Nikki Haley slams rumours she had an affair with President Donald Trump as first lady’s spokesman insists marriage remains intact
The speculation coincided with reports Trump’s lawyer paid porn star Stormy Daniels US$130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged affair with the president
The US ambassador to the United Nations has lashed out at rumours she had an affair with President Donald Trump, calling the gossip “highly offensive” and “disgusting”.
Nikki Haley told Politico’s Women Rule podcast on Friday that salacious suggestions made by author Michael Wolff, who penned the explosive White House insider tome Fire and Fury, were “absolutely not true”.
The 46-year-old married mother of two said she has faced similar insinuations in the past and dismissed it as resentment borne from jealousy.
“Do I like it? No. Is it right? No. Is it going to slow me down? Not at all,” Haley said. “Any time this has happened, it only makes me fight harder, it only makes me work harder. And I do it for the sake of other women that are behind me.”
Haley, a rising star in the Republican Party, was the first female governor of South Carolina. She joined the Trump administration despite initially criticising the president’s candidacy.