Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley strongly opposed President-elect Donald Trump’s resolution to nominate former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his Cupboard.
On her SiriusXM present, Nikki Haley Reside, Haley criticized Gabbard’s overseas coverage positions, notably her controversial remarks concerning Russia’s warfare on Ukraine and her help for pardoning Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked labeled U.S. intelligence.
“After Russia invaded Ukraine, Tulsi Gabbard actually blamed NATO, our Western alliance that’s answerable for countering Russia,” Haley acknowledged.
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“She blamed NATO for the assault on Ukraine, and the Russians and the Chinese language echoed her speaking factors and her interviews on Russian and Chinese language tv.”
Haley accused Gabbard of persistently aligning with adversarial regimes and her perceived defence of Russia, Syria, Iran, and China. She warned, “So now she’s defended Russia, she’s defended Syria, she’s defended Iran, and she or he’s defended China. No, she has not denounced any of those views. None of them. She hasn’t taken one among them again.”
“This isn’t a spot for a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese language sympathizer.”
Haley urges Senate to scrutinize RFK Jr.’s nomination
The previous UN Ambassador additionally raised alarms over RFK Jr.’s nomination to steer the Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS). “He’s a liberal Democrat, environmental lawyer, trial lawyer who will now be overseeing 25 % of our federal finances and has no background in well being care,” Haley famous.
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“A few of you could assume RFK is cool, a few of you could like that he questions what’s in our meals and what’s in our vaccines, however we don’t know, when he’s given reins to an company, what choices he’s going to make behind the scenes.”
Haley instructed Kennedy could be higher suited to an advisory position and urged the Senate to “ask the arduous inquiries to him earlier than we go and approve him.”
