Utah Sen. Mitt Romney pledged Wednesday
to do what no other GOP senator would: take a vote of conscience to
convict Donald Trump of impeachable offenses. Romney's vote seals
Trump's fate in the annals of history as the only president to ever draw
bipartisan support for removal of office.
But Romney’s declaration from the Senate floor was much more
than just a recitation of what he planned to do, it was an unmistakable
rebuke of all his Republican colleagues who had abandoned their
responsibilities as public servants for the comforts of the GOP's herd
mentality. "Were I to ignore the evidence what has been presented and
disregard what I believe my oath and the Constitution demands of me for
the sake of a partisan end, it would, I fear, expose my character to
history's rebuke and the censure of my own conscience," Romney said from the Senate floor. Wow.
In explaining his vote, Romney filleted the arguments of
Trump's defense team, namely that Trump couldn't be impeached without
having committed a crime, that Biden's conduct warranted Trump's
actions, and that the ultimate decision should be left up to the voters.
In response, Romney said it "defies reason" to believe that a president
can only be removed from office for criminal behavior. As for Joe and
Hunter Biden, he concluded there was no evidence of criminal conduct on
their part and therefore no justification whatsoever for Trump's call to
investigate.
"There's no question in my mind that were their names not
Biden, the president would never have done what he did," Romney noted.
Finally, he explained that the framers had charged the Senate with the
power to remove a president precisely so the partisan sentiments of
voters wouldn't dictate a president's fate.
After ticking through a list of Trump's actions, Romney
concluded, "The president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public
trust. What he did was not perfect. No, it was a flagrant
assault on our electoral rights, our national security, and our
fundamental values."
Romney added that "corrupting an election" in order to stay in
office was "perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's
oath of office that I can imagine."
In short, Romney held up a mirror for the Republican caucus so
they could see what a trash heap it had become. In speaking his
conscience, he also provided Senate Democrats with a wealth of material
for defeating vulnerable Senate Republicans in the upcoming election.
Prior to giving his remarks, Romney told the New York Times,
“I think the case was made.” He isn't the first GOP senator to agree
that Trump did what he’s accused of doing, he's just the first to
actually uphold his oath of office. Kudos to him.
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