By Buck Sexton
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The Senator fromUtah, formerly the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, has made no secret of his personal loathing for Trump. During the 2016 presidential contest, Romney gave speeches in which he called the Republican party standard-bearer a “phony” and a “fraud” who is “very, very not smart” when it comes to foreign policy. And those were some of the nicer comments. Romney claims he voted against Trump purely out of a duty to his conscience. Among many problems with that is, when it suited his own needs, Romney was perfectly happy to play along and bend the knee to the president. During the 2016 presidential transition period, Romney met with the president-elect to ask for the coveted Secretary of State job. Trump ended up going with Rex Tillerson (an admittedly bad choice in its own right), but in 2018, it seemed there was a thaw in relations when Romney ran his successful campaign for a Utah Senate seat. Whatever gratitude Romney felt to Trump for that victory didn’t last long...
the form of a majority of Senators – including some from their own party – voting to acquit President Trump and end this maniacal attempt to undo the vote of the American people in 2016 before they could make the same mistake again in 2020. The Senate – the “world’s greatest deliberative body” – had the chance to impose some semblance of decency in the face of Speaker Pelosi’s farcical, bad- faith effort to abort a presidency on trumped- up allegations. Then Republican Mitt Romney decided to step in...
When it suited his own needs, Romney was perfectly happy to play along and bend the knee to the president.
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