Romney To Vote To Convict Trump, Sole GOP Senator To Break On Impeachment

President Trump is expected to be acquitted by the Senate on Wednesday.

Alex Brandon / AP

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.”