{"id":2380277,"date":"2024-12-15T12:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-defends-trump-and-asks-critics-to-give-him-a-chance-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:44:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T17:44:41","slug":"romney-defends-trump-and-asks-critics-to-give-him-a-chance-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-defends-trump-and-asks-critics-to-give-him-a-chance-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney defends Trump and asks critics to &#8216;give him a chance&#8217; &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fromney-defends-trump-and-asks-critics-to-give-him-a-chance-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2380277&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Mitt Romney \u2062(R-UT) has\u2064 defended President-elect Donald Trump in light \u200cof Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legacy-media-indicts-itself-when-they-blame-the-right-wing-media-ecosystem\/\" title=\"Legacy Media Indicts Itself When They Blame The &#039;Right-Wing Media Ecosystem&#039;\">recent electoral \u200dvictory<\/a> and his Cabinet selections. During an appearance on CNN\u2019s &#8220;state of the Union,&#8221; Romney, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump in \u2064the past, stated \u200bthat people cannot complain about Trump&#8217;s Cabinet\u200d picks sence the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-kelly-same-people-criticizing-trump-peddled-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Mike Kelly: Same People Criticizing Trump Peddled Russia Collusion Hoax\">president-elect<\/a> had indicated his choices prior to \u200bthe election. He emphasized the significance of trump&#8217;s overwhelming \u200bwin, suggesting that he should be allowed the opportunity \u200cto implement his policies once in office. Romney is set to leave the\u2063 Senate in January after serving one term representing Utah.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Romney defends Trump after &lsquo;overwhelming&rsquo; win: &lsquo;Can&rsquo;t complain&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1911038\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mitt-romney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Mitt Romney<\/a> (R-UT) is contending people &ldquo;can&rsquo;t complain&rdquo; about President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s Cabinet picks given Trump signaled he would make such picks before he was elected.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Romney, a longtime critic of the president-elect, is leaving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Senate\">Senate<\/a> in January, after one term representing Utah. He said on CNN&rsquo;s <em>State of the Union<\/em> on Sunday that since Trump won the election &ldquo;overwhelmingly,&rdquo; he should be given a chance to enact the policies he desires.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3240974\/meet-new-congress-house-senate-freshmen-119th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>MEET THE NEW CONGRESS: THE HOUSE AND SENATE FRESHMEN ELECTED TO SERVE NEXT YEAR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2727346&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=0b8d61409ad6be111502d1ff4d37b463\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump won. He won overwhelmingly. He said what he was going to do, and that&rsquo;s what he&rsquo;s doing. I mean, people are saying, &lsquo;oh, I don&rsquo;t like this appointment or this policy that he&rsquo;s talking about,&#8217;&rdquo; Romney said. &ldquo;But those are the things he said he was going to do when he ran. So you can&rsquo;t complain about someone who does what he said he was going to do.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And I agree with him on a lot of policy fronts. I disagree with him on some things. But it&rsquo;s like, OK, give him a chance to do what he said he&rsquo;s going to do and see how it works out,&rdquo; the GOP senator added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3220431\/how-elon-musk-helped-trump-back-to-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>HOW ELON MUSK HELPED WILL TRUMP BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When asked about his feelings on who Trump has selected for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Cabinet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Cabinet<\/a>, Romney said it was not who he would have selected, but he noted that he lost the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/associated-press-doubles-down-on-left-wing-rhetoric\/\" title=\"Associated Press Doubles Down on Left-Wing Rhetoric\">2012 presidential election<\/a>, while Trump has won.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, a very famous book talked about Abraham Lincoln choosing a team of rivals. This is a team of people who are very, very different, extraordinarily different backgrounds, different perspectives on issues, in some cases, I think even than the president, so an unusual collection of individuals, not the people I would have chosen,&rdquo; Romney said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But I lost. He won, all right? I would like to revisit that and win, but I didn&rsquo;t get that chance. And so these are the kind of people he wants to run. And he&rsquo;s entitled to that,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Romney also said that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Senate<\/a> should fulfill its &ldquo;responsibility&rdquo; to properly vet Trump&rsquo;s nominees.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several of Trump&rsquo;s nominees have been viewed as unorthodox, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary, Pete Hegseth for <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">defense secretary<\/a>, and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>All of Trump&rsquo;s Cabinet picks will have to be confirmed by the Senate, but with the upper chamber in Republican control, it appears most, if not all of them will be given a good chance at gaining approval.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1911038\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1911038\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romney backs Trump\u2019s Cabinet choices, says \u201ccan\u2019t complain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2380278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mitt-Romney-hhnek22.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7375,5894,5389,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2380277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-criticism","tag-politics","tag-romney","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mitt-Romney-hhnek22.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380281,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380277\/revisions\/2380281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}