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‘An insurrection incited by the president’: Mitt Romney excoriates Trump

"What happened... was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States," Romney said.

Henry Goodwin by Henry Goodwin
January 7, 2021
in World News

Mitt Romney – the Republican senator and former presidential candidate – angrily hit out at Donald Trump for inciting an “insurrection” against the government of the United States in a stinging speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday night.

Hours after he had been hounded by Trump supporters as he waited to board a flight to Washington, Romney – who was the only Republican senator to vote to impeach the president last year – took aim at Senate colleagues “who continue to support his dangerous gambit”.

The likes of Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz – who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election victory even after the shocking attack on the Capitol – “will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy”.

Romney said: “We gather due to a selfish man’s inured pride. And the outrage of supporters who he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months – and stirred to action this very morning.

“What happened… was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States.”

Watch his dramatic intervention below.

#BREAKING: Sen. Mitt Romney excoriates Trump in speech that gets interrupted by applause:

"What happened here today was an insurrection incited by the President of the United States." pic.twitter.com/9jI6K37U9d

— The Hill (@thehill) January 7, 2021

Related: Anarchy in the USA: UK press reacts as democracy put ‘under siege’

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