nikki haley said former secretary of Mike Pompeo’s claim that she planned to replace Mike Pence as Donald Trump’s vice president was “lies and gossip to sell the book.”
former UN Ambassador in an interview with Fox News on Thursday evening, after The Guardian received a copy of Pompeo’s forthcoming memoir Never Back an Inch and reported on his comments about Haley.
Haley left the Trump administration in October 2018. Until then, Pompeo says she set up a personal meeting with Trump in Oval Office Unchecked with to him.
Pompeo writes that John Kelly, then head of Trump of employees, thought Hayley in fact accompanied by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner as they presented ” possible Hailey for Vice President’ option”.
Pompeo also writes unfavorably of Hailey performance UN ambassador and criticizes her resignation.
In an interview with Fox News, Hailey said, “I don’t know why did he say that, but that’s why I stayed out of DC as much as possible to get away from the drama.”
She also indicated out that Pompeo says in he did not know if story is true.
Haley and Pompeo among possible applicants for Republican presidential nomination in 2024, competition in what trump remains the only confirmed candidate.
But Hailey seems set to run.
She told Fox News, “We’re still working on it and we’ll figure it all out.” out. i never lost race. I said it then, I say it now. Now I won’t lose.”
Hailey turns 51 on Friday. In a remark apparently addressed to Joe Biden: who 80 but also Donald Trump, who 76 years old, she said, “I don’t think you need become a leader at 80 in COLUMBIA REGION. I think we need a young future generation in, step up and indeed start fixing things. Can I be that leader? Yes, I think I can be that leader.”
former Governor of South Carolina attracted support from Kushner family. She told Fox News that Kushner and his wife were her friends, although she expected them to be. support Ivanka father.
She said, “Let best woman win”.
Pence, Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, and even former national security adviser John Bolton among others possible candidates for nomination from the Republican Party. But the two men, Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, still dominate the polls.
Thursday Ben Rhodes former foreign policy Barack Obama Advisor, wrote: “Pompeo and Hailey are ready for a real battle to see who can crack 1% in Republican primaries.
Description of Pompeo of Hayley’s supposed meeting with Trump called back with reports that in 2019 prompted Trump to deny the possibility of replacing Pence as vice president.
Thursday Maggie Haberman, New York Times reporter and writer of bestseller “The Confident Man: Creation” of Donald Trump and the Gap of America, noted that Kushner and Ivanka Trump “insisted on not believing colleagues and Pence’s allies that they didn’t have role in rumors about Hayley/VP.”
