Utah Newspaper Editorial Board Defends Mitt Romney's Vote to Convict Trump
A prominent Utah newspaper has published an editorial defending state Republican Senator Mitt Romney after he faced significant backlash for voting to convict President Donald Trump alongside Democrats in the Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday.
Romney became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to remove a president from the lawmaker's own political party with his vote to convict Trump for abuse of power. But the lone Republican defection was not anywhere close to enough to block the president's acquittal in the GOP-controlled chamber. A two-thirds majority vote (or 67 senators) is required to remove a president from office, and the motion failed 48-52.
After Romney, who was the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee, announced his intention to vote with Democrats on the abuse of power article of impeachment, Donald Trump Jr. and the president himself lashed out at the lawmaker. But The Salt Lake Tribune, which has the largest paid circulation of any newspaper in Utah, praised Romney's "courage."
"When it was crunch time, Romney just could not avert his eyes from the fact that this president had, without a shadow of a doubt, abused his power as commander in chief," The Tribune's editorial board wrote.
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