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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 10 OctOber 2018
NIKKI HALEY for higher office, and the tration's efforts to combat
Continued from Front risk to those ambitions what it alleged to be anti-
But Haley, the former South might only increase after American and anti-Israel
Carolina governor, has of- the elections if Democrats actions by the international
ten been an unpredictable make significant gains in body, including the U.S. de-
and independent force in Congress. cision to leave the Human
the Trump administration. Trump said Haley first dis- Rights Council and to stop
At times she has offered cussed leaving with him six funding the U.N. agency for
strikingly different perspec- months ago. The senior of- Palestinian Refugees.
tives on world events from ficial noted that their con- Haley also secured three
her more isolationist-mind- versation coincided with successively tougher Secu-
ed boss. the appointments of Mike rity Council sanction reso-
A smiling Haley announced Pompeo as secretary of lutions against North Korea
her decision at an Oval state and John Bolton as — which the administration
Office meeting alongside national security adviser has credited with bringing
the president, bringing up in an earlier upending of Kim Jong Un to the negoti- didates for Haley's job and senior adviser and eldest
her own political prospects top foreign policy officials. ating table — and an arms that a successor would daughter praised Haley,
even as she underscored Haley had expressed some embargo against South be named in two to three saying Trump will "nominate
her continued support for frustration that her voice Sudan. But under Haley's weeks — or maybe sooner. a formidable replacement
Trump. Without prompting had been diminished as tenure at the U.N., the U.S. Among those under con- for Ambassador."
from reporters, she said she the two men became the has faced strong opposi- sideration, Trump said, is She added: "That replace-
had no plans to run for pres- aggressive new faces of tion from Russia when it former deputy national se- ment will not be me."
ident "in 2020" and would Trump's international poli- comes to addressing the curity adviser Dina Powell. U.S. Ambassador to Ger-
campaign for Trump. cy, the official said. seven-year-old war in Syria, Trump told reporters that many Richard Grenell's
Haley, who is 46 and not More recently, there was and frustration from Euro- he has heard his daugh- name has also been float-
personally wealthy, hinted the awkward moment at pean allies over reimposing ter Ivanka Trump's name ed for the post, but Trump
in her resignation letter to the U.N., when Trump's nuclear sanctions against discussed for the post, but suggested he'd rather
Trump that she is headed boasting of American eco- Iran. Trump told reporters said if he selected her he'd keep him in his current post
to the private sector. nomic strength under his aboard Air Force One he be accused of nepotism. "because he's doing such a
"I have given everything leadership brought laugh- was considering five can- In a tweet, the presidential good job."q
I've got these last eight ter at a General Assembly
years," she said, referring to session. He insisted later
her six years as governor as that the delegates were
well as her time at the U.N. laughing with him, not at
"And I do think it's good to him.
rotate in other people who The six-month timeline also
can put that same energy coincides with a high-pro-
and power into it." file spat between Haley
Trump was asked why the and the White House in
announcement was made April, when she drew the
now since Haley is staying president's ire for preview-
until the end of the year. ing in a television appear-
Instead of answering di- ance the administration's
rectly, he recounted how planned imposition of a
she has had to work on new round of sanctions on
tough issues, such as Iran Russia. When the sanctions
and North Korea. never materialized, White
White House officials had House officials said the
sought to put a hold on plans had changed with-
Trump's record-setting turn- out Haley being briefed,
over in the run-up to the and economic adviser Lar-
Nov. 6 elections, with aides ry Kudlow suggested she
being asked months ago was confused.
to step down or commit to "I don't get confused," Hal-
stay through Election Day ey said in a sharply worded
to avoid adding to a sense response to the West Wing.
of turmoil. Haley was appointed to
Still, the prospect of post- the U.N. post in November
midterm changes contin- 2016 and last month co-
ues to hang over the West ordinated Trump's second
Wing, and Haley's exit was trip to the United Nations,
one that has been dis- including his first time chair-
cussed, according to a se- ing the Security Council.
nior administration official A rookie to international
not authorized to publicly politics, the former South
discuss private conversa- Carolina governor was an
tions. unusual pick for to be U.N.
A number of officials spec- envoy. "It was a blessing to
ulated that the timing was go into the U.N. every day
meant to preserve the am- with body armor," Haley
bassador's own political said, saying her job was
future. A post in the Trump to defend America on the
administration has proven world stage.
to be a rickety stepping- At the U.N., she helped
stone to either lucrative pri- spearhead the adminis-
vate sector work or hopes