On Tuesday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) rejected President Donald Trump and several of his GOP allies’ bogus conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, hacked the 2016 election.
“I saw no evidence from our intelligence community, nor from the representatives today for the Department of State, that there is any evidence of any kind that suggests that Ukraine interfered in our elections,” Romney said after State Department official David Hale’s hearing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“We have ample evidence that Russia interfered in our elections,” he added.
ROMNEY: "I saw no evidence from our intelligence community, nor from the representatives today from the Department of State, that there is *any* evidence of *any* kind that suggests that Ukraine interfered in our elections. We have ample evidence that Russia interfered…" pic.twitter.com/zSTBcEviSQ
— Marcus J. DiPaola (@marcusdipaola) December 3, 2019
National security and intelligence officials have universally concluded that Russia meddled with the election, though Trump has repeatedly pushed the debunked Ukraine conspiracy theory in his pursuit to dig up dirt on his political rivals.
Several of Romney’s GOP colleagues in the Senate, such as Sens. John Kennedy (R-LA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), have embraced the conspiracy theory in their defense of Trump amid the House’s impeachment investigation into his Ukraine-Biden scheme.
I’d say he’s a Not So Secret Asshat!
And the break begins. Romney has already survived the slings and arrows and come out on top. Nothing to lose by criticizing or breaking from the criminal in the white house and his sheep in the Rethug party.
Right now I see 4-5 senators voting to impeach and remove. But they have to be watching what is happening in the House. Nancy was on track to pick up 8 more seats, but now it looks as if that number could go as high as 15. You could see Trump not being removed, losing the election and Republicans blaming Trump, not Mitch, for the loss of the Senate. In any case, most Senators aren’t sweating the short-term consequences of Trump, there really are very few contested Senate races next year.
Mitt will be on his knees begging forgiveness pretty soon, he will probably even offer to drop the “Romney” surname like his niece did to please the Pestilent.