Nikki Haley reveals Tillerson, Kelly privately
discussed resisting Trump: ‘It was offensive’
Fox News,
by
Ronn Blitzer
Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk,
11/10/2019 2:53:37 PM
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley blasted former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, recalling a private conversation where they defended resisting President Trump, telling her they did so out of necessity.
(Snip) Haley said that the two men “confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren't being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country” and how “Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president's decisions was because, if he didn't, people would die…."
Haley, however, was not impressed.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 11/10/2019 2:58:46 PM (No. 231652)
Back stabbing traitors. I had a sense early on those two were putting off negative vibrations and were not to be trusted.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 11/10/2019 3:02:03 PM (No. 231654)
Talk about palace intrigue! Thank you, Nikki. As I would expect, she has her head screwed on straight!
36 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 11/10/2019 3:07:20 PM (No. 231664)
Thank you Nikki. I never trusted Kelly, and despised Tillerson from day one. Tillerson destroyed the Boy Scouts with his homosexual policy, and then went on to stab our President in the back.
As did Kelly, I am sure.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 11/10/2019 3:19:56 PM (No. 231668)
I thought Tillerson was the cat's pajamas but he turned out to be just what he is... a phony pos. My mistake.
37 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 11/10/2019 3:20:08 PM (No. 231669)
Mattis wasn't anyone's idea of a prize, either.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 11/10/2019 3:20:08 PM (No. 231670)
I suspect Tillerson was one of the cabinet officials willing to use the 25th amendment, along with Rosenstein and McCabe, to get rid of Trump. Tillerson is a fool, a very stupid man. As for Kelly, he pretends he doesn't know what Nikki is talking about, and answers a question she didn't raise, instead of the one she did raise. Kelly has also been exposed as a fool that thought his job was to run the presidency rather than the elected president. I was very happy to see Tillerson and Kelly fired. Fired for insubordination and for worthless advice from a pair of fools. I am so thankful Trump does not listen to any of these characters.
37 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 11/10/2019 3:23:32 PM (No. 231673)
The Deep State is really deep! WOW! It's like I'm living in the Soviet Union...
50 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 11/10/2019 3:37:54 PM (No. 231680)
The real question here is did you go tell the President? If not, why not?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/10/2019 3:38:48 PM (No. 231681)
Now we know why these two had to leave. Perhaps Mattis too. The second Trump administration will get off to a more proper start.
26 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 11/10/2019 3:49:04 PM (No. 231685)
Tillerson and the Deep State Department.
14 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Crusty_Rusty 11/10/2019 3:56:28 PM (No. 231691)
Oh my GOD!
The reputations of these two will be sullied for ever more......
To say nothing about their "OTHERS".
These two, and their OTHERS, know not what they mess with.......
15 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
droopydog 11/10/2019 4:16:02 PM (No. 231703)
I think this is going to be an exciting week...stuff hitting the fan all over the place.
19 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
judy 11/10/2019 4:23:13 PM (No. 231707)
Pompeo makes Tillerson look like kindergarten. Kelly loves Kelly. The Trump WH appears to be running more smoothly since they left & took Maddog with them.
27 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
watashiyo 11/10/2019 4:42:29 PM (No. 231708)
I'm buying every book on post-President Trump and the deep state traitors in the WH.
9 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/10/2019 4:56:52 PM (No. 231713)
This comes as absolutely no surprise.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/10/2019 4:57:54 PM (No. 231714)
Don’t forget McMaster.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
starboard 11/10/2019 5:27:58 PM (No. 231724)
My feeling is that initially President Trump was enamored with the position of CIC and tried very hard to incorporate many from the military to his cabinet. He figured he could trust them..Right? Well he learned the hard way. Tillerson, even though he came from the corporate world was way in over his head. Also, the whole atmosphere in the White was hostile with the Obama holdovers and leakers lurking at every turn. Then there was Comey and Company... it never ended. To think He survived this environment along with the phony collusion hoax and now impeachment. Isn't it remarkable that he's gaining strength everyday from the people to get reelected in 2020.
