Mitt Romney has been on an absolute tear this week, ripping into two of his most infamous Republican colleagues.
After ex-president Donald Trump was found guilty of sexual abuse and defamation on Tuesday, Romney was asked by CNN about the jury’s $5 million verdict.
He did not hold back.
“I hope the jury of the American people reach the same conclusion about Donald Trump,” he said. “He just is not suited to be president of the United States and to be the person who we hold up to our children and the world as the leader of the free world.”
The 2012 GOP nominee for president continued, “At some point when the people who work with you, your cabinet secretaries, and juries conclude that you’ve done something severely wrong, it’s time for us to recognize that the great majority of those who’ve worked with him are right and he’s wrong.”
Sadly, Republican voters don’t seem to share Romney’s sentiment on this one. Trump is currently the clear frontrunner for the GOP nomination for president in next year’s election.
But Romney’s criticism of members from his own party didn’t stop there.
Yesterday, he was asked his thoughts on New York Rep. George Santos’ recent indictment and, once again, he unleashed.
“He has demonstrated by his untruthfulness that he should not be in the United States Congress — perhaps should not even be on the public streets,” he said.
Santos pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal counts in federal court yesterday, including seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.
“It’s a distraction and it’s a punchline for comment regarding the Republican Party that we don’t need,” Romney added.
Of course, this is hardly the first time he’s expressed hostility toward the 34-year-old former drag queen/freshman congressman. At the State of the Union address earlier this year, he was caught on camera confronting Santos by saying, “You don’t belong here.”
He later criticized Santos sitting in the front aisle and “trying to shake hands” with President Biden, saying it wasn’t appropriate “given the fact that he’s under ethics investigation.”
“He should be sitting in the back row and staying quiet instead of parading in front of the president and people coming into the room,” Romney said.
If convicted, Santos faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, according to the Justice Department.
Related*
Hmm. Why does George Santos’ response to his latest legal calamity sound so familiar?
And Santos may regret one of his older tweets.
ShaverC
What does “can’t even” mean? Can’t even what?
DBMC
It’s slang that you would know if you were gay and American.
ShaverC
DBMC, Iz not make sense comrade. I can’t even with these kids these days.
ZzBomb
It’s a pretty common phrase in American English. Pretty “sus” you don’t know that, comrad.
abfab
Douchebag.
dbmcvey
Thanks for admitting you’re not and Amercian gay person.
Diplomat
LoL omg
correctio
maybe the fact that ShaverC doesn’t know what “can’t even” means, means he’s a crypto-facist…
ShaverC
LOL. Oh Mah Gahd. I can’t EVEN with you all. Y’all got your sneaky snoopers out and got me.
And I’m actually shocked I have to add this but I think it’s desperately needed with this group: I am joking.
dbmcvey
And now that you know what it means you’ll be using it all the time. Too late!
ShaverC
dbmcvey, It doesn’t mean anything. “I can’t even…” there needs to be an ending. I don’t care if people are trying to make it happen. It’s not fetch.
dbmcvey
Suddenly you’re an expert. When you said you didn’t know what it means were you lying?
Mary Jane
If Romney has been elected in 2012, we wouldn’t have had Trump as an ex.
correctio
yeah, too bad we had Obama for a second term? is that what you are saying? jeez, people like me get accused of being GOP TROLLS on here all the time, but then queerty runs a positive article about the literal 2012 GOP candidate, who is still a major and powerful REPUBLICAN senator, and no one has anything mean to say. riddle me that
Mitt Romney’s politics are horrible, his career before politics was horrible, the Mormon church has caused no end of pain for gay men
dbmcvey
We would have had terrible Romney. Obama was a great President and we had Trump because Republicans went nuts.
Openminded
I hope someone asks Mitt his feelings on DeSantis soon so that we know where he stands with that piece of trash. With his new found disdain for Trump, I suspect he’s laying the foundation for running himself or on someone’s (DeSantis) ticket. I’m conservative, but none of the 3- politicians listed in this story will ever get my vote. The GOP has to wake up or there will be a huge split in the party soon. Contrary to what many vocal posters here claim, there are actually many good conservatives out there. Sadly, right now, there are just more mind numbed Trump zombies giving the party a bad rep.
correctio
good how? it’s a fundamentally cruel worldview
Kangol2
There are some decent Republicans, but they are mostly in opposition to the general trends of the MAGA Don the Con cult the GQP has become. Charlie Baker and Larry Hogan would both be decent presidential contenders but neither has a chance with today’s GQP. They are far too reasonable, not rabidly anti-LGBTQ or Christian nationalist wannabes, bipartisan when need be, etc., unlike DeFascist or that psycho ex-president Don the Con. And neither is a Don the Con lackey like Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, etc. Very slim pickings for the conservative crew these days.
dbmcvey
@Kangol
They’ve shown themselves to be completely ineffective. They are completely in the wilderness, Republicans these days aren’t interested in being reasonable, they just want to piss off the libs.
dbmcvey
I admire Mitt for standing up to Trump as much as he did, but that’s all.
correctio
agreed. gotta way the good against the bad, and in Mitt’s case, the bad outweighs the good. still, doesn’t mean there isn’t good
Kangol2
Mittens does show some opposition to the treasonous psychopath Don the Con, but let’s not ever forget that Romney groveled before Don the Con for a job in 2016, only to be humiliated by that piece of sh!t. It seems to have woken him up somewhat. He’s still the candidate of the 1% but at least he has some semblance of a soul and conviction. I still wouldn’t vote for him, though!
dbmcvey
Absolutely! I think he may be standing up to that man because it’s his only choice, and despite voting for him the Big Orange has never been really popular in Utah.