One of the few high-ranking women in Donald Trump’s administration has denied rumours of a sexual affair with the president.
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina, called the speculation “highly offensive” and “disgusting”.
The rumor spread online and in Washington after the publication of a book, Fire and Fury by the journalist Michael Wolff, who said on TV last week he was “absolutely sure” Trump was having an affair.
“It is absolutely not true,” Haley said in an interview with Politico, regarding speculation that Wolff was referring to her when describing the US president’s alleged lover.
She said Wolff had made a basic factual error in his book, when he wrote that “the president had been spending a notable amount of private time with Haley on Air Force One”.
