{"id":2371484,"date":"2024-11-20T20:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T01:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-blasts-gabbard-and-rfk-jr-as-cabinet-choices-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T20:11:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T01:11:31","slug":"nikki-haley-blasts-gabbard-and-rfk-jr-as-cabinet-choices-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-blasts-gabbard-and-rfk-jr-as-cabinet-choices-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley blasts Gabbard and RFK Jr. as Cabinet choices &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnikki-haley-blasts-gabbard-and-rfk-jr-as-cabinet-choices-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2371484&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Nikki Haley, former Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">presidential candidate<\/a> and ex-U.N. \u200dAmbassador under Donald \u200cTrump, criticized Trump&#8217;s nominations of Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. \u200dKennedy Jr. to his Cabinet. \u200dDuring her SiriusXM\u2064 program, Haley condemned Gabbard, who Trump nominated as director of national intelligence, labeling her a\u2063 defender of countries like Russia, Syria, Iran, and China, and \u2064highlighting her \u200dpast meeting with Syrian\u2062 President Bashar al-Assad. Haley argued that Gabbard&#8217;s views, which include\u2063 skepticism of Assad&#8217;s use of chemical weapons and\u200d opposition \u2062to NATO&#8217;s\u200b actions \u2062regarding Ukraine, could compromise \u200bU.S. interests. Regarding Kennedy&#8217;s nomination\u2064 for \u2062Health \u2063and \u200dHuman Services secretary, \u2062Haley \u200dexpressed\u2064 her discomfort due to his controversial stances. Haley&#8217;s remarks underscore her concerns regarding the implications of these appointments \u2063for national security and foreign policy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Nikki Haley blasts Gabbard and RFK Jr. as Cabinet choices<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1888419\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former Republican presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nikki-haley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Nikki Haley<\/a> tore into President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s <\/a>decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cabinet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Cabinet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Haley served as Trump&rsquo;s United Nations Ambassador in his first term as president but was a consistent critic of Trump on the campaign trail until she reluctantly endorsed him down the stretch of his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In an appearance on her SiriusXM program,&nbsp;<em>Nikki Haley Live,<\/em> Haley called Gabbard a defender of China, Russia, Syria, and Iran. Gabbard has been nominated to be Trump&rsquo;s director of national intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So now she&rsquo;s defended Russia, she&rsquo;s defended Syria, she&rsquo;s defended Iran, and she&rsquo;s defended China,&rdquo; Haley said. &ldquo;No, she has not denounced any of these views. None of them. She hasn&rsquo;t taken one of them back. DNI, Department of National Intelligence. This is not a place for a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathizer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Haley cited Gabbard&rsquo;s meeting with Bashar al-Assad in 2017 as a moment she particularly disliked.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She said she was skeptical that he was behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-flack-for-gop-russia-stooge-finds-redemption-as-lincoln-project-damage-control-adviser\/\" title=\"Former Flack for GOP Russia Stooge Finds Redemption as Lincoln Project Damage Control Adviser\">chemical weapons attacks<\/a>,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Now, this to me is disgusting because Cheney, you and I were at the United Nations when Assad did those chemical attacks on those children. &hellip; And you can go back and look at a speech I gave holding up pictures of dead children who had been killed by chemical attacks. &hellip; For her to say that Assad was not behind that. Literally, everything she said about that, were Russian talking points.&nbsp;&ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>Haley said Gabbard blamed NATO for Russia&rsquo;s attack on Ukraine and opposed Trump&rsquo;s trade war with China. The former presidential candidate also said Gabbard opposed ending the Iran nuclear deal and sanctions on the country.<\/p>\n<p>As for RFK Jr.&rsquo;s nomination to be Health and Human Services secretary, Haley suggested she was disturbed by his past and present liberal views on abortion and the environment. She also blasted his lack of experience in the health field.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He has not educated, trained, or practiced in health at all. He has spent his entire career as a trial lawyer, an environmental lawyer, and a liberal democrat,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Haley said she would rather him be a health adviser instead, so he could <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">pursue raising awareness<\/a> on additives in food rather than having a larger control over the country&rsquo;s healthcare apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I understand he wants to raise awareness on chemicals and food and vaccinations, but then let him be a health adviser,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Why are we putting someone that&rsquo;s so ideologically opposed to Donald Trump&rsquo;s views and Republican views?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haley said she was not interested in joining Trump&rsquo;s administration after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-kelly-same-people-criticizing-trump-peddled-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Mike Kelly: Same People Criticizing Trump Peddled Russia Collusion Hoax\">president-elect<\/a> said neither she nor Mike Pompeo would join.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I had no interest in being in his Cabinet. He knew that,&rdquo; she said, later adding, &ldquo;I have made it clear to everyone that I was not interested in the administration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1888419\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1888419\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki Haley criticizes Gabbard and RFK Jr. as Cabinet picks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2371485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AP23352687458782.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35244,3927,34440,32458,32076],"class_list":["post-2371484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cabinet-choices","tag-gabbard","tag-nikki-haley","tag-rfk-jr","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AP23352687458782.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371488,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371484\/revisions\/2371488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}