Trump has long touted a Republican Party that uniformly had his back. Mitt Romney ruptured that narrative yesterday by voting guilty on impeachment.
President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated impeachment acquittal delivered a last-minute twist that robbed him of a long-sought talking point: absolute Republican unity in the face of Democrats trying to usurp the presidency.White House aides and allies were caught off-guard mid-afternoon when Republican Sen. Mitt Romney announced he would vote alongside Democrats to find the president guilty on one charge against him.
He had been going back and forth with aides on the timing and format of a post-acquittal statement.
Trump’s immediate response was unusually restrained: He intended to speak about the impeachment “hoax” on Thursday at noon, buying the White House more time to plan his remarks. Trump allies were quick to cast Romney’s vote as outside of the norms of the Republican Party, or the byproduct of long-standing feud between the president and the 2012 Republican nominee for president who Trump once considered for a Cabinet post.
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