{"id":322181,"date":"2021-03-26T22:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T02:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=322181"},"modified":"2021-03-26T22:30:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T02:30:38","slug":"sen-mitt-romney-wins-jfk-profile-in-courage-award-for-voting-to-impeach-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-mitt-romney-wins-jfk-profile-in-courage-award-for-voting-to-impeach-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Mitt Romney Wins \u2018JFK Profile In Courage Award\u2019 For Voting To Impeach Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fsen-mitt-romney-wins-jfk-profile-in-courage-award-for-voting-to-impeach-trump%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=322181&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3894.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) was chosen to receive the 2021 John F. Kennedy Presidential Library\u2019s Profile in Courage Award for having been the only Republican to vote in favor of convicting former President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2021 Profile in Courage Award goes to Senator Mitt Romney for his vote to convict President Donald J. Trump in 2020, and his consistent and courageous defense of democracy,\u201d the JFK Library said. \u201cAs the first Senator to have ever voted to convict a President of his own party, Senator Romney\u2019s courageous stand was historic. Despite facing unrelenting criticism and public antagonism following this vote, along with threats to his physical safety and demands that he be censured or expelled from the Republican party, Romney has continued to courageously defend the fundamental principles of democratic governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Romney\u2019s commitment to our Constitution makes him a worthy successor to the Senators who inspired my father to write <em>Profiles in Courage<\/em>,\u201d said former Ambassador Caroline Kennedy. \u201cHe reminds us that our Democracy depends on the courage, conscience and character of our elected officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.2989690721649\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The JFK Library Foundation announced that U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorRomney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorRomney<\/a> (R-UT) will receive the John F. Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ProfileinCourage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ProfileinCourage<\/a> Award for his historic vote in the 2020 presidential impeachment trial, and his consistent and courageous defense of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JFK Library (@JFKLibrary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JFKLibrary\/status\/1375415762509299712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The award from the JFK Library Foundation&nbsp;is named after former President John F. Kennedy\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1957 book \u201cProfiles in Courage,\u201d most of which was written by Kennedy\u2019s speechwriter Ted Sorenson, according to Sorenson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/who-wrote-that-political-memoir-no-who-actually-wrote-it\/2014\/06\/09\/8e89ccae-f00a-11e3-9ebc-2ee6f81ed217_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2008 autobiography<\/a>. Recipients are often liberals, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who received it in 2019; former President Barack Obama, who won in 2017; or the late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who took home the prize in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Romney was the only Republican senator who voted to convict Trump during both of his impeachment trials.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-is-guilty-sen-romney-issues-statement-explaining-impeachment-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"31.785394932936\">\n<p><em>\u201cAfter careful consideration of the respective counsels\u2019 arguments, I have concluded that President Trump is guilty of the charge made by the House of Representatives,\u201d Romney began, adding that he believes Trump \u201cattempted to corrupt the election by pressuring the Secretary of State of Georgia to falsify the election results in his state,\u201d which is an allegation not covered in the impeachment article.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPresident Trump incited the insurrection against Congress by using the power of his office to summon his supporters to Washington on January 6th and urging them to march on the Capitol during the counting of electoral votes,\u201d Romney continued. \u201cHe did this despite the obvious and well known threats of violence that day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPresident Trump also violated his oath of office by failing to protect the Capitol, the Vice President, and others in the Capitol,\u201d Romney concluded. \u201cEach and every one of these conclusions compels me to support conviction.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Romney was also one of the five Republican senators to support calling in witnesses during the impeachment trial, a move that was later shelved shortly before the Senate vote. Romney and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) reportedly got into a heated back-and-forth on the Senate floor about the topic, which Romney later <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elizabethcrisp\/status\/1360658412883894273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismissed<\/a> as an argument over underwear preference.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sen-romney-pretty-sure-trump-would-win-2024-gop-nomination-in-a-landslide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sen. Romney \u2018Pretty Sure\u2019 Trump Would Win 2024 GOP Nomination \u2018In A Landslide\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) was chosen to receive the 2021 John F. Kennedy Presidential Library\u2019s Profile in Courage Award for having been the only Republican to vote in favor of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311235,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3894.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Sen. 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