Romney 'sickened' by Trump's behavior in Mueller report

Posted by mminnick 4 years, 11 months ago to News
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I can't believe the stupidity being uttered by Sen Romney. He was a pathetic presidential candidate and appears to be heading toward being a worse senator.
"Sickened" by the lawbreaking of the president? What about the law breaking of Hillary, Comey, Brennen, Clapper, Strzok et al? I suppose that was just a friendly framing/trashing of the Republican candidate then President; all in fun by a group of Good 'ol boys.
He needs to get his out on straight and look at what the Dems are really doing and support the president or at least keep his mouth shut.
SOURCE URL: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/439765-romney-sickened-by-trumps-behavior-in-mueller-report


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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 4 years, 11 months ago
    Romney have proven and reproven himself an establishment RINO. We dodged a bullet.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 4 years, 11 months ago
      When me dino voted for Mitt for being a "lesser of two evils" against a Muslim so-called socialist wannabe commie crook, I did not fully know as I do now what a rancid RINO he is.
      If I had, I may have just stayed at home like so many other Republicans had. And maybe me into ad hominems shoulda been calling Mitt a Mutt instead.
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      • Posted by exceller 4 years, 11 months ago
        I have exactly the same sentiment, Dino.

        Had I known what a slime Romney was, there is no way I would have voted for him.

        Although not voting would have meant one more for the communist Muslim.
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    • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 11 months ago
      I'd be careful in judging Romney too harshly, because from a policy standpoint, he was and remains a conservative. Romney made no accusations of collusion or obstruction - merely that there were a lot of revelations in the Mueller Report about Trump's personal integrity which he found disgusting. And he's not wrong there. Ben Shapiro came to the same conclusions: no illegal behavior on Trump's part, but certainly some questionable ethical standards: https://www.dailywire.com/news/46163/...
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      • Posted by Lucky 4 years, 11 months ago
        I am unconvinced re revelations, accusations perhaps?
        Nothing illegal was found but the antagonism was so strong that making and repeating nasty accusations was something that could be got away with.
        The rumors form no charge so effective rebuttal is not possible.
        The use of such character denigration techniques is worse than the accusations.
        With free speech this stuff is best left to the gutter press, it has no place in a formal inquiry.
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      • Posted by JuliBMe 4 years, 11 months ago
        I'll take Trump's "disgusting" integrity over ANY leftist. Also, after his stated opinion that the WAPO's "story" about Judge Roy Moore's early courtships in the 80s and 90s was "credible", I will take Trump's integrity over Ben Shapiro's, too. Like Ann Coulter who, it appears, did a nice paid job being a "pied piper" for HRC, Shapiro also appears to be on some nefarious payrolls.
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        • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 11 months ago
          I agree that I'd take Trump over a leftist. On personal morality, however, Trump is pretty devoid, having had numerous affairs, three wives, etc. so I'm going to disagree with you there. It's the same reason that I would take Cruz over Newt.

          I'd be interested in the information about Shapiro. He's always struck me as a pretty intelligent and morally-grounded guy.

          Coulter is a mystery to me. Read some of her earlier books and was very impressed by the research she did. Not quite sure why she fell out of favor but she did.
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          • Posted by JuliBMe 4 years, 11 months ago
            You only need to Google Shapiro and "Judge Roy Moore" to see how he "handled" the debunked accusations against Moore by Gloria Allred's DAUGHTER Lisa Booth, who forged the "evidence", and the women who've now conveniently disappeared.

            The jury is still out on Coulter. However, she was a VERY early Trump supporter even braving leftist laughter in her face on TV. Now? This so-called "lawyer" is flaying Trump because he isn't acting like a dictator FORCING legislation on changing immigration law and going down there himself to oversee and FORCE the wall to be built. Such an interesting flip-plop, no? HRC's "Pied Piper" strategy was discussed in the Podesta emails.

            Both my mother and father married three times. This type of behavior has been inculcated into our society AT LEAST since the 1960s. Add the fact that POTUS is rich and famous, the odds go up exponentially that pressures on his marriages would be much more destructive. Being rich and famous NATURALLY ensures a man will be a womanizer. Who but a Saint would be able to ALWAYS resist women throwing themselves at him? To think that this really has anything other than a minuscule effect on his presidential job integrity is just, in my opinion, bunk.

            The Bush "P" recording was TALK. And, I think I would bet serious money that nothing happened between Trump and Stormy. She wrote a letter to that effect then backtracked obliquely on a talk show because that's what they wanted to hear. And, has ANYONE seen his WIFE??? LOL. As a rich and famous man, POTUS is a TARGET to blackmailers and golddiggers. I'm sure he had a fund set aside to pay off the more persistent ones for the price of an NDA. Much easier, faster, and cheaper than fighting.

            We didn't hire a SAINT. However, the MAN we ended up getting has MANY more positive attributes than ANY of us thought we were getting in 2016. He's going to go down in history as the greatest president since Lincoln if not further back in history. I'd bet money on that, too.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 4 years, 11 months ago
    I am extremely weary of hearing from these 'leftist loonies' regarding how they 'feel'. As Rhett Butler would have said to Miss Scarlett, 'Quite frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!'
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    • Posted by $ Suzanne43 4 years, 11 months ago
      Yes, who cares what he thinks.
      Which brings to mind the old nursery rhyme, Rub a dub dub three men in a tub...Mitt Romney, Jeff Flake, and Bill Kristol, let's put them out to sea. No one would miss them.
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      • Posted by term2 4 years, 11 months ago
        McCain is dead, but he belongs there too. He was a whining "oh poor me" person who played his POW status to the hilt to get people to feel sorry for him.
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        • Posted by $ Suzanne43 4 years, 11 months ago
          He certainly did. He was a mean, nasty, and vindictive jerk. I could call him some other not very nice adjectives, but I respect The Gulch too much to do that. Besides I reserve use of those words for my husband when I am angry with him.
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          • Posted by term2 4 years, 11 months ago
            I think Trump had his number and called him out for his whining by saying "I prefer soldiers who didnt get captured"/ Thats why McCain hated Trump
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            • Posted by $ 25n56il4 4 years, 11 months ago
              Why didn't McCain try to escape? My veteran was captured in Korea and he escaped after 3 days. He said the food was lousy and he didn't like it. He trusted his compass and returned to his unit! He told me it wasn't like in the movies, when you gather a crowd to go with you. You just trust your instincts and do it yourself!
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              • Posted by term2 4 years, 11 months ago
                As I understand it, the enemy agreed to let him go free because his father was some sort of hero, but MCain refused the offer and decided to stay. He was definitely a nut case.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 4 years, 11 months ago
    I think Romney dreams of inheriting the McCain mantle as a "maverick" opposition within the GOP, now that it's pretty much been reshaped by Trump. As the late senator would have told him, it gets lonely when your only "friends" are a President-hating media.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 4 years, 11 months ago
    I noticed the article doesn't cite any specific examples of exactly what "sickened" Romney. There were regurgitations of the typical Neo Communist blanket whining about "dishonesty" and "misdirection", but nothing cited as an example of such behavior. Romney is just another deep state loser that deserves to choke on tar-n-feather soup. At this point it sickens me to remember I actually wasted a vote on that creep. I should have stayed home that day.

    Your lead in paragraph, mminnick, sums it up well.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 4 years, 11 months ago
    Did anyone ever read 'Three Men in a Boat' about Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin? Very interesting read.
    My mother used to say, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it!' This could happen and a lot of folks will wonder 'what happened'.
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  • Posted by exceller 4 years, 11 months ago
    "Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee lashed out at Sen. Mitt Romney after the Utah Republican said he was “sickened” by the level of dishonesty from President Trump’s administration in response to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

    “Know what makes me sick, Mitt? Not how disingenuous you were to take @realDonaldTrump $$ and then 4 yrs later jealously trash him & then love him again when you begged to be Sec of State, but makes me sick that you got GOP nomination and could have been @POTUS," Huckabee tweeted Friday.
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    • Posted by $ Suzanne43 4 years, 11 months ago
      Now that McCain is gone, he has taken over as the leader of the swamp.
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      • Posted by exceller 4 years, 11 months ago
        Yes, it is an enviable position to be the jackass of the GOP.

        No wonder Romney aspired to qualify upon the passing of the "tortured one".

        And to think that I voted for this idiot!

        Never liked his wooden personality but having no other choice but Hussein, Romney was the default.

        Despite his disastrous performance in the last debate when he passed opportunities to nail Hussein, never mentioning Benghazi which was fresh out of the oven.

        We were told he "acted presidential". My foot, he has never been presidential. Even a nitwit like Hussein beat him.
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        • Posted by $ Suzanne43 4 years, 11 months ago
          As Rush so aptly put it these swamp dwelling Republicans are seventy-five years out of date. They think that they are acting like gentlemen and presidential when all they are doing is acting like the idiots and losers that they are.
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    • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 11 months ago
      Huckabee is directly responsible for McCain getting the 2008 bid for President and thus Obama getting elected President.

      At the critical point in the 2008 Republican Primary, there were four candidates remaining: John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Guiliani, and Mitt Romney. Only Romney polled well nationally. Huckabee was a Christian evangelist and only appealed to the Deep South. Guiliani only polled well in his home state of New York - as well as other progressive bastions such as California. McCain polled second to Romney except in his home state.

      Guiliani - seeing that he wasn't going anywhere - dropped out of the running. As he and McCain were the "centrists" running, that gave most of Guiliani's voters to him - pushing him over the top of Romney. Huckabee should have bowed out months prior but couldn't stand the thought of a Mormon running for President so he stayed in to split the conservative portion of the Republican vote and prevent Romney from winning the Primary - which in a head-to-head with McCain he (Romney) would have won handily.

      I respect his daughter, Sarah, but Huckabee is a political hack.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 4 years, 11 months ago
    So, what were his comments about FBI Investigators with HORRENDOUS bias against Trump?

    Any comments about HRC and her covered up criminality.

    They have sooo much dirt on him. AND HE GOT BAILED OUT!

    If you go back, he had a LARGE part of his money in BONDS for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

    Then HE PUSHED to make sure they were treated as they they were GSE (Government Secured Entities). Because he would have lost ALL his investments.

    So, I guess he PUCKERED up nicely and owes people big time!
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  • Posted by $ TomB666 4 years, 11 months ago
    When my grandson told me he voted for Obama "because he wasn't Romney" I just shook my head. Now it all makes sense. How could any political party nominate such a moron to be president :-(
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  • Posted by JohnJMulhall 4 years, 11 months ago
    Well you have to keep in mind that Romney is a democrat carpet-bagger from Mass, not a 'real' Republican... At best, he is a swamp-dwelling, 'I need to be loved' RINO. Too bad the good people of Utah voted for him on the pretext that he was an 'honest' man.
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    • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 11 months ago
      Actually, Romney is about as honest as they come - especially in politics. And he hails from Michigan first - where his father was the Governor and also ran for President. If you look at his original healthcare plan - not what the Massachusetts Dems turned it into when he left, it was pretty good - being recommended by the Heritage Foundation.

