COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said Thursday she wishes Donald Trump communicated differently because bad things result from divisive rhetoric, as evidenced by last June’s massacre in Charleston.

The Republican governor said divisive speech motivated Dylann Roof to gun down nine black parishioners at historic Emanuel AME Church. Police have said the white 22-year-old charged with their killings wanted to start a race war.

The Confederate flag that Roof was seen brandishing in photos had to be removed from the State House grounds, she said, and she supports sending the rebel flag in The Citadel’s chapel to a museum, too. But she opposes renaming buildings or monuments associated with the state’s racist past.

Haley, who had endorsed then-candidate Marco Rubio, said she has criticized Trump because ‘‘I know what that rhetoric can do. I saw it happen.’’

She said she doesn’t think people who support Trump are racist or haters.

‘‘That’s a different kind of anger. They’re upset with Washington, D.C. They’re upset nothing’s got done,’’ she said. ‘‘The way he communicates, that I wish were different.’’

Trump has a responsibility for the country’s well-being to use a civil, respectful tone, she told reporters two weeks ahead of the anniversary of the Emanuel shooting.

Less than a month after the shooting, the Legislature — at Haley’s urging — voted to remove the Confederate flag from the State House’s front lawn.

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Ex-aide to Clinton intends to decline to testify on e-mails

WASHINGTON — The ex-staffer who set up former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s home e-mail server intends to refuse to testify, again, in an upcoming deposition.

Lawyers for Bryan Pagliano said in a court motion filed Wednesday that he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at a deposition next week.

A federal judge last month granted a request from the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch to question six current and former State Department aides about the 2009 creation of the private e-mail system used by Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Pagliano previously refused to testify before Congress. He has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors in a separate FBI probe into whether classified information that flowed through Clinton’s server was mishandled. Clinton is expected to be interviewed soon.

A separate review by the State Department’s inspector general concluded last month that Clinton and her team ignored clear internal guidance that her e-mail setup broke federal standards and could have left sensitive material vulnerable to hackers. Clinton has called her decision to rely on the private server a mistake but contends she violated no laws.

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