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Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Friday that he was sickened by what he read in special counsel Robert Muellers report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and Donald Trumps attempts to cover it up.
In a scathing statement posted to Twitter, Romney became one of the first Republican members of Congress, and the most prominent, to criticize the Trump administration and the president for the behavior detailed by Mueller.
It is good news that there was insufficient evidence to charge the President of the United States with having conspired with a foreign adversary or with having obstructed justice. The alternative would have taken us through a wrenching process with the potential for constitutional crisis. The business of government can move on, Romney wrote. Even so, I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President. I am also appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens working in a campaign for president welcomed help from Russia including information that had been illegally obtained; that none of them acted to inform American law enforcement; and that the campaign chairman was actively promoting Russian interests in Ukraine.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to 7 and a half years in prison following his conviction on financial fraud charges. The Mueller report detailed Manaforts work in the Ukraine on behalf of Russian interests.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/romney-sickened-by-trump-administration-dishonesty-exposed-by-mueller-report/ar-BBW70Qn?li=BBnb7Kz
So what are you going to do about it Mittens?
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)What he plans to do about it was right in the quote you excerpted... "The business of government can move on..." That was easy.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Are you sickened enough to do that or what?
Foot tap foot tap, yeah well wait
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)demosincebirth
(12,537 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)though you are correct, ecumenicism only goes so far and varies. The fundie right doesn't consider anyone Christian except themselves.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)And accepts him as Lord and Savior, they are Christians.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)can you walk the talk?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)You know you want to. Nothing like a good republican primary fight to heal the nation.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)gulliver
(13,180 posts)Romney says, "It is good news that there was insufficient evidence to charge the President of the United States with having conspired with a foreign adversary or with having obstructed justice. The alternative would have taken us through a wrenching process with the potential for constitutional crisis."
That's Romney telling us he won't vote for impeachment and pre-justifying it with the lie that a president can't be removed from office based on Trump's actions as reported in the Mueller Report.