      Mitt gets a lot of attention by the media because he has no great love for Trump, but until he actually votes for something to make him a RINO, don't prejudge him. Personally, I've seen pictures the media wouldn't publish and which he didn't publicize of he and his boys out helping much out houses after a hurricane - at his expense. He also sponsored a search for one of his employee's missing daughters who had gone missing - again at his personal expense. People like to villify him because he isn't a Trump lover, but if you look at his actual record of helping people personally - not as a politician - the guy is pretty remarkable. And unlike John Edwards, he hasn't dumped his wife just because she has a critical, long-term illness. Yes, he has a political axe to grind when it comes to Trump. And that's where this criticism is coming from.
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      • Posted by JohnJMulhall 4 years, 11 months ago
        With his history in democrat-controlled Mass, I was not happy with his politics. When he ran for President, he kept looking like "...a deer in the head-lights..." and was ill-prepared to handle what I am sure he knew was a lying sack of democrat in the person of B. Hussein Obama, and he was (politely) inept. He did not deal with the policies BHO DIDN'T espouse and the vapid "Hope and Change" that BHO did... 'Gee, Barry, it sure looks to me like you want to turn this capitalist nation into a socialist one' etc. etc.
        You claim he is honest in his personal life, but the dems sure beat him up over the Olympics. If he is pissy over Trump's 'worldly' love life, he really ought to get over it, because the people he has chosen to support (dems) have a long history of Harvey Weinstein behavior (and worse).
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        • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 11 months ago
          "With his history in democrat-controlled Mass, I was not happy with his politics."

          Can you be more specific? I never lived in the East but would like more information. From everything I heard, he was trying to negotiate being a Red Governor in a very Blue state.

          "When he ran for President..."

          I'm not arguing that he performed well in the primaries against Barack Obama. His meltdown in the second debate was more than just a head-scratcher after his total dominance in the first one. And he still polled well in the final elections. If you take into account the election fraud going on, it was a much closer race than many believe.

          "You claim he is honest in his personal life, but the dems sure beat him up over the Olympics."

          They tried and failed. He was brought in after the Olympic committee had corrupted things. He cleaned things up, got them organized - including highway improvements (not a small feat) - and they were a successful event. It should be also noted what ridiculous and far-fetched stories they had to invent about Romney during the election campaign to try to make him look bad. One was the dog on the roof thing and the other was an invented story about him cutting the hair of someone in high school. That was the best they could do because the guy is squeaky clean.

          All I'm pointing out is that it is pretty easy to attach a bad name to someone because of the media, yet the media lie all the time. Don't believe the hype. Until Romney starts voting with the Democrats, this is all hype and no substance.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 4 years, 11 months ago
    I don't understand what Senator Romeny is saying because I have not followed it, but it has nothing to do with what other politicians are doing. More than one politician breaking the law makes it worse, not better.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 11 months ago
    Read what Romney actually said. Romney didn't accuse the President of collusion or even obstruction. What he pointed out was the moral issues that have always been part and parcel of Donald Trump. And there was plenty there in the Mueller Report - stuff that wasn't illegal, just immoral. Ben Shapiro points out exactly the same things in his analysis of the Mueller Report: https://www.dailywire.com/news/46163/...

    Trump isn't a saint. That doesn't mean he hasn't done positive things for this country or that he should be impeached. (And it is that kind of sentiment that we should be looking out for of any Republican.)

    What I thought was funny was how many reporters were now willing to acknowledge that they mocked Romney for his statements that Russia was still the biggest threat to the United States (during the 2012 campaign against Obama).
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    • Posted by 4 years, 11 months ago
      Not just his statements about Russia. Now anything his says that has the slightest hint of anti-Trump about it is considered news worthy and of great value. If he stops saying anti-Trump things the MSM will revert to being against him in all aspects.
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      • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 11 months ago
        The lamestream media is always going to be anti-Trump. That's a given. And yes, they will turn on anyone they once venerated as soon as it fits their narrative to do so. John McCain is the classic example of this: he was lauded during the Primaries but as soon as he hit the Generals they piled on him like a rugby team.

        That being said, Romney's criticism of Trump was well-founded in Trump's base moral character. The reason the media can't run with that narrative successfully is that it is a completely hypocritical standpoint for them to take - and they know it. I expect that Romney is going to be an independent mind like fellow colleagues Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz - who have all bucked this President on specific policy items they took issue with. But you also won't find any of them agitating for Impeachment, either. A policy dispute or criticism of personal character does not rise to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors". The media is trying to "trump" this up (pun intended) to try to drive their leftist narrative and we shouldn't fall prey to it.
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