{"id":103369,"date":"2018-09-07T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T15:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=103369"},"modified":"2018-09-07T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T15:21:18","slug":"did-nikki-haley-write-anti-trump-resistance-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=103369","title":{"rendered":"Did Nikki Haley write anti-Trump \u2018resistance\u2019 column?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<style>.mcclatchy-embed{position:relative;padding:40px 0 56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%}.mcclatchy-embed iframe{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%}<\/style>\n<div class=\"mcclatchy-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/politics-government\/article199720199.html\/video-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h5>Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has quickly gained national and international attention as America&#8217;s Ambassador to the United Nations. Here are some highlights from her first year in international diplomacy.<\/h5>\n<p>BY BRISTOW MARCHANT<br \/>\nThe State<\/p>\n<p>The political world is abuzz with speculation about who penned a scathing anti-Trump column published in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/opinion\/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0by an anonymous member of President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>One possible author may not immediately spring to mind \u2014 US. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n<p>The former S.C. governor \u2014 who Thursday said she did not write the critique \u2014 has been pointed to as a possible author of the op-ed by some pundits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Nations ambassador is, like (Vice President Mike) Pence, one of Trump\u2019s favorites,\u201d wrote\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/05\/politics\/donald-trump-mystery-op-ed\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN analyst Chris Cillizza<\/a>. \u201cShe is also, however, someone deeply engaged on the world stage and a voice of concern when it comes to how the president views Russia and Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaley, again like Pence, is ambitious and has her eye on national office. Would this service (writing the Times column) that goal?\u201d Cillizza said.<\/p>\n<p>Others were more sold on Haley\u2019s possible involvement.<\/p>\n<p>John McCormack, a writer for the conservative Weekly Standard, put together\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/McCormackJohn\/status\/1037429845955932160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Twitter poll<\/a>on who the anonymous author was, including Haley, White House chief of staff John Kelly, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and first daughter Ivanka Trump.<\/p>\n<p>When voting closed Thursday, Haley finished in first place with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/794323\/who-wrote-oped-about-resistance-inside-trump-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">32 percent of the vote<\/a>s cast.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Canadian betting site Bovada placed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/09\/05\/bookies-place-odds-on-anonymous-white-house-official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the odds of Haley being the author<\/a>\u00a0at 10-to-1. Embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the favorite, however, at odds of 5-to-2. The odds Trump himself wrote the piece were listed at 25-to-1.<\/p>\n<p>Haley\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment Thursday from The State. However, New York Times reporter Michael Schwirtz tweeted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2018\/politics\/amp-stories\/the-fix-these-trump-officials-have-denied-writing-nyt-resistance-op-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haley said \u201cno\u201d<\/a>\u00a0when asked if she wrote the op-ed while walking into the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The op-ed focuses at length on foreign policy, an area where Haley has been a prominent administration voice.<\/p>\n<p>It notes the country\u2019s foreign policy establishment has worked effectively with U.S. allies and taken measures to punish Russia, in particular, for misbehavior, even as \u201cPresident Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators &#8230; and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other possible authors of the piece also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/pence-pompeo-deny-authorship-of-anonymous-new-york-times-op-ed-on-trump\/2018\/09\/06\/ca116fd2-b1c3-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.535b74386673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have ruled themselves out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pence spokesman Jarrod Agen\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/VPComDir\/status\/1037656944348221440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1037656944348221440%7Ctwgr%5E373939313b73706563696669635f73706f7274735f616374696f6e&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fpence-pompeo-deny-authorship-of-anonymous-new-york-times-op-ed-on-trump%2F2018%2F09%2F06%2Fca116fd2-b1c3-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0that, \u201cThe Vice President puts his name on his op-eds. The @nytimes should be ashamed and so should the person who wrote the false, illogical, and gutless op-ed. Our office is above such amateur acts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also denied authoring the piece. He told reporters the op-ed was part of an \u201cincredibly disturbing\u201d phenomenon of the media trying to undermine the president, according to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come from a place where if you\u2019re not in a position to execute the commander\u2019s intent, you have a singular option, that is to leave,\u201d Pompeo said.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/politics-government\/article217915780.html\">http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/politics-government\/article217915780.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}