‘Neocon Nikki’ Is Not to Be Trusted
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley may run for president in 2024. But her record should make all patriots shun her. She is an unrepentant neoconservative who loves war, mass immigration, the military-industrial complex, and political correctness. Here’s why she is a Swamp Monster.
Notable Jobs
● U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump from 2017-2018
● Governor of South Carolina from 2011-2017
Notable Swamp Activities
● Haley is a member of the military-industrial complex. After leaving the Trump White House, she took a job on the board of directors at Boeing, the largest defense company in the world. [Nikki Haley joins Boeing board, by Rachel Frazin, The Hill, May 1, 2019]
● Haley charges $200,000 and demands a private airplane for her speaking engagements. [Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is charging a whopping $200,000 per speaking gig, by Kayla Tausche, CNBC, January 30, 2019]
● Haley’s husband, Michael Haley, was awarded shares from a company profiting off a North Carolina tribal casino. The company was trying to win political help to secure federal approval for its casino project. [Slice of Profits From North Carolina Casino Goes to Relatives of Politicians, by Mark Maremont, Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2022]
● Haley’s nonprofit, Stand for America, received several donations from some of the GOP’s swampiest donors. The list includes figures such as Paul Singer and the Adelson family. The nonprofit is accused of acting as a dark money front for a future presidential campaign. [Document reveals identity of donors who secretly funded Nikki Haley’s political nonprofit, by Alex Isenstadt, POLITICO, August 26, 2022]
Immigration And Political Correctness
● Haley originally supported the United Nations’ Global Migration Pact against President Trump’s objections. [Trump Ignores Nikki Haley, Pulls U.S. Out of Global Immigration Pact, by Carlos Ballesteros, Newsweek, December 3, 2017].
● Haley denounced Trump’s proposed “Muslim ban” as “absolutely un-American,” “unconstitutional,” and an “embarrassment.” ”It defies everything that this country was based on and it’s just wrong,” the then-South Carolina governor said in December of 2015. [Nikki Haley denounces Trump’s Muslim ban idea, by Jesse Byrnes, The Hill, December 9, 2015]
● She condemned criticism of mass immigration in her 2016 State of the Union rebuttal. “During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation. No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country.” [Gov. Nikki Haley’s Republican response to 2016 State of the Union, PBS, January 12, 2016]
● She claimed in 2016 that “the fabric of America is based on legal immigrants.” [Nikki Haley defends against Republican ire over State of the Union response, by Sabrina Siddiqui, The Guardian, January 13, 2016]
● She demanded that the GOP cater to the interests of immigrants and “people of color” following Trump’s 2016 election victory. [Nikki Haley: GOP can’t forget immigrants, people of color, by Katie Zezima, Washington Post, November 18, 2016]
● Haley, along with South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, formed an initiative in 2021 to push for the Republican Party to “diversify” itself. [Haley, Scott in forefront of new GOP campaign for diversity within Republican Party, Associated Press, October 7, 2021]
● As governor, she proudly tore down the Confederate flag in front of the South Carolina Capitol. [South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Signs Bill Removing Confederate Flag, by Jon Schuppe, NBC News, July 9, 2015]
● She sympathized with the Black Lives Matter rioters who destroyed American cities in the wake of George Floyd’s death. She said we need to “listen to the protesters” and the police must “keep the protesters safe.” She also urged America to unite “in the name of George Floyd.” [https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1267517505490300928 ; https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1267517952066281472 ; https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1267518984775241729 ]
Anti-Trump
● Haley was anti-Trump as early as the summer of 2015. She delivered a diatribe against the then-presidential candidate to a Washington D.C. audience on September 2, 2015. She said Trump’s attacks on political rivals and the media were not “who we are as Republicans. That’s not what we do.” She also lambasted Trump’s immigration policy and said his temperament could set off a world war. [Nikki Haley takes on Donald Trump, by Dana Milbank, Washington Post, September 2, 2015]
● She continued these attacks by denouncing Trump’s Muslim ban in December of 2015. [Nikki Haley denounces Trump’s Muslim ban idea, by Jesse Byrnes, The Hill, December 9, 2015]
● Her 2016 State of the Union rebuttal primarily attacked Trump, instead of then-President Barack Obama. She particularly focused on his immigration rhetoric and policies. She confirmed to reporters that her speech was intentionally aimed at the then-Republican frontrunner. [Nikki Haley to Donald Trump: Turn down the volume, by Gregory Krieg, CNN, January 13, 2016]
● She endorsed and campaigned for Marco Rubio in the 2016 primary. She took the opportunity to skewer Trump on the campaign trail. [Haley endorses, campaigns for Marco Rubio, by Tim Smith, Greenville News, February 17, 2016]
● She still opposed Trump even after he secured the party’s nomination. In June of 2016, she compared Trump to Charleston mass shooter Dylann Roof. “I will not stop until we fight a man that chooses not to disavow the KKK,” Haley said of Trump. “That is not a part of our party, that is not who we want as president. We will not allow that in our country.” [Nikki Haley links Trump’s rhetoric to Charleston church shooting, by Jesse Byrnes, The Hill, June 3, 2016]
● Haley only said she would vote for Trump a few days before the 2016 election. She emphasized at the time that she was still “not a fan” of the future president. She also said Trump’s campaign was “embarrassing” and “turned my stomach upside down.” [Nikki Haley ‘not a fan’ of Trump – but still going to vote for him, by Tom Kludt, CNN, October 27, 2016]
● Haley muted her criticism of Trump while she served as his ambassador to the U.N. But she began publicly distancing herself from the president as soon as she left office.
