night, Haley responded to Trump's recent attacks, including his reposting of a false claim that she is not eligible to run for president because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born.

During a CNN town hall, Trump's former U.N. ambassador responded to a question about Trump's name-calling.

«I know President Trump well. That's what he does when he feels threatened. That's what he does when he feels insecure,» she told CNN's Jake Tapper.

«It doesn't bother me. I know him very well. And this is what he does. I know that I am a threat. So, it's not going to waste any energy for me. I'm going to continue to focus on the things that people want to talk about. And not get into the name-calling back with him.»

Haley was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa to Punjabi Sikh parents who were living in South Carolina after emigrating from India in the 1960s. She has said that early on she adopted her middle name as her first name and later took her husband's last name when they married.

Asked by Tapper about Trump promoting the false claim that she is not eligible to be president because her parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth, she responded, «Well, first, I am the proud daughter of Bamberg, South Carolina, so I love my sweet town and I'm proud to say I'm from there,» she said. " … we can throw that out the window."

Trump famously promoted false so-called «birther» claims about Barack Obama being born in Kenya