Former Ambassador to the United Nations and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley criticized President-elect Donald Trump's decision to give her high-profile positions in his administration. robert f kennedy jr And Tulsi GabbardBoth candidates whose potential nomination has received some criticism regarding their backgrounds.
Upon Kennedy's selection to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Haley criticized her lack of expertise in health care and her previous party affiliation as a Democrat.
“Who is RFK Jr.? He is not a healthy person, he has raised questions about what's in our food, and I'm with him,” Haley said on SiriusXM's “Nikki Haley Live.” However, he added, “That's not his background. He's not educated, trained or trained in healthcare at all.” He also sometimes referred to him as a “liberal Democrat”.
Kennedy has a long record of criticizing vaccinesAlthough he recently claimed that he is not anti-vaccine. But public health experts have objected to his long record misleading statement Raising questions about the vaccine's safety and worrying that the push for reform could reverse decades of hard-earned victories vaccination rates against serious illness,
Haley, who challenged Trump in the GOP primaries and later endorsed him, criticized the former congresswoman representing Hawaii and Trump's selection as director of national intelligence for her “disgusting” past statements on human rights violations in Syria. Gabbard was also criticized, which Haley said. Says the echo of Russian propaganda.
“This is the work of an honest broker with no apparent policy bias,” Haley said. “She went to Syria for a photo-op in 2017 [Syrian President Bashir] When al-Assad was massacring his own people … to me, it was disgusting.” Haley added, “Everything he said about it was Russian stuff, Russian propaganda.”
Gabbard defended herself in 2017 meeting with Assad at the time as a “fact-finding mission”, although he later described him as a “brutal dictator”. In 2019, he also expressed opposition to US involvement in the Syrian civil war and said that Assad “is not an enemy of the United States because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States.” The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Gabbard has no experience in the intelligence field and opposes United States intervention in the war in Ukraine.
The Senate is expected to provide advice and consent during the confirmation process after Trump formalizes his nomination. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, whom Trump planned to nominate as attorney general, Has taken back His name came up for consideration Thursday amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and illegal drug use against him.