Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) has voted to convict President Donald Trump on abuse of power.
Romney said in his speech on the Senate floor (courtesy of the Daily Wire):
“The allegations made in the articles of impeachment are very serious,” Romney said on the floor of the Senate. “As a Senator juror I swore an oath before God to exercise impartial justice. I am profoundly religious, my faith is at the heart of who I am.”
“I take an oath before God as enormously consequential,” Romney continued. “I knew from the outset that being tasked with judging the president, the leader of my own party, would be the most difficult decision I have ever faced. I was not wrong.”
“The grave question the Constitution tasks Senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to a level of a high crime and misdemeanor,” Romney later added. “Yes, he did. The president asked a foreign government to investigate his political rival. The president withheld vital military funds from that government to press it to do so. The president delays funds for an American ally at war with Russian invaders. The president’s purpose was personal and political. Accordingly the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust. What he did was not perfect, no, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security, and our fundamental values.”
“Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destruction violation of ones oath of office that I can imagine,” Romney continued. “I acknowledge that my verdict will not remove the president from office.”
Guess Romney is going to be a one-term senator.
Tim Young got it right:
Mitt Romney just solidified his future career as a CNN contributor.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) February 5, 2020
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