{"id":492284,"date":"2021-05-10T12:21:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=492284"},"modified":"2021-05-10T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:21:21","slug":"sen-mitt-romney-censured-for-twice-voting-to-remove-trump-from-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-mitt-romney-censured-for-twice-voting-to-remove-trump-from-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Mitt Romney Censured For Twice Voting To Remove Trump From Office"},"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\">24<\/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-censured-for-twice-voting-to-remove-trump-from-office%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=492284&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\/05\/mitt-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) has been censured by a county in Utah as punishment for his two votes to convict former President Donald Trump on articles of impeachment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Weber County\u2019s vote on Saturday follows another statewide party vote last week in which Romney narrowly escaped censure at a GOP convention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cThe Weber County Republican Convention censures Mitt Romney for his votes to convict President Trump\u00a0in two U.S.\u00a0Senate impeachment trials,\u201d the resolution censuring Romney reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The resolution also says the impeachment proceedings against Trump \u201cdenied the President due process, allowed falsified evidence, did not provide adequate time for an investigation, and did not follow the U.S. Constitution which states a President may only be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The county GOP approved the resolution in a convention by a vote of 116-97.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Republican delegates at a statewide convention booed Romney over his two impeachment votes, with some calling him a \u201ctraitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romney appeared to address his party\u2019s 2021 state convention, but the boos rained down on him just as he walked onto the stage. The 2012 presidential loser quickly turned the tables on his detractors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t you embarrassed?\u201d Romney said as he stood on the stage at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, The Salt Lake Tribune <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2021\/05\/01\/mitt-romney-booed-raucous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Romney, who has repeatedly clashed with Trump, went on to defend himself to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a man who says what he means, and you know I was not a fan of our last president\u2019s character issues,\u201d said Romney, the only Republican senator to vote to convict Trump in his first impeachment trial and one of seven to vote to convict after a second impeachment trial for the Capitol breach on January 6.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates were unimpressed, with some shouting \u201ctraitor\u201d and \u201ccommunist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can boo all you like,\u201d Romney fired back. \u201cI\u2019ve been a Republican all of my life. My dad was the governor of Michigan and I was the Republican nominee for president in 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yeah, I understand that I have a few folks that don\u2019t like me terribly much and I\u2019m sorry about that. But I express my mind as I believe is right and I follow my conscience as I believe is right,\u201d\u00a0 Romney added.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the convention, delegates moved to censure Romney for his actions, but the effort narrowly failed, with a final vote on the motion with 798 for and 711 against.<\/p>\n<p>One convention delegate, Salt Lake County delegate Emily de Azavedo Brown, said they delivered a message to Romney. \u201cIf the point of all this is to let Mitt Romney know we\u2019re displeased with him, trust me, he knows,\u201d he said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9533985\/Senator-Mitt-Romney-BOOED-delegates-Utah-GOP-convention-voting-impeach-Trump.html\">according<\/a> to The Daily Mail. \u201cLet\u2019s not turn this into a Trump or no Trump thing. Are we a party of principle or a party of a person?\u201d<\/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) has been censured by a county in Utah as punishment for his two votes to convict former President Donald Trump on articles of impeachment.Weber County\u2019s vote &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277674,"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\/05\/mitt-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Sen. 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