“There’s no question that the president asked a foreign power to investigate his political foe,” Romney said ahead of the floor statement he delivered Wednesday. As more information came out, Romney came to a different and more worrisome conclusion: that the president had committed a potentially impeachable act. But as a loyal Republican who was his party’s 2012 nominee for president, Romney found himself caught between fidelity to party and his own conscience. Were mine the deciding vote” to remove Trump from office, he said, “I hope I would have the strength of character to cast that vote. The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., attacked Romney after he made his announcement and called form him to be expelled from the Republican Party.

Source: Washington Post February 05, 2020 19:05 UTC