Trump’s attack on Mitt Romney was an effort to intimidate Republican Senators who will be the jury at his impeachment trial.
Romney tweets some bland Romneyism sort of criticism of Trump:
By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 4, 2019
Notice what Romney didn’t say. Sen. Romney didn’t say that he supported impeachment or would vote to convict and remove Trump from office. Sen. Mittens only said that what Trump is doing is wrong.
Trump responded by losing his mind and going ballistic on Romney:
Mitt Romney never knew how to win. He is a pompous “ass” who has been fighting me from the beginning, except when he begged me for my endorsement for his Senate run (I gave it to him), and when he begged me to be Secretary of State (I didn’t give it to him). He is so bad for R’s!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2019
Somebody please wake up Mitt Romney and tell him that my conversation with the Ukrainian President was a congenial and very appropriate one, and my statement on China pertained to corruption, not politics. If Mitt worked this hard on Obama, he could have won. Sadly, he choked!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2019
The whole part of the left saying that we all have to be nice to timid little Mitt Romney because if we don’t he won’t vote to convict to impeach Trump are missing the point. Mitt Romney never said that he would support impeachment or vote to remove Trump. All 53 Republican Senators were asked about Trump’s call for China to investigate Biden and none of them would issue an on the record response.
Trump is trying to make an example of Romney. Trump’s tweets were a warning to every other Republican Senator who will be a part of the jury at Trump’s impeachment trial. Just in case any Republican was even thinking of voting to convict him, Donald Trump is already trying to intimidate the jury.
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