Former US Ambassador Nikki Haley Claims White House Aides Asked Her To Undermine Trump To ‘Save The Country’

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley wrote in her new memoir that two top White House aides tried to get her to undermine President Donald Trump to “save the country,” The Washington Post reported Sunday.

In an interview with the Post, which obtained an advance copy of her book ahead of its Tuesday release, Haley said she was “shocked” when then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told her about their efforts.

“Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country,” Haley reportedly wrote. “It was their decisions, not the president’s, that were in the best interests of America, they said.”

In her book, titled “With All Due Respect,” Haley also says that Tillerson warned her that people would die if Trump was unchecked, according to the Post.

Haley disagreed, and writes that she believed administration officials had an obligation to carry out Trump’s agenda since he was elected. She felt Kelly and Tillerson should quit if they strongly disagreed with the president.

Trump fired Tillerson, the former chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, via tweet in March 2018. Kelly, a retired US Marine Corps general, resigned as Trump’s chief of staff in January.

Tillerson has declined to comment on Haley’s allegations. Kelly told the Post that he’s “guilty as charged” if “working against Trump” means providing the president with the “best and most open, legal and ethical staffing advice from across the [government] so he could make an informed decision.”

The White House did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.