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Donald Trump announced Nikki Haley's resignation as the UN Ambassador. |
Her resignation took most people by surprise and raised speculation about her future plans, which might include a campaign for president.
Sitting next to Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Haley said she has no plans to run for president in 2020. In fact, she said, she would be campaigning for "this one," pointing at Trump.
"it has been an honor of a lifetime" serving as UN ambassador, but that it was time to depart the administration, reports said.
"There's no personal reason," she added. "It's very important for government officials to understand when it's time to step aside," the CNN report quoted her as saying.
"I want to make sure this administration, this president, has the strongest person to fight," she said.
"it has been an honor of a lifetime" serving as UN ambassador, but that it was time to depart the administration, reports said.
"There's no personal reason," she added. "It's very important for government officials to understand when it's time to step aside," the CNN report quoted her as saying.
"I want to make sure this administration, this president, has the strongest person to fight," she said.
The daughter of immigrants from India, Haley favored free markets and global trade and earned international attention for speaking out against the Confederate battle flag after nine black churchgoers were massacred in 2015 in Charleston.
Compared to other members of Trump's team, Haley nurutred the image of a moderate Republican. During the 2016 presidential campaign, she campaigned for Marco Rubio and was strongly critical of Trump.
Although she disagreed with the White House on some issues, she was also Trump's stanchest defenders to the global, sometimes embrassingly so. Most recently, when the UN envoys laughed at Trump during the UN General Assembly, Haley said the laughter was a sign of respect Trump.
The former governor of South Carolina often used the big stick, threatening that the U.S. was "taking names" of those countries opposed to U.S. interests, while at the same time using her southern charm to disarm other diplomats.
Haley was a strong critic of Russia despite Trump's apparent chumminess with Russia's leaders and also fiercely critical of what she believed was the diplomats' anti-Israel bias.
She also supported shutting off US funding for the UN's Palestinian refugee agency and revelled in defending the Trump administration's decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in the face of an acid show of international criticism.
Jamil Dakwar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program, didn't mince word in his comments: “History books will remember Nikki Haley as a key player in the Trump administration’s campaign to undermine universal human rights and international bodies. During her tenure, the Trump administration withdrew from the U.N. Human Rights Council and UNESCO, pulled out of the negotiations leading up to the Global Compact on Migration, and attacked a U.N. independent human rights expert investigating poverty in the United States…”
"Now, the United States is respected," said Haley
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