Nikki Haley claims that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson & former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly sought to recruit her to work around and subvert Trump to save the country.
She chose Trump instead of the country. Not interested in her book.https://t.co/xEpPHfgjdN
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) November 10, 2019
New: Nikki Haley is running for president in 2024. https://t.co/uYYM2PlMWv
— Jim Antle (@jimantle) November 10, 2019
Conventional wisdom, any time over the last forty years, has been that the first female president would be a Republican. (Or, we should amend, the first female winner of the popular vote allowed to take her earned seat in the Oval Office.) Nikki Haley has been working to be that woman for most of her adult life, but her best shot — and her new memoir — arrive at a tricksy point in the current electoral cycle: She can’t afford to denounce the sitting Republican president, for fear of angering his (Deplorable) base. But she can’t risk applauding too publicly someone who might be impeached, or worse, before her book tour is well under way.
Solution: Embrace the Oval Office Occupant; blame any ‘mistakes’ on the people around him. Even better, on the people who were around him, but have since been dismissed!
But Haley wanted nothing to do with saving the country pic.twitter.com/xofmX5mOJV
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 10, 2019
I like how in the Haley article there’s no mention of her and any other Trump staffer or appointee having a good relationship.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 10, 2019
… In the book, which was obtained by The Washington Post ahead of its release Tuesday, Haley offers only glancing critiques of her former boss, saying she and others who worked for Trump had an obligation to carry out his wishes since he was the one elected by voters.
The former South Carolina governor, widely viewed by Republicans as a top potential presidential candidate in 2024, has repeatedly sought to minimize differences with Trump while distancing herself from his excesses. Haley, 47, writes that she backed most of the foreign policy decisions by Trump that others tried to block or slow down, including withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord and the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
In a New York City interview with The Post coinciding with the book release, Haley also dismissed efforts by House Democrats to impeach Trump. She said she opposes Trump’s efforts to seek foreign help for political investigations in a call with Ukraine’s president, but that the actions are not impeachable.
“There was no heavy demand insisting that something had to happen. So it’s hard for me to understand where the whole impeachment situation is coming from, because what everybody’s up in arms about didn’t happen,” Haley said…
No, the death penalty is like the death penalty. Impeachment is like getting fired. https://t.co/bBEHqimWXe
— Seth Masket (@smotus) November 9, 2019
Maybe Nikki Haley would be more comfortable if instead of thinking of impeachment as the death penalty she viewed it as just another failed Trump business endeavor.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 9, 2019
I mean, come on, if he succeeded at this it would be an outlier.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 9, 2019
Baud
They all did.
TaMara (HFG)
She was on CBS Sunday Morning and I couldn’t fast-forward fast enough. She’s disgusting.
Adam L Silverman
Bless her heart.
trollhattan
In some strategy room is a plot to get Nikki Haley into the WH. Kathleen Parker is doing her bit.
She’s wretched. (Which “she”? No need to decide.)
Steeplejack
@trollhattan:
Please, no more Kathleen Parker! I’m still reeling from her “Clarence Thomas—great justice or greatest justice?” piece last week. Apparently she’s gunning for a single-digit tumbrel number.
Anya
I can’t believe Kelly and Tillerson have better moral compass than NH. Nikki Hayley is an opportunist. She doesn’t have any believes or principles. All of her policies are based on whatever is popular with the deplorables at any given time. The only thing that’s off limits (to some extent) is white supremacy. She will pretend it’s not a problem but she won’t outright support it.
geg6
Oh please, fuck off Nikki Haley. Disgusting piece of shit.
dmsilev
@trollhattan: Speaking of WaPo pundits, if you want some hilarity, check out Hugh Hewitt’s latest column, in which he gets all pissy because commenters in his previous column pointed out that he is a partisan hack. And then, his suggestion for how the GOP Senate should handle Trump’s inevitable impeachment is to use a bunch of arcane parliamentary maneuvers that requires basically all of the GOP caucus to act to acquit Trump without voting to acquit him, which I’m sure will go over real well with e.g. Susan Collins (who would desperately like for the whole thing to go away, but not to have any of her fingerprints on the away-going-causation).
Edit: Sample comment: “Hey, jerkwad, the majority of this country supports impeachment, and with good reason.”. Guess the Post’s moderation team doesn’t think much of Hewitt either
Another: “There will be an accounting for amoral pigs like you. You are a white nationalist nazi sympathizing coward.”.
Mike in NC
Any quick review of Nikki Haley’s time as governor of SC will reveal what an odious person she is. Even so far as to let other Republicans think she’s Native American.
Kay
Trump loyalist gets her reward:
Gross.They’re coordinating on marketing.
schrodingers_cat
@TaMara (HFG): Agreed. I find Piyush Jindal and Nimrata Randhawa Haley beyond contempt.
schrodingers_cat
@TaMara (HFG): Agreed. I find Piyush Jindal and Nimrata Randhawa Haley beneath contempt.
Ohio Mom
Haley is very poised — she has a real presence. She is also a very smooth liar, she is totally calculating. If she’s not setting herself up to run for President one day, she is certainly doing a very good imitation of someone who is aiming for the White House.
I hate to think that we Democrats are paving the way for Haley by normalizing women running for the presidency. When Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin ran for VP, they were novelties.
Now we’ve had Hillary, Warren, Harris, Klobuchar, Gillibrand, and the two I don’t bother to mention by name. It’s not surprising or unexpected to see a woman candidate anymore.
A lot of things can and will happen, I won’t worry about Haley right now. But she does make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. She’s scary in her absolute untrustworthiness.
schrodingers_cat
My schaden is freuded. In Maharashtra’s BJP’s electoral alliance with Shiv Sena has broken down. And they won’t be forming the state government, inspite of winning the most seats.
