Updated 2:19 p.m. ET Wednesday
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said he will be voting to convict President Trump for abuse of power, making him the lone GOP member to cross party lines and cast a vote to remove the president from office.
“The president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust,” said Romney on the Senate floor. “What he did was not perfect. No, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values,” he said. “Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one’s oath of office that I can imagine.”
Read this story now for free
To continue reading, sign up for our newsletter and get unlimited access to WABE.org
You can select your preferences for news and local content. We will never share your email address. Learn how your newsletter sign-up will support WABE and Public Media
