Current Events > Nikki Haley has stepped down as UN Umbassador

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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

I can't imagine a more thankless job than Ambassador to the U.N. during a Trump term.

On the contrary, Haley has gotten fawning coverage as the one member of the administration who isn't just openly corrupt
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Doom_Art posted...

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/Psythor/status/1049671425349570560
hm

Isn't that

Uh

Not allowed

It doesn't matter. This administration faces no consequences for anything
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It's actually kind of terrifying that the GOP is seemingly grooming both Haley and Ivanka as future Presidential candidates, especially because they wouldn't have to run them at the same time.
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Bio1590 posted...

It's actually kind of terrifying that the GOP is seemingly grooming both Haley and Ivanka as future Presidential candidates, especially because they wouldn't have to run them at the same time.

Tbh the parties groom candidates all the time. Anytime a younger/charismatic up-and-comer comes along

So the GOP grooming Haley isn't odd. The odd one is the President's daughter
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Antifar posted...

On the contrary, Haley has gotten fawning coverage as the one member of the administration who isn't just openly corrupt

Although she was getting stuff about her trips
http://www.businessinsider.com/nikki-haley-resign-investigation-flights-free-private-jets-2018-10
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It's more like, she's not ACTUALLY moderate she's just less crazy than Trump. That's why it's terrifying.

You gotta wonder how they'd run her though. Like she checks some boxes like:
-Woman ("See we're not sexist!")
-Minority ("See we're not racist!")

But you also gotta think that part of her advantage to the base is that she looks and acts pretty white >_>
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https://www.postandcourier.com/news/nikki-haley-has-up-to-million-in-debt-as-she/article_0d2b82ec-cbd9-11e8-ba5e-ef6dfe973fd3.html

Nikki Haley's political capital and foreign policy credentials skyrocketed during her time as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, but one aspect of the former South Carolina governor's life didn't get the same boost: her personal finances.

Federal ethics reports show Haley had debt from $525,000 to about $1.1 million in 2017.

She owed $25,000 to $65,000 on two credit cards since 2016. She listed a mortgage and a line of credit each for $250,000 to $500,000. She listed ranges of debt and income on the disclosure records.

She claimed to have $1,000 to $15,000 in the bank and earned roughly $10,000 last year with a month's salary as governor before she was confirmed as ambassador. She also listed that she made no money last year from her 2012 memoir "Can't is Not an Option."

Her earnings did not include her salary at the U.N., which is about $180,000 a year.

Michael Haley earned $50,000 to $100,000 last year from a Lexington shopping center he bought from the ambassador's parents and had $15,000 to $50,000 in a bank account, according to Nikki Haley's disclosure form. Michael Haley works for the S.C. National Guard.

Haley's planned resignation from the U.N. was a surprise to many, creating a frenzy of speculation about why she would leave the influential cabinet position. Former S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford, now a congressman, told MSNBC that her departure at the end of the year did not pass his smell test.

Haley suggested she is about to cash in on her six years in the South Carolina governor's office and two years as United Nations ambassador.

In her resignation letter to President Donald Trump, she wrote: "As a businessman, I expect you will appreciate my sense that returning from government to the private sector is not a step down but a step up."

Haley's finances have received attention in the past, notably how they see-sawed before she became governor 2010.

Her family earnings swayed from $65,700 in 2004 to $40,300 in 2006 to $196,300 in 2009 when she got a job with Lexington Medical Center, according to tax returns shared with reporters.

The Haleys' earnings peaked at $284,556 in 2013 with Nikki Haley's salary as governor, proceeds from real estate investments and the first payment for her memoir but fell after that.

Last year, the Haleys managed to reduce some of their debt by selling the shopping center that once housed Nikki Haley parents' clothing store, Exotica International.

A firm run by Michael Haley, IKOR Systems, bought a Lexington strip shopping center from Nikki Haley's parents for $5 in July 2017, property records show. IKOR also assumed nearly $1.1 million owed on the center.

IKOR sold the center for $1.2 million this past January to a firm run by Columbia-area property manager Rick Tangri, according to Lexington County and state records. A representative of Tangri's company said he does not have ties to the Haleys.

Based on sales records, Michael Haley's firm made a little more than $160,000 from the sale after settling debts on the center.

But some of Haley's relatives also are having financial issues.

The home of Haley's parents, Ajit and Raj Randhawa, is going through foreclosure, according to court records.

A hearing with the Lexington master-in-equity for the 5,487-square-foot lakefront home valued at $1.1 million is scheduled for Oct. 30.

The Randhawas owe $740,708, according to court documents.

Hrmmmmmmmmmm
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FrisbeeDude posted...

Rats leaving the sinking ship.

I like that. I am going to use that
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Antifar posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

I can't imagine a more thankless job than Ambassador to the U.N. during a Trump term.

On the contrary, Haley has gotten fawning coverage as the one member of the administration who isn't just openly corrupt

This didn't age well!
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Antifar posted...

Antifar posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

I can't imagine a more thankless job than Ambassador to the U.N. during a Trump term.

On the contrary, Haley has gotten fawning coverage as the one member of the administration who isn't just openly corrupt

This didn't age well!

Lmao
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Someone pointed out elsewhere that the plan may be to dump Pence off the ticket for 2020 and replace him with Haley. The logic being that it would help the issues the GOP is having with women and minorities

I don't see this as being particularly likely but who knows?
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Doom_Art posted...

Someone pointed out elsewhere that the plan may be to dump Pence off the ticket for 2020 and replace him with Haley. The logic being that it would help the issues the GOP is having with women and minorities

I don't see this as being particularly likely but who knows?

I just honestly don't see Haley's addition as actually changing the narrative about women and minorities when Trump is president, because it'd be so transparent and wouldn't undo the things he has done.

However, I can imagine the white male conservative journalists would give him lots of props for it.
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Has there been any more speculation on what prompted this or whats next?
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King_Hellebuyck posted...

Has there been any more speculation on what prompted this or whats next?

Idk but Trump's already said Ivanka's perfect for the position.
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Sativa_Rose posted...

Holy shit. I did not see this coming. She seemed to be doing pretty well at her job, actually.

Youd get tired trying to defend fat Donnies nazi agenda too.
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