Posted on 09/26/2019 5:34:41 PM PDT by rintintin
As House Democrats push forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Republicans have largely rushed to Mr. Trump’s defense, or at least tempered their criticism to avoid his furious reprisals.
Among the handful of exceptions, though, there has been none louder or more prominent than Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, a figure who once embodied the essence of the Republican Party before Mr. Trump commandeered it, and is now in a lonely category of his own.
Since the first reports a week ago that Mr. Trump urged President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. set off a still-unfolding furor in the capital, Mr. Romney has repeatedly been the first Republican lawmaker to raise concerns about the president’s conduct.
He has pronounced himself “deeply troubled” by Mr. Trump’s effort to enlist a foreign leader for political assistance, and has refused to rule out impeaching the president.
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I wonder what the ultimate justice in that cult really is...
I believe he was recently diagnosed with prostrate cancer. Seems like I read that somewhere before he was running for Senator.
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