Former Bush official: Nikki Haley resigned after being repeatedly ‘steamrolled’ by John Bolton
Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush Michael Allen told MSNBC on Tuesday that the reason for U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's abrupt resignation was likely because she was tired of being 'steamrolled' by National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, neither of whom have much use for the United Nations.
"It's very curious timing for sure," Allen said. "I have a feeling, though, as some of your other reporters referenced, that's that she felt subordinated under the Secretary of State and the new National Security Adviser."
Allen added that he believed Bolton and Pompeo had "limited the access she had" to the president, dramatically reducing her ability to do her job.
Allen said Haley was probably resigned to "a diminished policy-making role, but at least she would call the shots vis-a-vis the international institutions and the U.N."
But after Bolton, "the main driver about the U.S. withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council", stepped in, Allen suggested Haley had had enough.
"I wonder if she felt like she got steamrolled on some of those decisions or wasn't adequately consulted," he said. "So I think all of this may shake out that this was in the back of her mind."
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