The former press secretary for Sen. Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign claimed envy motivated the Utah Republican to vote to convict President Trump on abuse of power.
“I believe Mitt Romney is motivated by bitterness and jealously that [Trump] accomplished what he has failed to do multiple times,” Rick Gorka, who is now a communications director for the Republican National Committee, tweeted Wednesday.
“He has betrayed his Party and millions of voters,” he added.
These are the same people that hated Mitt in 2012 and they will hate him again when they are done with him. It is sad to see that Mitt has not learned the lessons from 2012. Now he has betrayed his Party and millions of voters.
— Rick Gorka (@Rick_Gorka) February 5, 2020
Trump was acquitted by the Republican-led Senate on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, with Romney being the sole senator to vote across party lines. Romney said he believed the president violated the power of his office by asking Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. He voted with Republicans to acquit Trump on the obstruction of Congress charge.
After he announced how he would vote, Romney’s niece, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, defended Trump.
“This is not the first time I’ve disagreed with Mitt, and I imagine it will not be the last. The bottom line is President Trump did nothing wrong, and the Republican Party is more united than ever behind him,” McDaniel tweeted.
“I, along with the [GOP], stand with President Trump,” she said.
