PeterS

This is a good example of just how far to the right today's conservatives have moved...as Romney, who is more or less a centrist, is sickened by Trump's dishonesty while his base could care less about what Donald Trump says or does.

I don't know if the Mueller report has exposed Trump for what he is or if it has exposed today's conservative for the degenerates that they've become...all so they could gain political power.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/romney-sickened-by-trump-administration-dishonesty-exposed-by-mueller-report/ar-BBW70Qn?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280&fbclid=IwAR2H-EGdf0BQaiy1YV4wL_a-APkzvOlpybsXVXfwb_nmuSaCSRqZ5aeVbvE

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Friday that he was “sickened” by what he read in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 e******n and Donald Trump’s 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.”

Mitt Romney wearing a suit and tie: Mitt Romney (Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
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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 Manafort’s work in the Ukraine on behalf of Russian interests.

Mueller’s report also laid out numerous contacts between members of Trump’s 2016 campaign and family members with Russians, some of whom offered information deemed helpful in electing the billionaire. It also painted a picture of Trump as a man desperate to keep those ties hidden from the public.

“If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state,” Mueller wrote. “Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment.”

Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012, said reading the report proved difficult.

“Reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders,” Romney wrote.

Romney had been sharply critical of Trump’s business practices, temperament and foreign policy proposals during the 2016 primaries. But when Trump endorsed him for his Senate bid last year, Romney happily accepted.

Liberty Tree

We should care what the wishy washy RINO Romney who ran a gutless, pathetic campaign for President thinks because _____________

Smedley_buzkill

Romney the Republican Obama. There just HAS to be a song in there somewhere.

Rose42

This is why your arguments fail. Comservatives aren’t the problem. The republican party has changed. Liberalism has morphed into progressivism which is k*****g our country from within.

You harp on others yet you fail to see that democrats are no different. They too want political power and everything they do is to that end.

The real problem is the sheeple not the parties.

tbutkovich

Romney should speak out against the party that tried to railroad Trump. His siding with the likes of Nadler shows his true colors, a "Blue Democrat!" His dad, Mitt Romney, would have taken him out to the woodshed for this kind of behavior!

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

I am sickened by both you & Romney.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

So now a greedy former hedge fund manager who you h**ed is a true hero? Could you Guys just once try to find some integrity?

Common_Sense_Matters

I didn't know George W. Romney went by the name Mitt too.

Rose42

Mitt Sr? lol

EmilyD

Is this the Mitt Romney that Dems h**ed before they loved him....like they did John McCain?

Typical hypocrites.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

EmilyD

woodguru

That is the white wash job and avoids the reality. There was more than enough evidence, Mueller ran on the concept that the DOJ cannot indict or bring charges against the sitting president, and made it clear that neither could Barr, nor could he go the other way and clear him...

meanwhile the section 2 is an indictment against the president with all the evidence laid out to successfully impeach and prosecute.

Smedley_buzkill

EmilyD

You need to lose the "sitting president" argument, woodguru. Things have progressed way beyond that narrative.