In April and May, three prominent Republican critics of Donald Trump indicated that they would vote for him. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and former Attorney General Bill Barr — citing the former president’s commitment to secure the southern border, reduce inflation and roll back the “woke” agenda of Democrats — declared that Trump is the lesser of two evils.

Issued perhaps to ensure that they have a future in the Republican Party, their tepid support flies in the face of the compelling cases each of them has made that Trump is unfit to be president. Cases that surely represent what they and many other prominent Republicans really think.

Haley, who challenged Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination, has often acknowledged that Trump lost and Biden won the 2020 election. Trump thinks Jan. 6, 2021 “was a beautiful day,” Haley emphasized. “I think it was a terrible day.” His attempts to overturn the election “will be judged harshly by history.” Repeating false claims about widespread fraud “to scare the American people is wrong.”

In February, Trump wondered why Haley’s husband — Maj. Michael Haley, who was deployed in Africa with the South Carolina Army National Guard — was not on the campaign trail with his wife. “If you mock the service of a combat veteran,” she shot back, “you don’t deserve a driver’s license, let alone being president of the United States.” Trump “has never known how to sacrifice and the most........

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