RAVEN
Crimson flames tied through my ears, rollin’ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps
“We’ll meet on edges, soon, ” said I, proud ‘neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now
Kay
@trollhattan:
They’re bad at it though. They all thought Marco Rubio was going to be President. Look who they have.
Mary G
@Kay: You really want to see disgusting, here’s her response:
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
Michael Wolff did allude to Haley having an affair with Dump.
Kay
Just wild how much more Americans pay than anywhere else. It’s like a corruption tax.
Kay
@Mary G:
I don’t know that I would have gone all-in on Trumpism if I were her. A lot can change in 5 years, and she has to run outside South Carolina if she wants to be president.
Ken
Wait, now Republicans think the death penalty is a bad thing?
Ksmiami
@Mary G: good let her fate be bound up with Trump/ we will put them through hell
sdhays
So, withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid isn’t a “heavy demand”? Tell me, Haley, what the f*ck would a “heavy demand” be, then?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Anya:
Well, these are the people that shocked John Bolton of all people. I mean it’s possible to a crook and not be a traitor.
geg6
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Exactly.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kay: Trump wants a Trump to succeed him.
Redshift
@Ohio Mom:
I don’t really get the concern. It’s not like the male Republicans are any less bad.
Jeffro
@Kay: Someone should ask Nikki why she checked out (officially, that is) from the administration shortly after Khashoggi’s murder. It’s almost like she knew that someone within the WH had greenlit AK’s kidnapping/rendition/murder and didn’t want to be around when the other shoe dropped.
Now, she’s like…”they didn’t get him for it?” Trumpov/Kushner paid no price? It’s…it’s like a brave new world, where no one gets held accountable for ANYTHING! I think I’ll write a book, mildly praise trumpov (to keep myself viable with the rubes) and see how it all shakes out! Booya!
John Revolta
Know what ELSE is the death penalty for a public official? The Presidency. After the President leaves office, his political career is over, one way or the other.
Also: conventional wisdom always told us that the first Black President would be a Republican.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@John Revolta: John Quincy Adams was a member of the House in his post-Presidency.
Jeffro
@sdhays: This is what they ALWAYS do: downplay any immoral/unethical/norm-busting/law-breaking thing that a trumpublican does, when they know full well that it would be the death knell for any Democrat.
That’s why I return to this again and again, and I hope Dems will use it from now until the end of time: pick a standard. GOP. Any standard. High or low. Complex or not. Anything at all under the sun…and agree that it is the standard for both trumpublicans and Democrats.
Using insecure email/WhatsApp/etc?
Having one’s children as WH advisers? (And getting them security clearances they would never have had on their own, to boot?)
Keeping hold of one’s business interests even after one takes the Oath of Office?
Using social media on a daily basis to target American citizens? Businesses? Bash whole groups of Americans?
Spending 1/3 of one’s days at one’s own golf course (or other recreational facility)?
And on and on…
In theory, the GOP should be okay with President Malia Obama spending two days of every week at her water park, with the Secret Service floating along in the ‘lazy river’ at taxpayer expense.
In theory, the GOP should be okay with President Chelsea Clinton spending most of her day, all day, every day posting pictures of her favorite liberal pundits and causes on Instagram.
In theory, the GOP should be okay with President Hunter Biden banging porn stars and paying them (via a Delaware shell corporation, no less, LOL!) to keep quiet during his campaign.
In theory, the GOP should be okay with the Klobuchar family engaging in multigenerational tax fraud, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
In theory, the GOP should be okay with President Harris telling Taiwan that unless the president of Taiwan gets in front of a camera and announces the start of an investigation into Nikki Haley for unbridled corruption and graft, they will not get hundreds of $M in defense aid to protect against Chinese aggression. Oh and THEN with President Harris insisting this was a ‘perfect call’. Oh and THEN with President Harris demanding to know who blew the whistle on her bribery/extortion attempt.
YOU’RE GOOD WITH ALL OF THAT GOING FORWARD, RIGHT GOP?
John Revolta
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, and let’s not forget Grover Cleveland!!
Ohio Mom
@Redshift: Agree, they all stink. But after watching videos of Haley, she seems much a smoother operator than most of the Republicans.
Also, I could imagine suburban women (the people we are hoping Trump is driving into our arms) going for her because they think women are nicer than men and she reminds them of themselves. And they’ll get to see themselves as trendy for supporting a women.
Keith P.
@John Revolta: It not only ended that President who failed to get elected to mayor of Mooseport@John Revolta: Anything short of SCOTUS would be a step down for a former President (and really, so would SCOTUS, except it’s a lifetime appointment where you largely self-police), plus the money for speeches (or watercolors) is too good to do some cush job like mayor of Mooseport.
dnfree
@RAVEN: one of my favorites! I actually posted it for Ta-Nehisi Coates back when he had his blog on The Atlantic.
hells littlest angel
Shorter Nikki Haley: ‘Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I’ve seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”… and I’ll look down, and whisper “No.”‘
?BillinGlendaleCA
@John Revolta: Or Andrew Johnson, he was a US Senator in 1875.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Keith P.: William Howard Taft was Chief Justice of the United State in his post-Presidential years.
hitchhiker
All I can say is that if Ms Haley comes to Seattle to sell her book, she’s not going to enjoy the welcome we’ll prepare for her.
She’s never, ever gonna wash the trump-stink off her hands.
Ladyraxterinok
For a while many believed the 1st woman POTUS would be Elizabeth Dole. Then some few thought Kay Bailey Hutchinson of TX