As for the enemies within, I don't wish any one of them anything good. They should all go to prison.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/10/2019 5:35:28 PM (No. 231726)
Re #17, I read some time ago that Condi Rice recommended McMasters and Mattis and others to PDJT for his cabinet...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/10/2019 5:54:47 PM (No. 231735)
Never hire a former CEO to work within the Executive Branch. Only notable exceptions were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, but both had worked in government long before they became CEOs of corporations. Both know the rules & ropes quite well. Tillerson has the CEO-ego, and Kelly/Mattis despise the "civilian" Trump.
9 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 11/10/2019 6:29:21 PM (No. 231757)
#18 - I was never that enamored with Condi Rice. Nice enough person, but she always struck me as a go-along Bushie.
16 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Safari Man 11/10/2019 7:30:58 PM (No. 231793)
No wonder my XOM stock has gone nowhere for 10 years.
3 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
lakerman1 11/10/2019 8:57:30 PM (No. 231827)
This is a complicated subject.
Those of us who have held responsible positions in or out of government understand that the executive each of us serves deserves good, honest advice. And if he is doing something that we see as stupid or uncalled for, each of us owes the executive some candid pushback.
If he still won't listen, each of us should resign and stay closed mouthed.
Thoughtful, competent people can disagree. What is important is how we register the disagreement.
12 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 11/10/2019 10:51:04 PM (No. 231868)
I think I remember reading an article after he ..left...that he was useful in dealing with SA..at the time...the sword dance..
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
rochow 11/11/2019 12:00:41 AM (No. 231880)
None of these jokers were elected but of course as globalists or leftist they felt that they knew everything better than the President. Thank you Mr. President that you dumped these traitors!!
6 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 11/11/2019 3:11:06 AM (No. 231918)
I agree with #23. In trying to understand why Tillerson might have been brought it, it was clear that President Trump was going to dramatically change our relationship with Saudi Arabia, and needed someone to help get the messages through, or at least get a good intro to the right prince. As it turns out, there was somewhat of a coup in SA after Trump talked to them, and the new prince cleaned out, with bullets in some cases, a bunch of rotten wood in the family tree. And SA is much more interested in being anti-Persia than anti-Israel these days. So may be Tillerson had some value, for a while.
Once he had done that deal, he was gone. And Pompeo is ten times the Sec of State that Tillerson could ever imagine being. Maybe worth having the viper in place for a bit, if it helped get SA back on track, apparently less virulently Muslim and terrorist supporting than they used to be.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Trigger2 11/11/2019 3:37:04 AM (No. 231922)
Now we know the real reason Boy Scout pervert Tillerson and Kelly were dismissed. Both traitors.
2 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
StormCnter 11/11/2019 6:36:05 AM (No. 231950)
Rex Tillerson was just a bad fit for that position in the administration. Men who have been CEOs sometimes have a problem ceding decision authority. General Kelly was unable to shape up the access to the President into an organized and effective schedule, although he made progress. The Trump children refused to cooperate. I am disappointed that Nikki Haley seems to have lost her sense of discretion. Not everything needs to be made public.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
grampus 11/11/2019 9:29:07 AM (No. 232060)
#22 and 27 are pretty much on target.I had the "pleasure" of working for a rather high level presidential appointee some years ago. Once he returned to our multi-acre location following a trip to the West Coast. .He called a meeting. First order of business: "All of the grass looks like hell. Why didn't someone have it cut while I was gone?" An excellent adviser (Not I.) simply stated, "We've had constant rain. Not good for the grass, the equipment, or the workers to cut grass in the rain." Of course, there were other possible responses, but none that would have been better.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
judy 11/11/2019 4:01:00 PM (No. 232391)
Maybe that's why Trump fired Tillerson on Twitter & called hm dumb as a rock & lazy.
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Wonder why Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly are "former" advisors to President Trump? It seems like these two thought that they not only knew more than the President, but that it may have been their right to subvert him. Good riddance.