{"id":1028446,"date":"2023-12-06T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1028446"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:01:02","slug":"icymi-mother-jones-nikki-haley-touts-an-embellished-account-of-her-un-triumphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-mother-jones-nikki-haley-touts-an-embellished-account-of-her-un-triumphs\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Mother Jones: Nikki Haley Touts an Embellished Account of Her UN \u201cTriumphs\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cIn her recent book, With All Due Respect, though, Haley embellishes the truth about her days at the UN. She hails the supposedly tough stances she took there in service of Trump\u2019s erratic foreign policy as tremendous diplomatic achievements.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet two supposed wins she highlights were hollow and produced little in real-world results that bolstered the security of the United States. They arguably made the world less safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2023\/12\/nikki-haley-touts-an-embellished-account-of-her-united-nations-triumphs\/\"><strong>Mother Jones<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Nikki Haley Touts an Embellished Account of Her UN \u201cTriumphs\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: David Corn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When the super PAC supporting Nikki Haley\u2019s presidential campaign released its first ad touting the former Republican South Carolina governor, the spot led with her service as United Nations ambassador during the Trump administration. Opening with a shot of Haley at the UN, the 30-second ad declared, \u201cNikki Haley fought America\u2019s enemies at the UN and won.\u201d <strong>In her recent book, With All Due Respect, though, Haley embellishes the truth about her days at the UN. She hails the supposedly tough stances she took there in service of Trump\u2019s erratic foreign policy as tremendous diplomatic achievements. Yet two supposed wins she highlights were hollow and produced little in real-world results that bolstered the security of the United States. They arguably made the world less safe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The UN sanctions she helped enact were hardly the first penalties levied on the North Korean regime for its development of nuclear weapons.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The sanctions Haley had helped engineer were not working.<\/strong> Her third round of sanctions approved by the UN in December also did not change Kim\u2019s tune.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>But she claims that when she finished at the UN, due to the sanctions she engineered and other measures implemented by the United States, the North Korea situation was \u201cin a better place in 2019 than\u2026in 2016 and 2017.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Despite the UN sanctions, North Korea continued to conduct test launches of ballistic missiles and develop more weapons and nuclear material.<\/strong> Thanks to Trump\u2019s meetings with Kim, this tyrant became less isolated and was granted more latitude within the global community. <strong>The nuclear threat posed by North Korea was not less; it was likely greater<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In her book, Haley points to Iran\u2019s aggression\u2014such as the seizing of international ships in the Strait of Hormuz\u2014to justify Trump\u2019s decision \u201cto withdraw from what was a terrible deal.\u201d She cites ending the supposed appeasement of Iran as one of the accomplishments of the Trump administration that occurred during her time at the UN. Yet none of this slowed Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Not surprisingly, the \u201cbetter deal\u201d Trump promised never materialized. (Haley neglects to mention this.) And nonproliferation experts say that <strong>in the years following Trump\u2019s withdrawal\u2014and his imposition of new sanctions on Tehran\u2014Iran moved closer to a nuclear weapon. <\/strong>Even in her book, Haley acknowledges that \u201cthe Iranian regime has begun enriching uranium beyond the level permitted in the agreement.\u201d So what was the big win for Haley here? <strong>Her actions at the UN did nothing to restrain Iran.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Haley and her campaign crow that at the UN she battled America\u2019s foes and prevailed.<strong> But her account of her heroic exploits at the international body are overblown. More important, her actions did not address the nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran that imperil the United States and its allies.<\/strong> Her book demonstrates she can talk tough; it also shows she has a tough time sticking to the truth.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cIn her recent book, With All Due Respect, though, Haley embellishes the truth about her days at the UN. She hails the supposedly tough stances she took there in service of Trump\u2019s erratic foreign policy as tremendous diplomatic achievements.&nbsp; Yet two supposed wins she highlights were hollow and produced little in real-world results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Mother Jones: Nikki Haley Touts an Embellished Account of Her UN \u201cTriumphs\u201d - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-mother-jones-nikki-haley-touts-an-embellished-account-of-her-un-triumphs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-06T04:47:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-16T18:01:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-mother-jones-nikki-haley-touts-an-embellished-account-of-her-un-triumphs\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-mother-jones-nikki-haley-touts-an-embellished-account-of-her-un-triumphs\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Mother Jones: Nikki Haley Touts an Embellished Account of Her UN \u201cTriumphs\u201d - 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