Mitt Romney says Trump’s foreign outreach was ‘wrong and appalling’
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Here’s some reaction to Mitt Romney breaking step with Republicans to criticize Donald Trump:
From Mitt Romney, who has absolutely NOTHING to lose (and, in a party which, in the event of Gotterdammerung, has no other road-tested presidential alternatives), comes a small ration of self-interested and excruciatingly calibrated courage.
Thank you for your bravery. https://t.co/QelEqaW4hS
I’m sorry but I thought we were talking about Mitt Romney.
People can mock Mitt Romney. But he’s using his platform as a United States senator at this moment. A lot of Republicans are looking to him for leadership at this moment.
We’re at the stage of concern tweets but not at the stage of any talk of consequences or doing anything. https://t.co/Xf1XRj17k9
It’s sad that we’ve gotten to a point where such a self-evident statement could simultaneously be so brave. https://t.co/badVmMc227
Senator is Mitt Romney of Utah has issued a statement rejecting Trump’s stated motivation for urging foreign investigations of Joe Biden and condemned Trump’s outreach to China and Ukraine as by all appearances ‘brazen’, ‘unprecedented’, ‘wrong’ and ‘appalling’.
Here’s Romney’s statement in full:
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.