{UAH} EVEN POOR MITT ROMNEY HAS TURNED THE CORNER

Mitt Romney’s Shift on Donald Trump: From Critic to Supporter.

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‘ThyBlackMan.com) Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) became the first, and for a time, the only senator in U.S. history to vote to convict an impeached president of his own party. That vote followed the first impeachment of President Donald Trump over the allegation that he solicited Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

Mitt Romney’s Shift on Donald Trump: From Critic to Supporter.

Romney also voted to convict Trump after the president’s second impeachment over his alleged incitement of an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. This time, Romney joined six other Republican senators.

During the 2016 presidential primary, Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, in a speech eviscerated Trump’s character and predicted economic and foreign policy disaster should Trump become president.

There are a number of people who claim that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake. There is indeed evidence of that. … He applauds the prospect of twisting the Constitution to limit first amendment freedom of the press. This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.

“Here’s what I know. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He’s playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat.

“His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill.”

That was so then.

In Romney’s resent post-presidential election CNN appearance, he sang a strikingly different tune: