What Nikki Haley Has To Say To the ‘Anonymous’ Op-Ed Writer
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Nikki Haley, like the author of an anonymous anti-Trump op-ed, is a senior official in the Trump administration. But in an op-ed of her own in the Washington Post, the ambassador to the UN calls out her colleague as a coward and offers a suggestion in dealing with the president:
“When there is disagreement, there is a right way and a wrong way to address it. I pick up the phone and call him or meet with him in person. Trump does not ‘shut out’ his advisers, and he does not demand that everyone agree with him.”
He actually listens to her complaints, says the ambassador, and sometimes he responds the way she’d like and sometimes he doesn’t. “That’s the way the system should work.”
To remain in the administration and deliberately try to undermine Trump’s initiatives in secret is a dangerous affront to the democratic system, writes Haley. If the op-ed writer can’t sway the president on particular issues and finds that to be a deal-breaker, he or she should resign instead.
“As a former governor, I find it absolutely chilling to imagine that a high-ranking member of my team would secretly try to thwart my agenda. That is not the American way. It is fundamentally disloyal, not just to the chief executive, but to our country and our values.”
Read her full op-ed.
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In 1983, there was an incident in the Soviet Union where their radar incorrectly reported an incoming US missile at a time when tensions were already high. I think some rules or protocols were broken and retaliation delayed – an action that may have saved the world. Nothing like that has happened here, but of late the idea of a cornered and paranoid madman might order something unspeakable. Would it then be cowardice for someone to obfuscate, delay, stall or hinder an order to bomb Toronto or Berlin or even Manhattan?
In many or most cases, to resign and report might be proper, yet we have a president who might simply replace the “traitor” with a madman or monster or foreign agent.
Haley is generalizing in order to frame her opinion and she’s a Trump supporter. Why would I fail to consider the source of this opinion?
Haley, I think, is one of the more sane members of the Trump gang, and I wonder what she really thinks about her deranged boss.