Mitt Romney may be about to stick it to Donald Trump again
GOP Senator Mitt Romney put his money where his mouth is when he voted to convict and remove Donald Trump from office. Yes, it was a symbolic vote that didn’t change the outcome. But Romney nonetheless staked himself to taking a stand against Trump, and he put his career and legacy on the line in the process. Now Romney is threatening to take another major stand against Trump, and based on his track record, I’m inclined to believe he might actually go through with it.
Now that Joe Biden is emerging as the clear frontrunner in the Democratic primary race, Donald Trump and his allies are back to worrying sick about it. After all, Biden is broadly popular, and Trump is broadly unpopular. When Mitt Romney voted to remove Trump from office, it was specifically over Trump’s failed attempt at blackmailing Ukraine into smearing Biden’s 2020 campaign. Now Trump’s GOP Senate allies are gearing up to try to smear Biden again, and Romney isn’t having any of it.
Mitt Romney said today that the Republican Senate’s new attempt at investigating Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has the “appearance” of being politically motivated. Further, Romney says that he may move to block his own party’s attempts at issuing subpoenas in in the sham investigation.
We’ll see if Mitt Romney actually goes through with it. But he’s already in pretty deep when it comes to standing up against Donald Trump in this Ukraine scandal. We don’t think this sham Senate probe into the Bidens is going to change a single voter’s mind in 2020. But if Romney can shut it down from happening, it’ll save a whole lot of needless ugliness, and we’ll be grateful for it.
