![]() ![]() 'This will just leave you and me,' Pompeo said, worried Kelly would leave. Pompeo told him that then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis 'is always overseas' and the 'only thing' Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinks about is 'covering his a**.' He claims Pompeo said to him they had to stay on because they were the 'real warriors.' The words came when Kelly was frustrated and considering leaving the administration. He claims then-chief of staff John Kelly and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also had their frustrations with the couple. The New York Times called it a 'withering portrait of a president ignorant of even basic facts about the world, susceptible to transparent flattery by authoritarian leaders manipulating him and prone to false statements, foul-mouthed eruptions and snap decisions that aides try to manage or reverse' in its review.Īnd the Washington Post calls it 'the most substantive, critical dissection of the president from an administration insider so far.'īolton reveals his frustrations with the president's daughter and son-in-law in the book.Īnd it wasn't just him. He also said of Haley's departure from the administration: 'Few doubted the 2024 race for the Republican presidential nomination had now begun.īolton's book is the first memoir from a high-ranking official in the Trump administration and is from an official with longtime conservative credentials who served as a commentator on Fox News. The cons were he could lose the party's evangelical base who supposed Pence.īolton writes he told Trump 'it was a bad idea to jettison someone loyal, and that doing so risked alienating people he needed (who could stay home, even if they didn't vote for Trump's opponent) without necessarily generating new support because of the replacement.' The pros were seen as Haley would bring women to Trump's side. 'White House gossip was common that Ivanka and Kushner favored this approach, which tied in with Haley's leaving her position as UN Ambassador in December 2018, thus allowing her to do some politicking around the country before being named to the ticket in 2020.' 'Trump also raised the widespread political rumor he would dump Pence from the ticket in 2020 and run instead with Haley, asking what I thought,' Bolton wrote. He reveals Trump asked him about the idea around the holidays in 2018 - as Haley was wrapping up her tenure in New York at UN headquarters. 'They do a lot of things behind the scenes that I wish more people knew about because we are a better country because they're in the administration,' Haley said.īut there could be more to the optics than Haley thanking her friends.īolton reveals in his book that Ivanka and Kushner wanted to jettison Vice President Mike Pence from the 2020 ticket and replace him with Haley. She said the couple do more behind the scenes in the Trump administration than people realize although she did not offer specific examples. 'Ivanka has just been a great friend,' Haley added. ![]() 'Jared is such a hidden genius that no one understands,' Haley gushed, citing his work on the renegotiating NAFTA and on various trade deals. 'I can't say enough good things about Jared and Ivanka,' Haley said at the time of the couple, who were considered her biggest allies in the White House. Haley announced - to much surprise and fanfare - in October 2018 she would leave her plum post at the end of the year, a pronouncement made in pomp in circumstance in an Oval Office meeting.Īt that time, Haley lavished praise on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the president's daughter and son-in-law, who serves as advisers in the West Wing and are a power center in the Trump administration. She outlasted Tillerson however, whom Trump fired in March 2018. She was quickly and easily confirmed by the Senate, 96-4, but left the job on December 31, 2018. Trump named her as his pick to represent the United States to the UN shortly after he won the 2016 election. Haley, who is Indian-American, became a rising star in the Republican Party when she was elected governor of South Carolina in 2010. Bolton's lawyer says it does not and noted it went through the government review process required by someone who served in Bolton's position. The Justice Department sued him to stop its publication, claiming it has classified information. His book is the subject of an on-going legal battle. The Justice Department is suing John Bolton to stop publication of his memoir ![]()
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