In new book, Donald Trump’s former UN ambassador Nikki Haley alleges disloyalty among some of president’s team
- She recounts how Rex Tillerson and John Kelly, who have both since been fired from the administration, told her they were trying to ‘save the country’ by resisting President Donald Trump
In With All Due Respect, Haley said secretary of state at the time, Rex Tillerson, and then-White House chief of staff John Kelly told her that they were trying to “save the country”. Haley writes that she was “shocked” by the request, made during a closed-door meeting, and thought they were only trying to put their own imprint on his policies.
“Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they were not 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 … Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president’s decisions was because, if he didn’t, people would die.”
The former South Carolina governor said the meeting lasted more than an hour and that they never raised the issue to her again.
