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| Former Republican presidential candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and Donald Trump. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) |
VietPress USA (Jan. 1st, 2019): To start New Year of 2019 and prepare to take his office of Republican Senator for Utah on January 3rd, 2019, Mitt Romney published his essay on Washington Post on Tuesday evening to sharply criticize President Donald Trump as the U.S. Leader who caused dismay around the world.
Mitt Romney wrote: "The appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president’s thoughtless claim that America has long been a 'sucker' in world affairs all defined his presidency down.." He added that "Trump’s words and actions have caused dismay around the world."
According to Wikipedia, Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is
an American politician and businessman who is the United States Senator-elect from Utah. He previously served
as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003
to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in
the 2012 election.
Raised
in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan by his
parents, George and Lenore Romney,
he spent two-and-a-half years in France as a Mormon
missionary starting in 1966. He married Ann Davies in
1969, and they have five sons. By 1971, he had participated in the political
campaigns of both parents. Romney earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Brigham Young University (BYU) in
1971 and a joint JD–MBA from Harvard University in 1975. Romney
became a management consultant and in 1977 secured a position at Bain &
Company. Later serving as Bain's chief executive officer (CEO), he
helped lead the company out of a financial crisis. In 1984, he co-founded and
led the spin-off company Bain Capital,
a highly profitable private equity investment firm that became
one of the largest of its kind in the nation.
Active in The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) throughout his adult life,
Romney served as bishop of his ward and
later as a stake president near Boston.
After
stepping down from Bain Capital and his local leadership role in the LDS
Church, Romney ran as the Republican candidate in the 1994 U.S. Senate election in
Massachusetts. After losing to longtime incumbent Ted Kennedy,
he resumed his position at Bain Capital. Years later, a successful stint as
President and CEO of the then-struggling Salt Lake
Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics led to a re-launch of
his political career. Elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002, Romney helped
develop and later signed a health care reform law that provided
near-universal health insurance access through state-level subsidies and individual mandates to purchase insurance.
He also presided over the elimination of a projected $1.2–1.5 billion
deficit through a combination of spending cuts, increased fees and closing
corporate tax loopholes. He did not seek re-election
in 2006, instead focusing on
his campaign for the Republican nomination in the 2008 U.S.
presidential election. Though he won several primaries and caucuses,
Senator John McCain was chosen as the Republican Party's nominee.
Romney's considerable net worth, estimated in 2012 at $190–250 million,
helped finance his political campaigns prior to 2012.
Romney
won the 2012 Republican presidential
nomination, becoming the first Mormon presidential nominee of
a major party.
He was defeated by incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama in
the November 2012 general election,
losing the Electoral College by
a margin of 206–332 and the popular vote by a margin of 47%–51%.
After
re-establishing residency in Utah, Romney won the 2018 U.S. Senate election in Utah,
having defeated state representative Mike Kennedy in the Republican
primary and Salt Lake County councilwoman Jenny Wilson in the general election.
In doing so, he became only the third individual ever to be elected governor
and U.S. senator from two different states (the others being Sam Houston for Tennessee and Texas, and William Bibb for Georgia and Alabama),
and the first such person for 157 years. Romney is scheduled to take office on
January 3, 2019.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Romney excoriated Trump as a "fraud" who was “playing the American public for suckers." Trump responded that Romney had “choked like a dog” in his unsuccessful 2012 campaign against Democratic President Barack Obama.
Despite Romney’s prior criticism, after Trump won the presidency in November 2016, he briefly considered tapping Romney as secretary of state.
Trump last February endorsed Romney’s run for a Senate seat in Utah.
But in his essay, Romney suggested that "on balance, (Trump's) conduct over the past two years ... is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office."
Romney is staking out an independent position two days before he takes office on Thursday, Jana. 3rda, 2019. It is unclear whether Trump will face a serious challenge in 2020 to securing the Republican Party's presidential nomination.
Read this report from Reuters on Yahoo News at:
https://news.yahoo.com/romney-attacks-trump-saying-causes-024523430.html
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Romney attacks Trump, saying he causes dismay around the world
In a Washington Post essay published on Tuesday evening, Romney criticized a number of Trump's actions in December.
"The appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president’s thoughtless claim that America has long been a 'sucker' in world affairs all defined his presidency down," he wrote.
He added that "Trump’s words and actions have caused dismay around the world."
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Romney suggested that "on balance, (Trump's) conduct over the past two years ... is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office."
Romney is staking out an independent position two days before he takes office on Thursday. It is unclear whether Trump will face a serious challenge in 2020 to securing the Republican Party's presidential nomination.
Trump last February endorsed Romney’s run for a Senate seat in Utah.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Romney excoriated Trump as a "fraud" who was “playing the American public for suckers." Trump responded that Romney had “choked like a dog” in his unsuccessful 2012 campaign against Democratic President Barack Obama.
Despite Romney’s prior criticism, after Trump won the presidency in November 2016, he briefly considered tapping Romney as secretary of state.
In his essay on Tuesday, Romney said he "will speak out against significant statements or actions that are divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions."
Romney has strongly defended press freedom and challenged Trump's repeated attacks on some news outlets as an "enemy of the people."
"The media is essential to our Republic, to our freedom, to the cause of freedom abroad, and to our national security. It is very much our friend," Romney wrote in an essay in November. (Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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