Romney Delivers Another Rebuke of Trump...and the Trump Team Responds
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On March 3, 2016, just a few days before key primaries in the presidential election, Mitt Romney urged voters not to vote for one man on the ballot: Donald Trump. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican nominee for president, who is being sworn into the Senate this week, said the following of Trump:
"Here's what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud," Romney said. "His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing members of the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat."
After Trump secured the 2016 nomination and then won the general election, the two were on friendly terms for awhile. At one point reports even suggested that Trump was considering Romney for a cabinet position. Yet, it appears that something Trump did or said has again irked Romney to the point he has issued another very public, very strong rebuke of him. Here's just a taste as to why Romney thinks Trump has not "risen to the mantle of the office." He writes in the Washington Post:
The Trump presidency made a deep descent in December. The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John F.?Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president’s thoughtless claim that America has long been a “sucker” in world affairs all defined his presidency down.
Romney criticized not only Trump's foreign policy, of course, but his character as well.
Source:
Town Hall
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