Nikki Haley reveals top aides 'resisted' Trump to 'save the country'

Nikki Haley, the former United States ambassador to the United Nations, has revealed that two senior aides of President Donald Trump had 'resisted' him and also urged Haley to join them in President's opposition. In her memoir, 'With All Due Respect' said the-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and then-WhiteHouse chief of staff, John Kelly told Haley that they were trying to 'save the country'. The former US ambassador to the UN also confessed that she was 'shocked' by the request made by the officials in a closed-door meeting. 

“Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country,” Haley wrote. “It was their decisions, not the president’s, that were in the best interests of America, they said. The president didn’t know what he was doing. ... Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president’s decisions was that, if he didn’t, people would die”.

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Guilty as charged: Kelly 

Even though Tillerson reportedly did not respond to the comments made by Haley, Kelly briefly said that if by providing President Trump with the best and most open, legal as well as ethical staffing advice from across the government in order to help the US leader to make informed decision is similar to working against Donald Trump, then he is 'guilty as charged'. Both the officials were also later fired by President Trump. Nikki Haley also writes in her memoir that the meeting with them lasted for more than an hour, however, the same issue never mentioned to her again. The former South Carolina governor also wrote that in her opinion Kelly and Tillerson should have raised their concerns in front of President Trump, instead of her and called it 'offensive'.

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Haley wrote, “Instead of saying that to me, they should’ve been saying that to the president, not asking me to join them on their sidebar plan. It should’ve been, ‘Go tell the president what your differences are, and quit if you don’t like what he’s doing.’ But to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing. And it goes against the Constitution, and it goes against what the American people want. And it was offensive.” 

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(With AP inputs)