His. Mitt Romney
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“The conclusion I reached about the final verdict will not surprise anyone who has read my reasoning in the first trial of dismissal: I consider an attempt to corrupt an election to stay in power to be one of the most reprehensible acts that it can make an incumbent president. ”wrote Romney, the only Republican senator who voted to condemn Trump in the two ouster processes.
“The second removal resulted from the president’s continued effort to do just that. The president’s conduct was an unprecedented violation of his oath of office and public confidence, “he added.
Romney said the former president “tried to break” a line that “separates our democratic republic from an autocracy: it is a free and fair election and the peaceful transfer of power that follows it.”
“What he tried is what the founders feared most. That’s why they invested Congress with the power to dismiss,” Romney wrote. “Consequently, I voted to condemn President Trump.”
Romney was one of seven Republican senators who joined the 50 Democratic senators in voting to condemn Trump on Saturday. Still, the chamber failed to reach the two-thirds majority needed to find the former president guilty.
Romney’s vote came as no surprise, as his comments criticized Trump and he twice voted for the trial to be constitutional. However, he has done so ever since confronted reaction of his state conservatives, as well as other House and Senate Republicans who voted against Trump.
Romney said “people of conscience came to different conclusions” about Trump, but that the accusation that the 2020 election was plagued by widespread election fraud is “a falsehood that divides the nation today like no other.”
“Like you, I hear many calls for unity. It is clear that asking for unity and appeasing at the same time the great lie of a stolen election is a fraud, “he wrote.” It is the lie that caused the division. It is in the service of this lie that a crowd invaded the Capitol on the 6th January ”.
The former Republican presidential candidate then asked his fellow senators to claim that Biden won the 2020 presidential election, saying he will begin the path to healing the nation.
“Now that the trial for dismissal is over, it is up to each of us to state what we all know: President Biden won the election by the legitimate vote of the American people, ”he wrote. “The division in the United States will only begin to heal in the light of this truth, a truth that each of us must now affirm in this chamber.”