Nikki Haley claims top aides tried to recruit her to 'save the country' by undermining Trump

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post



NEW YORK — Two of President Trump’s senior advisers undermined and ignored him in what they claimed was an effort to “save the country,” former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley claims in a new memoir.

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly sought to recruit her to work around and subvert Trump, but she refused, Haley writes in a new book, “With All Due Respect,” which also describes Tillerson as “exhausting” and imperious and Kelly as suspicious of her access to Trump. “Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country,” Haley wrote.

“It was their decisions, not the president’s, that were in the best interests of America, they said. The president didn’t know what he was doing,” Haley wrote of the views the two men held. Tillerson also told her that people would die if Trump was unchecked, Haley wrote.

Tillerson did not respond to a request for comment. Kelly declined to comment in detail, but said that if providing the president “with the best and most open, legal and ethical staffing advice from across the [government] so he could make an informed decision is ‘working against Trump,’ then guilty as charged.”

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[catbyte]

1. So she took the coward's way out and backed the wrong horse. Fuck her.

[demmiblue]

13. Cosigned. n/t

[Mickju]

28. Agree

She is vile.

[rzemanfl]

2. I do not care what that woman has to say.

It is hard to imagine Tillerson trying to "save the country."

[dewsgirl]

7. You know honestly, he may have been. I know, hard to

believe of the Russian friendship medal recipient.

[rzemanfl]

15. Have you read Rachel Maddow's latest book?

That makes it even harder to imagine. I am going to swim and get sun to take my mind off Trumpist Dumbfuckistan for a few hours.

[dewsgirl]

17. Yes I have. Even if only to keep up his big oil grift going.

Enjoy yourself.☺

[rzemanfl]

35. Well, there's that scam. I did enjoy myself. n/t

[Jarqui]

3. She's setting the table to be seen by Trump's base as one who was not a part of

removing Trump from power.

[Frances]

6. Agree

She wants to ingratiate herself with Trump’s followers
More importantly, she wants to undermine criticisms of the president
She doesn’t care for the country any more than Trump
Tillotson was a greedy Republican but he didn’t want to report to Russia via Trump
He wanted the US to be strong so very wealthy men like himself would be free

[Sucha NastyWoman]

34. I think Pence might need to inform Mother that he may

Be looking for a new job soon

[LakeArenal]

4. Liars lie. Crooks are crooks. Traitors are traitors.

[tanyev]

5. You think that makes you look good, Nikki?

[Roy Rolling]

8. Really?

Don’t flatter yourself, lady. They were as dumb to recruit you as they were to work under Trump in the first place. A third stooge wouldn’t have saved the country any more than “Dumb and Dumberer” made “Dumb and Dumber” a great movie franchise.

[BlueIdaho]

9. Makes ya proud to be an American - huh? nt.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. When Trump goes down, he'll take a lot of people down with him.

[Scarsdale]

19. We can only

hope that will be the case. I know he will not take the blame for any of this, so it has to be someone else's fault. Will he ever get around to his closest advisors, Iwanka and Jarrod?

[flying_wahini]

11. The GOP are getting her ready to run in the event Trump is Out. THIS election.

It would placate all the Repug women. Maybe Mitt the Twit’s running mate.

[patricia92243]

12. bingo

[Dream Girl]

20. Yep. They are setting the table for 2020. Trump won't run and it will likely be her and Mittor mayb

Kasek who’s been circling around Trump like a vulture for years.Just waiting for the implosion.

[Progressive Jones]

40. She's just going to be another puppet for the right wing coup, like Trump.

Who the President happens to be doesn't matter to the right wing coup,
as long as it's a loyal puppet.
Republicans never put leaders in the WH. Simply puppets.

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. She really is a True Believer.

I always thought she was of the same ilk as Tillerson and Kelly. Like they she's still an unrepentant corporatist welfare queen, and still supports the big tax giveaway bill, along with cuts in benefits and services to the "little people" to pay for them. But took the job to help Donald not be so crazy.

But she's beyond that it looks like. She supports his crazy. Totally absorbed into his cult.

[stopdiggin]

16. also the tidbit floating around

about a replacement for Pence as running mate. (whether there's an iota of truth or not) So the toadying may be connected to some self promotion and self interest.
In any event .. if you have reason to interact or encounter this woman in the next 20-30 years .. RUN!

[JohnnyRingo]

18. The way I hear this is "others defied Trump to save the country..."

"...but I would have none of that".

To someone who thinks Trump is a stable genius, she's a real hero. To me, she put party above country.

[benld74]

21. They are all alike

Power loving
Power grabbing
Know nothings
Who believe they are leaders

Anyone spouting unintelligent gibberish that cannot
Stand on its own
Should be removed
From office
nt

[winstars]

22. Rex and Kelly: "help save the country..." Haley: "No way man, fuck off!!!' She is an idiot

[McKim]

36. Tillerson: Out for The Interests of Big Oil

Tillerson was out to save the interests of Big Oil. These corporate types are suffering from the delusion that they are leaders, they are NOT!

[Maeve]

23. Self over country. What a choice. There are words to describe that, but I leave it alone. eom

[CatMor]

24. She is so highly overrated....

mainly by herself.

[Strelnikov_]

25. Pence may as well start packing

he is going to be forced out to make way for a "Hail Haley" play.

[IronLionZion]

26. Sounds like Operation Valkyrie

"Spare Me"

"No one will be spared"

[paleotn]

32. Exactly what I was thinking...

She plays a pretty good Gen. Friedrich Fromm.

[NCjack]

27. No problem, Nikki. I always knew you were a Trumper. nt

[BootinUp]

29. She wants to succeed Trump. nt

[pnwmom]

30. One way or another, she'll be on their ticket. So if we have an all-male ticket, we can forget

about winning.

All of the R women and a good chunk of Independents and even some dumb Democrats will be drawn to her.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

31. So she decided to be a good German and stick with Trump

[BamaRefugee]

33. How bravely she turned and ran! Hey wait, shouldn't she "go back to where she came from" per Trump?

[ChubbyStar]

37. Brave Sir Robin

Monty Python: The Holy Grail.

[IronLionZion]

39. Back to South Carolina, where she was born?

Trump keeps a few token minorities around to prove he's not racist.

[bucolic_frolic]

38. She declined to side with patriots

you know what that makes her. And she's bragging about it!

[SWBTATTReg]

41. Got a feeling that she's just burned her bridges w/ just about everybody that worked w/...

her in the past or in the future. Nothing like throwing people under the bridge, eh? I don't trust her either. She has that look about her, and that she's a total political animal, more interested in herself than anyone else (why else do 'most' people get into government? IMHO, to help others). Selfish and all about her.

[NotASurfer]

42. That's some mighty fine branding on her part. Save the country?

And her answer is "thank you, but no"

Just something to remind her about whenever she speaks.

[Marthe48]

43. Why?

After trumpskie's comments about her in 2016, she crawls to him for a job. Weak-willed, eye on her personal benefit, not a patriot. Hope she goes down on trumpskie's ship of fools.

[raccoon]

44. So, why didn't she, doesn't she love her country? Nt