Philadelphia (USA): Popular Indian-American Republican leader Nicky Haley has revealed that Donald Trump wanted to talk about making him Secretary of State after winning the 2016 presidential election. “I was the governor of South Carolina at the time, in the state in which I grew up, I served him,” said Haley, 48, at an event hosted by Indian Voices for Trump in Norristown, Pennsylvania. It happened and then after the election in 2016, I got a phone call. ”
He said that this phone call was made by Rains Priebus. He was chairman of the Republican National Committee at the time and later became Trump’s first White House chief of staff. “He told me that the president-elect wants to see you,” he told Dr. Marilyn Carson, co-chair of Indian Voices for Trump. At this, I asked – OK, at what time? He said that he wanted to talk to you about the External Affairs Minister. I said on this that I cannot become External Affairs Minister, I am the Governor. And he said he wanted to talk to you. “
Haley then traveled to New York to meet with Trump. About the meeting, Haley said she told the president-elect that she would not be suitable for the post but that she was ready to help. A few days later, he received another call from Priebus in which he told Haley that Trump would call him later regarding the offer of a US ambassador to the United Nations. Haley said he laid down three conditions for accepting the position. She had said in her terms that the post should be at the cabinet level, the ambassador should be a member of the National Security Council and she would not be a woman who said yes.
On this, Trump accepted all his conditions. On US relations with India, he said that President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have got on well with each other and US relations with India have never been so strong before the Trump administration. He said China is the biggest threat to US national security.
