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Mitt Romney chastises POTUS for disparaging remarks about Maverick
2019-03-20
[Deseret News Utah] SALT LAKE CITY ‐ Sen. Mitt Romney chastised President Donald Trump on Tuesday for the latest denigrating remarks he made about the late Arizona Sen. John McCain.

"I can’t understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God," the Utah Republican tweeted.

During an Oval Office meeting with Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday, Trump was asked about his recent tweets about McCain. The president responded that he's "very unhappy" that McCain voted against repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act in 2017.

"I was never a fan of John McCain, and I never will be," Trump told reporters.

In a series of tweets over the weekend, Trump hit McCain for his handling of a dossier compiled by a former British spy on Trump's relationship with Russia leading up to the 2016 election.

"So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) 'last in his class' (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election," Trump tweeted on Sunday. "He & the Dems, working together, failed (as usual). Even the Fake News refused this garbage!"

Romney posted a nearly 500-word essay about his one-time political rival on his Senate campaign website after McCain died last August.
Posted by:Besoeker

#23  "What would Maverick do?" Of course no one will be listening...

Yes, but the squirrels on lawns everywhere will prick up their ears and tremble.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-03-20 21:14  

#22  This will become the GOPe mantra: "What would Maverick do?" Of course no one will be listening...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-03-20 20:42  

#21  @#20 now that is something to be smug about in hindsight!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-03-20 18:20  

#20  Mitt Romney. The man who got me, for the first time in my life, to not vote for the R for president.
Posted by: Glasing Untervehr4432   2019-03-20 17:42  

#19  "Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot have been dead for years -- isn't time to move on?"
Posted by: charger   2019-03-20 17:15  

#18  So one should never speak ill of the dead no matter what foul crap they pulled against their own team? Utter nonsense.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-03-20 17:08  

#17  my friend John McCain: heroic courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God,, petulant man-child

FIFY Mitt
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2019-03-20 16:00  

#16  Willard Mittens, McFail, Flake, Corker - all worthless
Posted by: Frank G   2019-03-20 14:55  

#15  Romney you are a worthless turd. Please resign and demand an actual human be appointed in your place.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-03-20 12:53  

#14  So the facts are showing he WAS responsible for a part of the fake dossier event. Dead or alive, he cause millions in wasted dollars and criminal disruption to our constitutional electoral process. A traitor is a traitor, dead or alive.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-03-20 12:35  

#13  Did somebody say Keating 5?

Here's what the Phoenix New Times had to say about it.

And here's a little rundown on McCain's aerial exploits.

I dunno. I wasn't there. But some of the things I read are not good.

And now it seems that Romney wants to take the Maverick mantle upon himself. But all that means is , when the vote is really important, you can count on Romney to screw it up the same way that McCain always did.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-03-20 12:26  

#12  Keating 5. All "good and honorable" men.

I lived with Romney as Mass governor and he was just as worthless then.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-03-20 11:43  

#11  I'm very pro-Trump, but, yeah, beating a dead scammer horse seems like a waste of effort when there are so many live targets to go after...

Yeah. Like Romney.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-03-20 11:34  

#10  Thanks for your comment #6 jpal. I voted for him in 2012 and although we wound up with Obama, in retrospect Romney would have been useless.
Posted by: warthogswife   2019-03-20 11:29  

#9  Fuck you Rumpney and fuck McStain.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-03-20 11:04  

#8  Just like with Omar and Tlaib, I don't even have to boycott Utah. Nothing I buy is made there...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-03-20 10:57  

#7  Trump didn't call him NoName. Trump's got good reasons for his disgust--how about NoName's complicity in the dirty faked dossier, Hillary and the DNC cooked up to get rid of Trump. Treasonous. The Pubs got rid of Flake and Corker and got Romney. A lose-lose deal. With Pubs like this who needs Dems?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-03-20 10:51  

#6  Let me go on record as chastising Mitt Romney for disparaging the sitting president of his own party when he should be helping him build the wall insead.
Posted by: jpal   2019-03-20 10:16  

#5  As for Mr. Romney - Brutus is an honorable man
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-03-20 09:53  

#4  John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.

This is just the sheer "2+2=5" trolling the Ruling Class loves to engage in.



Posted by: charger   2019-03-20 09:25  

#3  Envious Casca
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-03-20 09:14  

#2  I'm very pro-Trump, but, yeah, beating a dead scammer horse seems like a waste of effort when there are so many live targets to go after...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-03-20 06:31  

#1  The GOP ran Romney, Ryan, McCain and Palin and they think Palin was the mistake.
Posted by: Airandee   2019-03-20 06:16  

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