The real reason Mitt Romney just came out swinging against Donald Trump

| 2:21 pm EDT October 4, 2019
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This week we’ve seen Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst publicly defend the whistleblower against the attacks and threats that Donald Trump has been hurling. It was a clear, if subtle, sign that they were not interested in sticking their necks out to protect Trump in his worsening impeachment scandal, and were instead interested in protecting themselves in case he goes down. We figured more GOP Senators would end up doing the same.

Just now Mitt Romney decided that he would be the first Republican Senator to specifically slam Donald Trump for having tried to conspire with China to rig the 2020 election. Romney tweeted this: “When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated. 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 is a selfish prick who has never contributed anything during his time in politics, and who has only ever been interested in helping himself. So why is he doing this right now? Precisely because he’s a selfish prick who’s only in it for himself. Romney has clearly calculated that Trump is likely to go down, and that if he can help nudge Trump out the door, he’ll then get credit for having taken Trump down.

It’s not difficult to parse that Mitt Romney imagines a future in which Donald Trump and Mike Pence have been taken down by this Ukraine scandal, and with a wide open Republican 2020 presidential field, Romney would step in to be the de facto “safe” nominee. Let’s see who else in the GOP Senate now follows Romney’s lead. Some of them have to be already selfishly planning for a post-Trump future.