What does Nikki Haley think she’s doing?

| 11:40 pm EST November 25, 2018
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Nikki Haley announced last month that she was going to resign as Donald Trump’s United Nations Ambassador, but she hasn’t yet vacated the job. Now that Russia has taken military action against Ukraine today, and Ukraine is seeking the UN’s help accordingly, it’s placed Haley right in the middle of things, even though she’s not long for the job. She’s responded to it this evening, but her response is – shall we say – strange.

This evening Nikki Haley tweeted that “An emergency Security Council meeting has been called for tomorrow at 11:00am.” Okay, that’s the right way to play this. But here’s the thing: she posted this in response to a tweet from the “Foreign Correspondent” from the Daily Signal, a far right propaganda outlet published by the Heritage Foundation – the think tank that chooses Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominees. Huh?

Nikki Haley hadn’t tweeted anything about the Russia-Ukraine situation all day, but then she decided that she needed to publicly explain herself to the Heritage Foundation. This is just too weird. Or perhaps it makes too much sense. Haley permanently ruined her political ambitions when she signed onto the criminal Trump administration; that stink will never come off. But her resignation appears to be part of a delusional plan to run for president, if not in 2020, then perhaps in 2024. These days no one gets anywhere in national Republican politics without the support of the Heritage Foundation.

In any case, this whole thing is just bizarre. Nikki Haley announced her resignation the day after powerful legal watchdog CREW caught her committing the same kind of ethics violations that so many other Trump regime officials have been caught up in. She’s clearly hoping to distance herself from the collapse of the Trump regime. Yet here she is, still on the job, and suddenly wedged in between Trump’s desire to let Putin seize Ukraine, and the rest of the world’s desire to take Putin down. What’s she doing?