{"id":1316,"date":"2019-11-10T21:18:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T21:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/finance\/2019\/11\/10\/nikki-haley-says-top-white-house-advisers-tried-to-subvert-trump\/"},"modified":"2019-11-10T21:18:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T21:18:58","slug":"nikki-haley-says-top-white-house-advisers-tried-to-subvert-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2019\/11\/10\/nikki-haley-says-top-white-house-advisers-tried-to-subvert-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley says top White House advisers tried to subvert Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<blockquote class=\"shareable\" data-share-hover=\"true\" data-share-modprefix=\"mw_pullquote_\" data-share-text=\"Nikki Haley says top White House advisers tried to subvert Trump\"><p>&#13;<br \/>\n                  \u2018[John] Kelly and [Rex] Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren\u2019t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country.\u2019&#13;<\/p>\n<footer>&#13;<br \/>\n                      &#13;<br \/>\n                  <\/footer>\n<p>&#13;\n              <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s how Nikki Haley, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, described attempts by President Trump\u2019s former advisers to recruit her to undermine his authority, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/nikki-haley-claims-top-aides-tried-to-recruit-her-to-save-the-country-by-undermining-trump\/2019\/11\/10\/f92bac88-0267-11ea-9518-1e76abc088b6_story.html\" target=\"_new\" class=\"icon \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was their decisions, not the president\u2019s, that were in the best interests of America, they said. The president didn\u2019t know what he was doing,\u201d Haley, who resigned her position in 2018, said of their views.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Haley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nikki-haley-i-was-asked-by-cabinet-members-to-take-sides-against-the-president\/\" target=\"_new\" class=\"icon \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told CBS<\/a> she didn\u2019t like having Tillerson and Kelly confide in her. \u201cInstead of saying that to me, they should\u2019ve been saying that to the president, not asking me to join them on their sidebar plan,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly defended himself in a response to CBS. \u201cIf by resistance and stalling she means putting a staff process in place \u2026 to ensure the (president) knew all the pros and cons of what policy decision he might be contemplating so he could make an informed decision, then guilty as charged,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Haley\u2019s thoughts on impeachment from the same interview:<\/p>\n<div class=\"inset external-content-inset \" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorahODonnell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@norahodonnell<\/a>: &#8220;Do you think ultimately [POTUS] will be impeached &amp; removed from office?&#8221; <br \/>Nikki Haley: &#8220;No. On what? You&#8217;re going to impeach a president for asking for a favor that didn&#8217;t happen &amp; giving money &amp; it wasn&#8217;t withheld? I don&#8217;t know what you would impeach him on.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GtSwBokVkU\">pic.twitter.com\/GtSwBokVkU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSEveningNews\/status\/1193038050697400321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>In her memoir, \u201cWith all due respect,\u201d which was obtained by the Post and comes out Tuesday, Haley explained that she and others had an obligation to carry out Trump\u2019s directives since he was elected by voters. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- \/1035677\/marketwatch_ --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"jobbi-after-content-jh-placement jobbi-entity-placement\" id=\"jobbi-828167527\"><div id=\"jobbi-3759460510\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5862940809620110\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5862940809620110\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; \u2018[John] Kelly and [Rex] Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren\u2019t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country.\u2019&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; That\u2019s how Nikki Haley, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, described attempts by President Trump\u2019s former advisers to recruit her to undermine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348,"featured_media":1317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}