Nikki Haley Watch

Nikki Haley Revs Up: ‘We’re in the Money’

March 5, 2019

Two months after leaving the United Nations, Nikki Haley has assembled a political network that is laying the groundwork for a possible presidential run in 2024, or even in 2020 — should her mentor Donald Trump not run. The best thing about it from her point of view? The scheme will enable her to …

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Off the Merry-Go-Round but Still Reaching for the Brass Ring?

January 16, 2019

by Irwin Arieff

Nikki Haley is wasting no time revealing what her new act will look like now that she has ended her two-year gig toiling on behalf of Donald Trump at the United Nations. Hint: It looks about the same — only more so. Haley appears intent on continuing to build up her image as a …

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Now That She’s Gone: Nikki Haley’s Legacy at the UN

January 9, 2019

by Laura E. Kirkpatrick

After two years as the American ambassador at the United Nations, Nikki Haley left the job in December 2018 as much an enigma as the day she arrived. Haley, a career politician, came to the UN with little foreign policy experience but national recognition for her handling of a domestic terror attack while governor …

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‘Welcome to Turtle Bay’: Nikki Haley’s (Imagined) Letter to Heather Nauert

December 9, 2018

by Irwin Arieff

Dear Heather, I was moved to learn of that sweet letter that George H.W. Bush left for Bill Clinton in an Oval Office desk drawer as he left the White House in January 1993. Poppy wished him “great happiness” in the new job and advised him not to “let the critics discourage you or …

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Ambassador Haley Revises History With a Racist, Anti-Semitic Slant

November 1, 2018

by Irwin Arieff

Nikki Haley has raised a surprise question as she heads for the door: How low can she go? Haley appeared to be trying hard to take the high road when she announced on Oct. 9 that she would be stepping down by the end of the year as the American ambassador to the United …

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Ambassador Haley Goes Out With a Hug

October 10, 2018

by Irwin Arieff

So it’s happened again. Big deal. A top Trump administration official has jumped ship, one of dozens to do so less than two years into the president’s term. But this time was definitely different. When Nikki Haley announced she was stepping down, she did so from the Oval Office in a joint appearance with …

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Nikki Haley Resigns the US Ambassadorship, Surprising the UN Community

October 9, 2018

by Laura E. Kirkpatrick

Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has announced she is resigning her position and leaving at the end of the year. Unlike the string of previous Cabinet members who have left the Trump administration, Haley seems to be departing on good terms with the president. Her departure was first reported …

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By Damning Iran, Ambassador Haley Ignores Israel’s Sins

September 29, 2018

by Irwin Arieff

O.K., let’s be honest here. Iran is a bad actor, just as Donald Trump says. While, to its credit, Iran has put its nuclear weapons program on ice — through an international agreement still supported by just about everyone in the world but Trump — it also regularly threatens Israel and the United States, stokes regional conflicts, …

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Ambassador Haley’s Delusions of Grandeur

September 12, 2018

by Irwin Arieff

There’s a rumor going around that Donald Trump is a master diplomat, a whiz at foreign affairs whose America First policies have taken the world by storm and won widespread admiration for his leadership skills. Check out the recent New York Post column by a Fox News analyst, Ralph Peters, claiming that the president’s foreign policy …

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Michael Haley’s Real Estate Deal With Family Property

August 26, 2018

by Irwin Arieff

Nikki Haley’s husband, Michael, sold a family property in Lexington, S.C., to a local investment firm in January 2018, removing a major liability from the family’s balance sheets while also earning a profit, at least on paper, state and federal documents show. Only five months earlier, the property, a small strip mall on Sunset Boulevard that …

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Can Jane Holl Lute, a New UN Envoy, Work a Miracle on Cyprus?

August 21, 2018

by Dulcie Leimbach

The newest person to venture into kick-starting talks between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots on the long-divided island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean is Jane Holl Lute. She is an American with a military and national-security background who has been assigned the task by the United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres. Since the …

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Nikki Haley, Another Year Older and Deeper in Debt

August 6, 2018

by Irwin Arieff

It can be upsetting to see government officials, as they so often do, report vast new wealth on their annual financial disclosure forms shortly after taking a new government job. What enabled them to take in all that money just after starting a new career? Well, we can relax as far as Nikki Haley, …

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Haley’s Midterm Report Card at the UN

August 2, 2018

by Laura E. Kirkpatrick

The Trump administration has been in office 559 days and counting. Nikki Haley, a former Republican governor of South Carolina and now the American ambassador to the United Nations, has been in office since Jan. 25, 2017. Since her nomination, Haley has undergone two Congressional hearings, the first in January 2017 with the Senate …

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Once Again, Haley Accuses Others for US Failure at Rights Council Reform

July 22, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

In the middle of last week, when the Trump administration was still unable to say how it “lost” more than 2,500 children torn from their asylum-seeking parents at the border with Mexico, Nikki Haley, the United States envoy to the United Nations, was telling a different story to a sympathetic group in Washington, D.C. …

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No Winners in Washington’s Human-Rights Blame Game

July 3, 2018

by Irwin Arieff

It’s a poor workman who blames his tools, a popular French proverb cautions. But that’s just what Ambassador Nikki Haley has been doing in trying to justify Washington’s exit from the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council. Haley has looked long and hard in her scramble to identify the villains responsible for Washington’s exit. …