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 Cabinet.
On her SiriusXM present, Nikki Haley Live, Haley criticized Gabbard’s overseas coverage positions, notably her controversial remarks concerning Russia’s conflict on Ukraine and her assist for pardoning Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked categorized U.S. intelligence.
“After Russia invaded Ukraine, Tulsi Gabbard actually blamed NATO, our Western alliance that’s chargeable for countering Russia,” Haley acknowledged.
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“She blamed NATO for the assault on Ukraine, and the Russians and the Chinese echoed her speaking factors and her interviews on Russian and Chinese 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 he or she’s defended China. No, she has not denounced any of those views. None of them. She hasn’t taken one in every of them again.”
“This isn’t a spot for a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathizer.”
Haley urges Senate to scrutinize RFK Jr.’s nomination
The former UN Ambassador additionally raised alarms over RFK Jr.’s nomination to steer the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “He’s a liberal Democrat, environmental lawyer, trial lawyer who will now be overseeing 25 p.c of our federal funds and has no background in well being care,” Haley famous.
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“Some of it’s possible you’ll suppose RFK is cool, a few of it’s possible you’ll 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 steered Kennedy can be higher fitted to an advisory position and urged the Senate to “ask the laborious inquiries to him earlier than we go and approve him.”