Washington : Indian American Nikki Haley, the top US diplomat to the UN, has described rumours about her having an affair with President Donald Trump as “highly offensive” and “disgusting”.
“It is absolutely not true,” she said.
Haley – the first ever Indian-American Cabinet-ranking official in any presidential administration – strongly quelled rumours in this regard as “highly offensive and disgusting,” in the interview with ‘Politico’.
“I have literally been on Air Force One once and there were several people in the room when I was there,” Haley said.
“She says that I’ve been talking a lot with the president in the Oval about my political future. I’ve never talked once to the president about my future and I am never alone with him,” she said referring to allegations against her in a recent book ‘Fire and Fury’ by New York-based author Michael Wolff.
“So, the idea that these things come out, that’s a problem,” she said expressing her frustration on such rumours.
“But it goes to a bigger issue that we need to always be conscious of: At every point in my life, I’ve noticed that if you speak your mind and you’re strong about it and you say what you believe, there is a small percentage of people that resent that and the way they deal with it is to try and throw arrows, lies or not,” Haley, 46, said during her interview.
