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Shots Fired: Mitt Romney Will Vote to Convict Trump

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Shots Fired: Mitt Romney Will Vote to Convict Trump

The senator from Utah just trashed the president on the Senate floor.

By Greg Walters

Feb 5 2020, 2:25pm

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney just absolutely trashed President Trump on the Senate floor, and said he’ll vote to remove Trump from office.

In a brief speech, Romney, the Republican senator from Utah, made history by announcing he’d be the lone GOP guilty vote against Trump. While acknowledging that the vote is destined to fail in the Republican-controlled chamber, Romney laid out a scathing case against Trump and said he could vote to acquit while staying true to his oath before God to due impartial justice in the Senate impeachment trial.

“The president asked a foreign government to investigate his political rival,” Romney said, endorsing the heart of Democrats’ impeachment case against the president. “What the president did was wrong. Grievously wrong.”

Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012 who brutally criticized Trump during the 2016 campaign season, will now make history as the first senator to ever vote to convict a president from his own party in an impeachment trial.

In an interview on Fox News immediately after his speech, news anchor Chris Wallace raised the possibility that Trump would seek retribution against Romney.

“You realize, this is war?” Wallace asked. “Donald Trump will never forgive you for this.”

“I know in my heart that what I'm doing is right. I understand there's going to be enormous consequence. I don't have a choice in that regard," Romney said.

This is a developing story. Refresh for updates.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdjxv/shots-fired-mitt-romney-will-vote-to-convict-trump
 

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It was to be expected. Romney hates Trump, its obvious.

Perhaps this decision is purely political, maybe its personal dislike.
Either way, its his vote to cast, but feel it to be a costly one.

Curious to see if any Democrats don't vote to convict now.
Romney hates Trump because he succeeded where Romney failed and Romney wants another chance to run for President and can't do that with Trump still in the White House.
 

bver_hunter

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Romney is honest enough to use his conscience and rightly so. What he said about Trump is dead accurate. After all the existing evidence and the manner in which the Whitehouse obstructed Congress and Justice is terrible. The only Impeachment where the very partisan Senate used their powers to block the witnesses and documentation from being made available. Sad!!
 

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Romney is so bitter he has chosen to light himself on fire.
 

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Romney hates Trump because he succeeded where Romney failed and Romney wants another chance to run for President and can't do that with Trump still in the White House.
Exactly, he's a loser and now a double loser.
 

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Mitt voted for more witnesses, last week because he didn't have enough evidence. This week he voted to convict... without the vital evidence. What a whack job!
 

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Ironically, he's done in the GOP now.
So if Romney was to defect to the Democrat party, he would probably be their best option. He is less 'extreme' than Sanders, and has no skeletons like Biden.
That would be great, then the dems would only need 2 more seats.
 

bver_hunter

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Mitt voted for more witnesses, last week because he didn't have enough evidence. This week he voted to convict... without the vital evidence. What a whack job!
He probably wanted the witnesses to testify that Trump was Innocent. The testimonies so far has him as guilty for any non-partisan person following this Impeachment Case!!

But it is very likely that it would have been from the frying pan into the fire for Trump if the witnesses and full documentation was provided for not only the Senators, but also to the 75% of Americans who wanted to see it for themselves as well!!
 

Dutch Oven

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Mitt always did say that about 47% of Americans are useless types who live off the public teat. I guess he just wanted to make it clear which side he considered himself to be on by joining the 47% of Senators fitting that description.
 

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He probably wanted the witnesses to testify that Trump was Innocent. The testimonies so far has him as guilty for any non-partisan person following this Impeachment Case!!

But it is very likely that it would have been from the frying pan into the fire for Trump if the witnesses and full documentation was provided for not only the Senators, but also to the 75% of Americans who wanted to see it for themselves as well!!
Mitt's vote was personal. Period.
 

bver_hunter

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Mitt's vote was personal. Period.
If it was personal then he would have voted for BOTH the articles, not just one article that he voted for. He just made it very clear regarding the article that he voted for was what he thought that Trump broke the law. Period!!
 

bver_hunter

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Mitt always did say that about 47% of Americans are useless types who live off the public teat. I guess he just wanted to make it clear which side he considered himself to be on by joining the 47% of Senators fitting that description.
Those 52% of the Americans want to keep a crook in office. Period!!
 

jcpro

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If it was personal then he would have voted for BOTH the articles, not just one article that he voted for. He just made it very clear regarding the article that he voted for was what he thought that Trump broke the law. Period!!
LOL!! No Republican, even one as craven as Romney, would ever convict on the obstruction of Congress charge. It violated the separation of powers, to begin with. Any member of Congress who voted "guilty" on that charge is a traitor to the Constitution and to the American people. Par for the course for the Pelosi led Democrats, but too far for even a RINO.
 

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LOL!! No Republican, even one as craven as Romney, would ever convict on the obstruction of Congress charge. It violated the separation of powers, to begin with. Any member of Congress who voted "guilty" on that charge is a traitor to the Constitution and to the American people. Par for the course for the Pelosi led Democrats, but too far for even a RINO.
I was actually surprised that Manchin, Sinema and other moderate Democrats didn't vote to acquit on article two obstruction of justice. By voting to convict on article one, that should have taken off the heat from the Democratic party faithful.
 

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LOL!! No Republican, even one as craven as Romney, would ever convict on the obstruction of Congress charge. It violated the separation of powers, to begin with. Any member of Congress who voted "guilty" on that charge is a traitor to the Constitution and to the American people. Par for the course for the Pelosi led Democrats, but too far for even a RINO.
I wish there was a font with flames to highlight that line.
It really deserves the full fire and brimstone treatment.

Total George Orwell like quote, well done.
 

jcpro

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It's an accurate statement. You disagree, but the again, you don't know anything. The Democratic senators cannot hide behind ignorance. They knowingly voted to convict the accused on a charge they knew was illegitimate. It's not an opinion, in the case you want to argue it, it's a fact.
 

Frankfooter

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It's an accurate statement. You disagree, but the again, you don't know anything. The Democratic senators cannot hide behind ignorance. They knowingly voted to convict the accused on a charge they knew was illegitimate. It's not an opinion, in the case you want to argue it, it's a fact.
Trump admitted to trying to bribe Ukraine in the transcript he released.
That's the fact.

Nobody doubts that he did it.
 

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It's an accurate statement.
Anybody who actually believes that, is admitting that they are in a cult.

Listen to yourselves: "If you believe that our leader is capable of any wrongdoing, then you are treasonous."
 

Valcazar

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Trump admitted to trying to bribe Ukraine in the transcript he released.
That's the fact.

Nobody doubts that he did it.
To be fair to jcpro's Constitutional Scholarship, he was referring to article two, which is a separate issue from what Trump did with Ukraine.
 
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