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lapfog_1

(29,205 posts) Tue Oct 9, 2018, 10:29 PM Oct 2018

My take on Haley leaving

I think it is unlikely that she authored the NYT op-ed.

I think she is leaving is because

a) she knows something about Trump... that Trump will NOT be running for re-election (that he and Pence might both be in jail or at least out of the picture).

and

b) She probably doesn't want anymore ethics investigation into her use of private jets

and

c) if not running for President in 2020, she is going to feather her nest on the lecture circuit and corporate boards

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My take on Haley leaving (Original Post) lapfog_1 Oct 2018 OP

How about: she believes Trump will start a war/military conflict before the midterms RockRaven Oct 2018 #1

I thought she said oldtime dfl_er Oct 2018 #5

D: She will run @ some point in the future and she can claim that she made the moral choice to leave Renew Deal Oct 2018 #2

She is a RW politician and she has big plans! BigmanPigman Oct 2018 #3

I think it's a fair amount of #c. calimary Oct 2018 #4

She will be appointed Senator from SC when Lindsay is made Att'y General and Sessions is out. mackdaddy Oct 2018 #6

RockRaven

(14,967 posts)

1. How about: she believes Trump will start a war/military conflict before the midterms

Reply to lapfog_1 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 10:32 PM

Oct 2018

to try to sway the elections and she wants no part of the blame for that?

oldtime dfl_er

(6,931 posts)

5. I thought she said

Reply to RockRaven (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 11:10 PM

Oct 2018

she was leaving by the end of the year.

I am fully expecting an "October surprise", don't get me wrong.

Renew Deal

(81,859 posts)

2. D: She will run @ some point in the future and she can claim that she made the moral choice to leave

Reply to lapfog_1 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 10:34 PM

Oct 2018

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)

3. She is a RW politician and she has big plans!

Reply to lapfog_1 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 10:36 PM

Oct 2018

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211260558

calimary

(81,267 posts)

4. I think it's a fair amount of #c.

Reply to lapfog_1 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 10:38 PM

Oct 2018

From what I've read...

Nikki Haley was strapped with up to $1 million in debt at time of her resignation: report

Outgoing United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley had hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt by the time she announced her surprise resignation Tuesday.
Charleston, South Carolina’s Post and Courier reported that Haley owed between $525,000 to about $1.1 million in 2017 per federal ethics disclosures.
Since 2016, the former South Carolina governor owed $25,000 to $65,000 on credit cards and took out a line of credit worth $500,000, along with listing a mortgage worth $250,000.
(snip)

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/nikki-haley-strapped-1-million-debt-time-resignation-report/

And...

3 theories behind Nikki Haley's shocking resignation

(snip)
2. She needed to make some money
Haley has spent a long time in elected (or appointed office). Prior to being elected governor in 2010, she spent six years as a member of the state House. Those are not hugely lucrative jobs. In 2015, the year before she was tapped to serve in the Trump administration, she and her husband reported an annual income of just over $170,000. In 2014, that number was closer to $190,000. And in 2013, Haley and her husband, Michael, reported making $270,000.
According to Haley's 2018 financial disclosure, she reported a significant number of outstanding debts, including somewhere between $25,000 and $65,000 in credit cards, a mortgage in excess of $1 million and a line of credit between $250,000 and $500,000.
With one child in college and another headed there in the next few years, Haley could well have been lured by the seven-figure salaries available to someone with a resume like hers in the private sector.
(Also worth noting: Over the weekend, Citizens Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government ethics watchdog, requested an investigation into Haley's acceptance of seven free flights from South Carolina businessmen in 2017.)

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/politics/nikki-haley-resignation-donald-trump/index.html

Must be embarrassing to be a marquee-name GOPer and come up so short in the money department.

mackdaddy

(1,527 posts)

6. She will be appointed Senator from SC when Lindsay is made Att'y General and Sessions is out.