Lou Dobbs likened Sen. Mitt Romney to some of history’s most notorious traitors Wednesday after the Utah Republican broke ranks with the GOP and voted to convict President Trump in the impeachment trial.
The host of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” slammed the senator during the latest episode of his Fox Business Network program after the president’s impeachment trial ended in acquittal.
“Romney is going to be associated with Judas, Brutus, Benedict Arnold forever — when he is not even a footnote in a footnote otherwise — because of his betrayal,” Mr. Dobbs said.
Mr. Romney, the former Republican presidential nominee, voted earlier Wednesday to convict Mr. Trump on one of two articles of impeachment passed in the House — abuse of power — making him the lone member of the president’s party not to clear him of both counts and effectively denying Mr. Trump the GOP’s unanimous support in his Senate trial.
“As a senator juror, I swore an oath before God to exercise impartial justice. I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who I am,” Mr. Romney said on the Senate floor before voting.
“Accordingly, the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust,” Mr. Romney said later in his floor speech. “What he did was not perfect. No, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values. Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one’s oath of office that I can imagine.”
Mr. Trump subsequently took aim at Mr. Romney from his Twitter account later Wednesday prior to seemingly referencing the senator while speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast the next morning.
“I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong,” Mr. Trump said at the annual event early Thursday.
• Andrew Blake can be reached at ablake@washingtontimes.com.
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