Friday, December 29, 2017

What an embarrassment this whole admin is

U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley assured the prime minister of Poland last week that the United States was aware of Russia’s covert attempts to influence the elections in Binomo (which does not exist), a small island in the South China Sea that had recently declared independence.

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In [a new video from the Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus], a woman who sounds an awful lot like Nikki Haley takes a phone call from a man she believes to be new Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki. The alleged interaction came hours after the United Nations voted to reject America’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Poland abstained from that vote, and Haley opens the conversation by expressing America’s gratitude for its abstention.

“Yes, this is Nikki. How are you Mr. Minister?” Haley (ostensibly) says. “Let me start with very much thanking you for the support we’ve received on the vote today. We will never forget it.”

[...]

“You know Binomo?” he asks.

“Yes, yes,” Haley assures him.

“They had elections and we suppose Russians had its intervention.”

“Yes, of course they did, absolutely,” Haley agrees. “Let me find out exactly what our stance is on that, and what if anything the U.S. is doing or thinks should be done and I will report back to you on that as well.”

  NY Magazine
Will be waiting for the USG to deny that's actually Haley.
In previous prank calls, Vovan and Lexus duped Energy Secretary Rick Perry, congresswoman Maxine Waters, and Senator John McCain. In the call with Perry, the pranksters tricked the secretary into engaging in an extended discussion of pig-manure-based biofuels.

Asked about the veracity of the recording, Haley’s spokesman John Degory told the Post and Courier, “We have nothing to share on that at this time.”
Which is going to make it harder to deny.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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