ROMNEY TURNS AGAINST TRUMP, REPUBLICAN SENATOR VOTING TO CONVICT PRESIDENT [with Comment by AB]
WND Staff
Dear Mr. Romney: The Law of the Cosmos says whatever energy you put out either negative or positive comes back to you in multiple amount. So, what can you expect with your damning of President Trump? Karma is instant, sir. --- AB
Mitt says he'll tell his kids: 'I did my duty to the best of my ability'
Published February 5, 2020
U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who viciously attacked Donald Trump when Trump was seeking to be the GOP nominee for president in 2016 and recommended to the party several ways to get rid of him, has unveiled the second chapter of his opposition to the president by announcing he is joining Democrats to vote to convict him in his Senate impeachment trial.
In an interview, according to the Atlantic,the failed GOP presidential nominee in 2012 said, "This has been the most difficult decision I have ever had to make in my life."
The report from McKay Coppins said, "Romney, a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, described to me the power of taking an oath before God: 'It's something which I take very seriously.' Throughout the trial, he said, he was guided by his father’s favorite verse of Mormon scripture: Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good. 'I have gone through a process of very thorough analysis and searching, and I have prayed through this process,' he told me. 'But I don’t pretend that God told me what to do.'"
Romney claimed that the "evidence" was enough.
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"The president did in fact pressure a foreign government to corrupt our election process,” Romney claimed. "And really, corrupting an election process in a democratic republic is about as abusive and egregious an act against the Constitution—and one's oath—that I can imagine. It's what autocrats do."
The Senate was to hold the actual vote on the impeachment articles later Wednesday. It was not expected that other Republicans – and even some Democrats – shared Romney's opinion and Trump's acquittal was all but certain.
But Romney's history of antipathy toward the president goes way back.
And it's not a gentle, compromising dislike, wither.
While Trump was seeking the 2016 nomination, Romney gave a speech of 20 minutes in which he described Trump as "worthless," a "fraud," and to make the claim "he's playing the American public for suckers: he gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat."
Romney's predictions have been anything but accurate. The U.S. economic has boomed under Trump, religious rights have been protected, the nation's influence around the globe has increased and much, much more.
Just as Trump detailed to thunderous applause in his 2020 State of the Union speech Tuesday.
Romney actually had predicted that Trump would be defeated by Hillary Clinton – who now twice is a loser in the race to be president.
Romney talked to Republicans about "tactical voting," in which voters would choose to support other candidates still in the race at that point, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or John Kasich – and that way they would have the best chance to defeat Trump.
Online historical resources decry Romney's assault as "an unprecedented attack by a major U.S. party's presidential nominee against the party's front-runner for the nomination."
One commentator at the New York Times concluded, at the time: "Mitt Romney's political assault on Donald J. Trump on Thursday was so savage that historians strained to recall any precedent in American politics, with a major party's former nominee blistering his party's leading presidential candidate in such a personal and sweeping fashion."
Trump, at the time, had said it was "another desperate move by the man who should have easily beaten Barrack (sic) Obama."
He also described how, during 2012's race, Romney had " begged" for Trump's endorsement.
"I could have said, 'Mitt, drop to your knees.' He would have dropped to his knees,'" Trump said.
Another commentator said being called "phony" by Romney "is like being called ugly by a frog."
The Atlantic also reported, "Romney’s vote will do little to reorient the political landscape. The president’s acquittal has been all but certain for weeks, as Republicans have circled the wagons to protect Trump. But the Utahan’s sharp indictment ensures that at least one dissenting voice from within the president’s party will be on the record."
It also confirmed that Romney has "remained stubbornly independent" since he was elected to the Senate and was in Washington with Trump.
The Atlantic also warned Romney now is "bracing for an uncertain political future."
"The truth is that Romney’s decisive break with Trump could end up hurting him even in Utah, a red state where the president is uncommonly unpopular. What that means for his reelection prospects, the senator couldn’t say. (He doesn’t have to face voters again until 2024.)"
In his remarks prepared for delivery on the Senate floor, Romney admitted defeat – that his vote wouldn't do anything.
"The results of this Senate Court will in fact be appealed to a higher court: the judgement (sic) of the American people," he said.
"I will tell my children and their children that I did my duty to the best of my ability, believing that my country expected it of me."
And he admitted there will be political fallout.
"I am aware that there are people in my party and in my state who will strenuously disapprove of my decision, and in some quarters, I will be vehemently denounced. I am sure to hear abuse from the president and his supporters."
He sided with the evidence from Rep. Adam Schiff and other prosecutors from the House.