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In January 2018, Michael Wolff, the author of the controversial political tell-all book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, maintained that President Trump was currently involved in an extramarital affair — and that although he didn’t have the ultimate proof to incorporate that claim into his book, an oblique reference to the subject could nevertheless be found by those who read between the lines ... toward the end of the book. Pundits quickly identified the passage presumably referenced by Wolff as one that named Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor whom President Trump appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations: In response, Ambassador Haley (who had been the subject of similar extramarital affair rumors while a gubernatorial candidate in 2010) vehemently denied any personal involvement with President Trump during an appearance on Politico's Women Rule podcast: Nonetheless, multiple political websites (mostly of the clickbait variety) ran pieces headlined Nikki Haley Just ACCIDENTALLY Confessed to Being 'Romantically Involved' with Trump! — even though the text of the underlying articles didn't describe Haley confessing to any such thing, inadvertently or otherwise: Those articles merely reported the same thing as the one you're reading now: that Wolff had insinuated an affair between Haley and Trump, and that Haley had strenuously denied it during a recent interview with Politico. No matter how much between-the-line reading one might engage in, nothing the U.N. ambassador said during that Politico interview (or elsewhere) could be remotely construed as her affirming that she was, or had ever been, romantically involved with Donald Trump.
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