Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she will vote for Donald Trump in November—a move that should not come as a surprise given that (1) she laid the groundwork to do so in late February, saying, “I have serious concerns about Donald Trump, [but] I have more serious concerns about Joe Biden,” and (2) she’s a shameless Republican, and this is what they do. Still, it’s worth noting the many reasons she previously gave for why Trump should not be president—that is, before she sacrificed her last shred of dignity to back him.
“Unhinged” and “diminished”
After Trump questioned why Haley’s husband, Michael Haley, was not on the campaign trail back in February, saying to supporters, “Where is he? He’s gone. He knew. He knew,” the former UN ambassador wrote on X: “Michael is deployed serving our country, something you know nothing about.” Then, in an interview on Today, she called him “unhinged” and “more diminished” than he was in 2016.
“Can’t win a general election”
Last July, Haley spoke about Trump on CNBC: “We can’t have, as Republicans, him as the nominee. He can’t win a general election. That’s the problem. We’ve got to go and have someone who can actually win.”
Mentally unfit
Last year, without directly naming Trump (or Biden), Haley said the US should have compulsory competency tests for elected officials over the age of 75, saying, “In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire.” Earlier this year, she directly questioned Trump’s mental fitness after he appeared to confuse her with Nancy Pelosi. “They’re saying he got confused, that he was talking about something else, he’s talking about Nancy Pelosi,” Haley said in Keene, New Hampshire. “The concern I have is—I’m not saying anything derogatory, but when you’re dealing with the pressures of the presidency, we can’t have someone else that we question whether they’re mentally fit to do this.” Later, she added: “My parents are up in age, and I love them dearly. But when you see them hit a certain age, there is a decline. That’s a fact—ask any doctor. There is a decline.”
Voting for him is “suicide” for the country
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal in February, Haley said that the idea of making Trump the party’s nominee “is like suicide for our country.”
Might not abide by the Constitution
Asked earlier this year if she thought the ex-president would follow the Constitution were he to win reelection, Haley responded: “I don’t know. I don’t—I don’t know…. I mean…you always want to think someone will, but I don’t know.”
A sexual abuser whom America is too good for
Haley wrote this on social media after a jury ordered Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll more than $83 million in damages for having defamed her by claiming she was lying about his assault on her in the ’90s.
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“Not qualified to be the president of the United States”
In addition to calling Trump “unhinged” and “diminished” following his comments about her husband, Haley declared that Trump “showed that with that kind of disrespect for the military, he’s not qualified to be the president of the United States, because I don’t trust him to protect them.” Emphasis ours, because it really says it all, doesn’t it?
