Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley says in a new book that two of President Trump’s top aides “resisted” carrying out his policies because the aides claimed they were trying to “save the country.”
Haley, in her book With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace, recounts a meeting she had with former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
The meeting, she says, took place in Kelly’s office in the White House. Both men tried to recruit her to their side, she alleges.
“Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country. 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, summarizing what she says was their views.
“… Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president’s decisions was because, if he didn’t, people would die. This was how high the stakes were, he and Kelly told me. We are doing the best we can do to save the country, they said. We need you to work with us and help us do it. This went on for over an hour.”
Haley, though, disagreed with their strategy, which she says involved resisting Trump on major campaign…
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