Sen. Bernie Sanders praised Sen. Mitt Romney after he voted to remove President Trump from office.
“I’m tired of commenting on Trump’s remarks. I really am. I think he lies all the time, and it’s very hard for me to understand where he is coming from,” the Vermont independent said Thursday on CNN regarding the president condemning those who use faith to attack him. “He is a bully. He says terrible things. I suppose that he is attacking Mitt Romney.”
“I don’t know Mitt Romney terribly well. I know him, but he is a man of faith. He is a Mormon, and to attack people because they stand up to him is what this person’s mind is about. He thinks he is above the law. He thinks he’s God’s gift to the human race, and anybody who disagrees with him is some terrible human being, and he will deal with those people, and sometimes, [in] the most savage ways, destroy people’s lives. That’s all. I think Mitt Romney showed a great deal of courage, and I wish that there were other Republicans who had the same sense of decency that he did,” Sanders added.
Romney, 72, voted “guilty” on one of the two articles of impeachment against Trump. The Utah Republican was the only Republican to vote against the president.
