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Nikki Haley said the erstwhile caput of authorities Mike Pompeo’s claim that she plotted to regenerate Mike Pence arsenic Donald Trump’s vice-president was “lies and gossip to merchantability a book”.
The erstwhile United Nations ambassador spoke to Fox News connected Thursday evening, aft the Guardian obtained a transcript of Pompeo’s forthcoming memoir, Never Give An Inch, and reported his comments astir Haley.
Haley resigned from the Trump administration successful October 2018. Before that, Pompeo says, she acceptable up a idiosyncratic gathering with Trump successful the Oval Office without checking with him.
Pompeo writes that John Kelly, past Trump’s main of staff, thought Haley had successful information been accompanied by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner arsenic they presented “a imaginable ‘Haley for vice-president’ option”.
Pompeo besides writes unfavourably of Haley’s show arsenic UN ambassador and criticises her resignation.
Speaking to Fox News, Haley said: “I don’t cognize wherefore helium said it, but that’s precisely wherefore I stayed retired of DC arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, to get distant from the drama.”
She besides pointed retired that Pompeo says successful his publication helium does not cognize if the communicative is true.
Haley and Pompeo are among imaginable contenders for the Republican statesmanlike information successful 2024, a contention successful which Trump remains the lone confirmed candidate.
But Haley seems acceptable to run.
She told Fox News: “We are inactive moving done things and we’ll fig it out. I’ve ne'er mislaid a race. I said that past I inactive accidental that now. I’m not going to suffer now.”
Haley turns 51 connected Friday. In a remark seemingly directed astatine Joe Biden, who is 80, but besides Donald Trump, who is 76, she said: “I don’t deliberation you request to beryllium 80 years aged to spell beryllium a person successful DC. I deliberation we request a young procreation to travel in, measurement up and truly commencement fixing things. Can I beryllium that leader? Yes, I deliberation I tin beryllium that leader.”
The erstwhile South Carolina politician has attracted enactment from Kushner’s family. She told Fox News Kushner and his woman were her friends, though she expected they would enactment Ivanka’s father.
She said: “May the champion pistillate win.”
Pence, the senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley and adjacent the erstwhile nationalist information advisor John Bolton are among different imaginable candidates for the Republican nomination. But 2 men, Trump and the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, predominate polling truthful far.
On Thursday, Ben Rhodes, a erstwhile overseas argumentation advisor to Barack Obama, wrote: “Pompeo and Haley poised for a existent conflict to spot who tin ace 1% successful a Republican primary.”
Pompeo’s statement of Haley’s expected gathering with Trump chimed with reports that successful 2019 prompted Trump to contradict considering replacing Pence arsenic vice-president.
On Thursday, Maggie Haberman, the New York Times newsman and writer of the bestselling publication Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, noted that Kushner and Ivanka Trump “insisted to disbelieving colleagues and Pence allies that they had nary relation successful the Haley/VP rumors”.
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