U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) has just become the first Republican to announce he will vote to convict President Donald Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors, on the charge of of abuse of power, the Washington Post reports.
“The president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust,” he said on the Senate floor.
“There’s no question that the president asked a foreign power to investigate his political foe,” Romney said in a statement to the Post. “That he did so for a political purpose, and that he pressured Ukraine to get them to do help or to lead in this effort. My own view is there there’s not much I can think of that would be a more egregious assault on our Constitution than trying to corrupt an election to maintain power. And that’s what the president did.”
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