Keith Olbermann is one of Mitt Romney’s worst people in the world.
In a statement Tuesday morning over Twitter, the Utah Republican senator outlined his “thoughts on the current state of our politics.”
Romney, the only Republican senator to back impeachment and removal of President Trump in February said in a statement that he is troubled by the current political discourse.
“It has moved away from spirited debate to a vile, vituperative, hate-filled morass that is unbecoming any free nation — let alone the birthplace of modern democracy,” Romney said about Trump’s negative characterizations of California Sen. Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“The President calls the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate ‘a monster;’ he repeatedly labels the Speaker of the House ‘crazy;’ he calls for the Justice Department to put the prior president in jail; he attacks the Governor of Michigan on the very day a plot is discovered to kidnap her,” Romney continued.
Romney then trained his attention on Democrats and left-wing media figures.
“Democrats launch blistering attacks of their own — though their presidential nominee refuses to stoop as low as others. Pelosi tears up the President’s State of the Union speech on national television. Keith Olbermann calls the president a ‘terrorist.’ Media on the left and right amplify all of it.”
Romney’s words come after former sportscaster and left-wing polemic Olbermann announced he was leaving ESPN to start an independent YouTube channel earlier this month. In his premier episode, Olbermann called for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrrett to be “prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society.”
“Trump can be and must be expunged. The hate he has triggered, the Pandora’s Box he has opened, they will not be so easily destroyed. So, let us brace ourselves. The task is twofold,” said Olbermann, who peaked politically during the latter years of President George W. Bush’s time in office, when he lacerated the commander-in-chief nightly on his MSNBC show.
“The terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box and then he and his enablers and his supporters and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees, and the William Barrs, and the Sean Hannitys, and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Giulianis, and the Kyle Rittenhouses, and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted, and convicted, and removed from our society while we try and rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has nearly destroyed by turning it over to a virus.”
Since being elected to the Senate in 2018, Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, has been a critic of the president. In February, Romney voted to convict Trump on abuse of power charges following his impeachment in the House.
