Romney: ‘I Cannot Subscribe’ To Silence On Issues Of Trump’s Character

BEDMINSTER TOWNSHIP, NJ - NOVEMBER 19: President-elect Donald Trump calls out to the media as Mitt Romney walks out after a meeting at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club Bed... BEDMINSTER TOWNSHIP, NJ - NOVEMBER 19: President-elect Donald Trump calls out to the media as Mitt Romney walks out after a meeting at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster Township, N.J. on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) MORE LESS

Former presidential candidate and Utah Senate hopeful Mitt Romney on Sunday said he “cannot subscribe” to the mentality that Republicans should stay silent on points of contention with President Donald Trump for the betterment of the party.

In an op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Romney responded to questions he said he often gets on the campaign trail about whether he plans to be supportive of the Trump agenda. He said that while he supports much of the Trump administrations’ successes in the past year, he will not blindly support the President regardless of his use of divisive rhetoric and said he plans to speak out against policies he doesn’t support.

“I have and will continue to speak out when the president says or does something which is divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions, he wrote Sunday. “I do not make this a daily commentary; I express contrary views only when I believe it is a matter of substantial significance.

“People ask me why I feel compelled to express my disagreements with the president. I believe that when you are known as a member of a “team,” and the captain says or does something you feel is morally wrong, if you stay silent you tacitly assent to the captain’s posture.”

Despite receiving a full-throated endorsement from Trump in February, Romney remains a prominent critic of Trump. Their relationship has heated up since the 2016 Republican primaries, when Trump said Romney “choked like a dog” during his 2012 presidential bid against former President Barack Obama.

Ahead of his inauguration, Trump briefly considered Romney for secretary of state, but eventually tapped former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for the gig. Critics speculated Trump was simply trying to humiliate Romney with the courtship.

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  1. Hey Mittens …

    Can I have a ride on your elevator ? ? …

    Weeeeeeeeeee —

  2. Romney is as decisive as always when it comes to Trump. I guess he considers it leadership to sit on the fence and only take the side that serves him at the time. Tomorrow he will be back on the fence leaning the other way.

  3. “He said that while he supports much of the Trump administrations’ successes in the past year …”

    Ok, so let’s see, Trump administration successes in the past year from the perspective of Mittens R. Money:

    1. Passing a tax bill that shoves yet more of the nations wealth upward to the 1%.

    2. … ? …

    Yeah, that checks out.

  4. Oh, Mittens! You are such a fucking phony you make even Melania look like a real person.

  5. He said that while he supports much of the Trump administrations’ successes in the past year,

    Someone should ask Rmoney just which successes in the past year he supports. Might be real telling as to what the constituents will get with him as Senator.

    Then again, I’d like to know what constitutes success in Rmoney’s eyes.

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