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The stepping down of Haley
has left White House with one
less moderate Republican voice
on Trump cabinet’s foreign
policy team.
Haley, a former governor of
South Carolina, had been an
early and recurrent critic of
Trump, attracting frequent
admiration.
Haley was born in South
Carolina to an Indian-
American Sikh family. She
earned international attention
for speaking out against the
Confederate battle flag in the
aftermath of the 2015 massacre
at a black church in Charleston.
According to Michael Wolff’s
book Fire and Fury: Inside the
Trump White House, Haley is
harboring presidential drives
and many in president Donald
Trump’s inner circle fear that
she could be the heir to the
presidency. Wolff, in his book,
claims Haley has an eye on
the presidency and Trump is
seen to be grooming her for a
national political future.
making process,’” she told
CNN in a 2017 interview,
recalling the conversation with
Trump. “He said, ‘done.’ And
I said, ‘I don’t want to be a
wallflower or a talking head. I
want to be able to speak my
mind.’ He said, ‘That is why
I asked you to do this.’ In all
honesty, I didn’t think they
were going to take me up on
everything I asked for. And
they gave me all that. So how
do you turn that down?”
Throughout her over a year-
and-a-half on the job, she has
recurrently spoken her mind,
whether it’s going further on
human rights than numerous
of her administration
colleagues or censuring
racism at home.
Describing Haley as an
“extraordinary person”, Donald
Trump has said she “going to
make a lot of money” in the
private sector, which she
intends to join.
In her resignation letter, she
had hinted that she is headed
to the private sector after two
years at the UN.
Trump further said he is sure
that his daughter Ivanka
Trump would be “dynamite”
as the U.S. ambassador
to the United Nations, but
admitted that he would be
“accused of nepotism” if he
has chosen her to succeed
Nikki Haley.
Shortly after the President’s
remarks, Ivanka Trump took
to Twitter to rule herself
out of the running for an
ambassadorship.
An umpteen Indian-American
officials and leaders in the
U.S. has said Nikki Haley
served as a great advocate
of India-U.S. relationship.
Haley - “as ambitious as
Lucifer”, in the characterization
of one member of the senior
staff - had concluded that
Trump’s tenure would last, at
best, a single term and that she,
with requisite submission, could
be his heir apparent, Wolff
writes.
“I said ‘I am a policy girl, I want
to be part of the decision-
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