Mitt Romney’s Noisy Arrival in Trump’s Washington
The incoming senator from Utah never wanted to define himself by his relationship with Trump. But with his new op-ed, Romney has signaled that a confrontation with the president is inevitable.
As Mitt Romney prepares to join the U.S. Senate on Thursday, this much at least seems clear: He’s not worried about being friends with Donald Trump.
In a sharply critical op-ed published Tuesday night in The Washington Post—notably, one of the president’s least favorite news outlets—Romney took aim at what he considers to be the president’s defective moral character:
On balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle
