Nikki Haley plotted with Kushner and Ivanka to be Trump vice-president, Pompeo book says

In book aimed at 2024 run, ex-secretary of state also says Trump asked him to be secretary of defense at same time, a nutty idea'

In a new memoir peppered with broadsides at potential rivals in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, accuses Nikki Haley of plotting with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to be named vice-president, even while she served as Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations.

Describing his own anger when Haley secured a personal Oval Office meeting with Trump without checking with him, Pompeo writes that Haley in fact played" Trump's then chief of staff, John Kelly, and instead of meeting the president alone, was accompanied by Trump's daughter and her husband, both senior advisers.