● She attacked Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria in 2019, saying it left American “allies” to die. [Nikki Haley says Trump’s Syria decision means leaving US allies ‘to die’, by Devan Cole, CNN, October 7, 2019]
● Haley wrote in a 2019 book that she was “deeply disturbed” by Trump’s Charlottesville comments that blamed both Antifa and the alt-right for the violence. [Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley was 'deeply disturbed' by Trump's Charlottesville remarks, by Lauren Frias, Business Insider, November 11, 2019]
● Haley condemned Trump after January 6 and strongly implied he should be banished from politics. "He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again,” she told POLITICO in February of 2021. She also said she was “disgusted” by Trump’s criticism of Mike Pence and predicted the 45th president would not be in the GOP picture. [Nikki Haley’s Time For Choosing, by Tim Alberta, POLITICO, February 12, 2021]
Neocon Foreign Policy/Trade
● Haley has consistently supported military intervention in Syria for the explicit purpose of regime change. In 2017, she claimed–contrary to Trump administration policy–that the White House sought the end of the Bashar al-Assad regime and rejected any suggestion of working with the Syrian president on peace. [Nikki Haley: Regime change and the end of Assad is Trump's next priority for Syria, by Timothy Gardner, Reuters, April 9, 2017]
● She constantly supported military attacks against the Assad regime, even if the interventions were opposed by the UN. [Nikki Haley Threatens to Circumvent the UN Regarding Syria Intervention, by Davis Richardson, Observer, March 12, 2018]
● Haley insisted Russia is “covered in the blood of Syrian children” for its support of Assad. [Nikki Haley says Russia's hands are 'covered in the blood of Syrian children' after alleged chemical attack, by Ben Brimelow, Business Insider, April 10, 2018]
● She opposed withdrawing troops from Syria. [Nikki Haley says Trump’s Syria decision means leaving US allies ‘to die’, by Devan Cole, CNN, October 7, 2019]
● She opposed withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. [Nikki Haley blasts Afghanistan withdrawal, by Joseph Clark. Washington Times, October 5, 2021]
● She threatened North Korea with total destruction in 2017. [US: N Korea to be ‘destroyed’ if behaviour continues, Al Jazeera, September 18, 2017]
● She believed the Russia hoax about the 2016 election and declared the foreign state’s alleged election meddling amounted to “warfare.” [Nikki Haley: Russian cyberinterference into US elections is ‘warfare’, by Maegan Vazquez, CNN, October 19, 2017]
● Haley encouraged Trump to take a more hawkish line against Iran and was instrumental in killing the Iran Nuclear Deal. [Nikki Haley was Trump’s Iran whisperer, by Eliana Johnson, Politico, October 13, 2017]
● In 2017, she provided dubious evidence of Iranian-supplied weapons to Yemeni rebels in an attempt to claim Iran committed an act of war against Saudi Arabia. The evidence was seen as insufficient by the UN. Haley’s purpose was to increase conflict in the Middle East. [U.S. Accuses Iran of U.N. Violation, but Evidence Falls Short, by John Ismay and Helene Cooper, New York Times, December 14, 2017]
● She supported strikes on Iranian leaders in 2020 and claimed anyone who would criticize these actions support the mullahs. [Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, and Lindsey Graham Try to War-Demagogue Like It's 2004, by Matt Welch, Reason, January 9, 2020]
● She calls Russian President Vladimir Putin an “evil dictator,” a “thug,” a “tyrant.” and a “killer.” [https://twitter.com/nikkihaley/status/1496529736096534537?lang=en ]
● She also insists Putin is trying to recreate the Soviet Union. [https://twitter.com/nikkihaley/status/1496529736096534537?l ]
● She supports giving Ukraine whatever it wants, from fighter jets to limitless amounts of cash. [https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1508478668867358725 ]
● As ambassador to the UN, she tried to impose sanctions on Russia against the wishes of the Trump administration. Haley rebuked Trump adviser Larry Kudlow for saying she was mistaken to try this act. [Haley fires back at White House: ‘I don’t get confused’, by Jordan Fabian and Brett Samuels, The Hill, April 17, 2018]
● Haley believes America must be prepared to go to war against China over Taiwan. She also supports giving Taiwan whatever it wants. [Nikki Haley: China is going to invade Taiwan, Unherd, June 22, 2022]
● She opposes trade protectionism. As South Carolina governor, she asked the Obama administration to lower its tariff on Chinese tires. She said in her 2019 book that she opposed Trump’s tariffs. [Gov. Haley Concerned About Chinese Tire Tariff, Associated Press, December 19, 2014; In Memoir, Nikki Haley Hammers White House Team But Pledges Allegiance To Trump, by Ron Elving, NPR, November 11, 2019]