![]() ![]() Laura Ingraham, for example, called Romney “the ultimate selfish, preening, self-centered politician.” That’s incredibly stupid, of course, because there is no upside for Romney here apart from knowing that he did the right thing. He’ll also become the target of the Fox News outrage machine. ![]() He’ll be harassed by Trump’s followers and shunned by many of the same conservatives who chose Romney to be their presidential nominee just eight years ago. While he will be the only Republican judged kindly by history with regard to the entire impeachment process, things will be very unpleasant for him in the short term. Obviously, Romney is very likely not risking his life - although he has almost definitely received some death threats, and there are probably members of the Trump cult out there who are plotting the senator’s demise.īut the 2012 GOP presidential nominee has undoubtedly made his own life much more difficult in order to cast a vote that made no difference to the outcome of the trial. It’s the political equivalent to a firefighter running into a burning building to save a stranger - because it certainly seems as though the political system is on fire and American democracy in imminent danger. #TRUMPS CULT ANIMOSITY SHOWS NO UP TRIAL#Romney’s vote to convict Trump was not just historic - it was the first time ever that a senator of the president’s party voted “guilty” in an impeachment trial - but also an act of unbelievable courage. However, while there is clearly a large ideological overlap between the two men, the senator’s remarks show that their characters could not be more different. Mitt Romney (R-UT) stood before his colleagues on Wednesday to announce in a scathing speech that Donald Trump “is guilty of an appalling abuse of the public trust,” he pointed out that he votes with the president 80 percent of the time. ![]()
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