Rex Tillerson denies he tried to undermine Trump, says Nikki Haley was 'rarely present' at meetings
Source: Washington Post
Former secretary of state Rex Tillerson denied Monday that he sought to undermine or work against President Trump, as former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley claims in a new memoir of her time in the administration. During my service to our country as the Secretary of State, at no time did I, nor to my direct knowledge did anyone else serving along with me, take any actions to undermine the President, Tillerson said in a statement to The Washington Post.
My conversations with the President in the privacy of the Oval Office were always candid, frank, and my recommendations straightforward. Once the President made a decision, we at the State Department undertook our best efforts to implement that decision, Tillerson said. Ambassador Haley was rarely a participant in my many meetings and is not in a position to know what I may or may not have said to the President. I continue to be proud of my service as our countrys 69th Secretary of State. The statement was Tillersons first response to Haleys characterization of a White House meeting in which she said he and John F. Kelly, then Trumps chief of staff, told her that they were seeking ways around Trump to save the country.
Haley wrote that after an Oval Office disagreement over U.N. funding for Palestinians, Tillerson and Kelly argued to her that she should work with them to divert U.S. policy from what they considered reckless Trump policies. She refused, she wrote in the new book, With All Due Respect. Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they werent being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country, Haley wrote. It was their decisions, not the presidents, that were in the best interests of America, they said. The president didnt know what he was doing, Haley wrote. Tillerson also told her that people would die if Trump was unchecked, Haley wrote.
Haley also described Tillerson as arrogant and condescending, and said he resented her access to Trump. Tillerson did not address those allegations directly. It was no secret that Rex and I had our differences, Haley wrote early in the book. He gave off the unmistakable impression that he knew more than everyone else in the room including the president, she wrote. Dealing with Rex could be exhausting. Trumps relationship with Tillerson, a former Exxon Mobil chief executive, deteriorated over Trumps first year in office. The two disagreed over policies including U.S. participation in the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord, and Trump came to see Tillerson as opposed to his America First agenda of immigration restrictions and international disengagement.
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madaboutharry
(40,210 posts)Remember when she endorsed Marco Rubio? She was at his rallies and was all like Not Trump!
She is an opportunist.
vapor2
(1,248 posts)either. She is another sycophant with selfish, political motives.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)a "fucking moron." He was right about that, about the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord.
I also believe that Rex Tillerson DID know more than most people in the room, including Haley. I do not trust her. She is a better looking version of trump, but every bit as deceitful and dishonest. And ambitious. Don't underestimate her ambitions.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)He's a straight shooter with at least a global perspective!
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)Everyone in that room knew more that Trump...he didn't suddenly become a genius after taking office.
What a kiss ass
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Nikki should have known better. Tillerson isn't to be jerked around.
drray23
(7,627 posts)In the event she runs in 2024.
spooky3
(34,451 posts)I have no confidence in either of them.
DavidDvorkin
(19,477 posts)I'm torn.
Golden Raisin
(4,608 posts)Both agreed to work with this slimy, corrupt regime, which speaks volumes (all negative). For better or worse he was already established as a powerful CEO and elite corporate player of long experience, and a known quantity. She seems to be all brazen ambition and having difficulty hiding it as she now tries to advance her political position/future.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)And both badly eroded the Department they worked for!
But if I had to choose between them, there's no question but that Tillerson is the much the lesser of two evils.
Thanks heavens, I never will have to choose between either.
I would say thank heavens that Tillerson is gone. But Pompeo is at least a hundred times worse and is a complete toady.
Cha
(297,200 posts)Mahalo, BRDS!
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Haley definitely has further political ambitions.
truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)Double dose!
truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)Shes sitting on a tree stump like a vulture, waiting for her chance to pick the carcass clean.
keithbvadu2
(36,796 posts)If she's a liar, she qualifies as a Trumpster.
oldsoftie
(12,534 posts)Paka
(2,760 posts)She is a snake in the grass. Evil and dangerous.
PatSeg
(47,428 posts)trustworthy, though right now I trust Nikki Haley the least. That's not saying much however, as Tillerson appears to have been Putin's choice for Secretary of State.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)disndat
(1,887 posts)a Trump/Haley GOP ticket 2020.
bonniebgood
(943 posts)to fit in with the GOP. she changed religion, religious dress code to mega hat dress code. What a fake.
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)it's like watching Goebbels complain that Josef Mengele was undermining Hitler.
Nazis all of them.
Grins
(7,217 posts)Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)is too smart to tell her what he's thinking.