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He Who Must Not Be Named: Trump Invites Every GOP Senator To Help On Economy Group Except Mitt Romney

440px-Mitt_Romney_official_US_Senate_portraitPresident Trump on Thursday called on every GOP senator to join a congressional group to advise him on reopening the economy except one: Sen. Mitt Romney.  Romney, of course, voted in favor of one of the articles for impeachment.  While I disagree with that vote, I still view Romney as an honorable person who cast a vote in good-faith.  One would hope that Trump could move beyond the impeachment for the benefit and unity of the nation, particularly during a pandemic.

The other senators were asked to participate on the “Opening Up America Again Congressional Group.”  One would think that Romney, a highly successful businessman, would be highly sought after for such a group.

The White House announced that “The dialogue between the President, senior Administration officials, and the bipartisan group of Members of Congress also included a range of topics, namely the need for additional funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, the international and domestic supply chains, ways to energize the economy, surprise medical billing, clarifying the difference between essential and non-essential workers, mental health, and relief for small businesses.”

Romney has not only been the Republican presidential nominee, U.S. Senator, and a Governor of a major state, he was also co-founder of Bain Capital a private equity investment firm.  That résumé on business and politics is virtually unrivaled in the Senate.  More importantly, he is the representative of the people of Utah who deserve to have his voice heard for the benefit of their state. The only reason that he was not included was retaliation for casting his vote on impeachment.

If these reports are true (and there has been no contradiction from the White House), the exclusion of Romney was petty and petulant.

 

256 thoughts on “He Who Must Not Be Named: Trump Invites Every GOP Senator To Help On Economy Group Except Mitt Romney”

  1. I might have agreed with you if Romney hadn’t actually made the comment after the impeachment vote that he expected consequences. I don’t expect Romney to cooperate much and he should be treated as a Democrat for all intents and purposes when having group meetings that are not mandatory and the GOP are the only ones getting an invitation. It isn’t Trump who is being small. It’s Romney. If his vote was all done in good faith I think he would have voted no on both articles because that’s how much he has come to dislike the President and we all can guess why. He didn’t get the job he wanted. Period.

  2. “While I disagree with that vote, I still view Romney as an honorable person who cast a vote in good-faith.” That’s simply the denial of the facts that Romney himself has laid before you.

    “One would hope that Trump could move beyond the impeachment for the benefit and unity of the nation, particularly during a pandemic.” Nope. Allowing them to get away with a fraudulent impeachment will encourage future shenanigans. This is why nothing ever changes in DC. Pelosi and and Schiff and Nadler should be shunned. Also, Trump and his team have spanked the virus (which was nothing more than a slightly more deadly flu) without having to kowtow to the evil actors who perpetrated the fake impeachment.

  3. As an Utahan, it is quite pleasing that he is not part of the group. Mittens would use it as an opportunity to grandstand and back stab, which would not have been productive. Mittens the vile chameleon carpetbagger can stew in his own juices over his horrible choices.

  4. So the take from Trump supporters is that Romney is a idiot and not worth the Dear Leader’s time right? So that must mean that they voted for Obama in 2012. Or write in Ron Paul. Or they didn’t vote at all, and then had a fit when Obama was elected. Yeah, that sounds right don’t it?

    1. So, The President of the United States is supposed to just bow, forgive, and ‘move-on’ when he’s accused of make believe charges from the Democrats? I suppose the author and peanut gallery here believe the Steele Dossier was ‘ironclad’? Of course you do. No. Here is reality, friends. The voters in Utah see how their ‘Representative’ is using their trust and their voice to settle a score and feed into Democrat talking points about this President. They have a simple choice come election day. Do they allow it to continue and let their voice and their representation be shut out of major decision-making processes? Or do they not allow it.

      1. Make believe charges? Trumputin was impeached. And you just sit there and hold your breath waiting for Utah to get rid of Romney….Please.

        1. FishWings – Make believe charges indeed!!!! Trumpkins was acquited!!!

          1. Paul, not everyone has the ability to separate truth from fiction.

            When I fish in a specific area I always release the fish but there is one fish that never learns and goes for the hook each time.

                1. History will record that he was impeached. Why can’t Trump supporters accept fact. History also will not be kind of the republican party that said they didn’t want or need evidence or witnesses.

                  1. History is written by the victors. But also rewritten by the living

                    Historically, Luc Montaigner, the famous virologist, won the Nobel prize with Gallo, for discovering the HIV virus which caused aids

                    Today he is ignored, but look what he says this past week: sars-cov-2 was lab made, he’s convinced of it, based on his examination of genome

                    https://nationandstate.com/2020/04/17/covid-19-is-a-man-made-virus-hiv-discoverer-says-could-only-have-been-created-in-a-lab/

      2. Liberal, the WB compliant was fully confirmed and new ones added during the House hearings. The Senate hering was the only one in our history where witnesses were not allowed, and that was while a 1st person witness was available who had not appeared at the House hearings.

        You are apparently ignorant of the facts surrounding Trump’s extortion attempt using funds allocated by Congress to benefit his own campaign. Watching only Fox and other right wing sources seems to do that as many of the posters here were similarly ignorant of those facts.

        1. As ever, the term ‘fact’ does not mean what you fancy it means.

    2. What are you talking about? You sound schizophrenic. All over the place about who people voted for. Guess what, “FishWings” I didn’t vote for Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, MadMax, Adam Schiff and their cavalcade of Democrat bilkers to be on a permanent NeverTrump crusade. Their constituents surely would like the legislators to legislate instead of playing Nancy Drew against a sitting President. The partisanship is so glaringly out in the open you couldn’t cut it with a Carving knife on Thanksgiving day.

    3. Romney is an idiot and not worth Trump’s time because all Romney wants is to destroy Trump. This is obvious. It’s funny to see how quick lefties are to praise any Republican that wants Trump destroyed. It doesn’t matter if they had previously called that same Republican a nazi and an idiot.

      I voted for Obama in 2008, but didn’t vote in 2012. I was permanently done with the Dems after just a few months of Obama. I probably should have voted for Ron Paul in 2012, but didn’t. I don’t remember election night 2012 because I simply didn’t care…no fits, no tears, no reaction at all. The only time I have ever seen fits and tears after an election was when Hillary lost. I would not have voted in 2016 as well, but Trump’s anti-establishment campaign brought me out.

      The people who don’t usually vote are what’s propelling Trump. That’s the lesson the left has yet to learn: globalism is out, neo-liberalism is out. America’s citizens first is the order of the day.

      1. i agree ivan romney is not good

        and yet it does look petty and foolish.

        trump needs to grow out of some of his trolling and petulant behaviors

        the principle is, that the great mean does not “stoop to conquer”

        1. Kurtz, when one gathers up the horses and corrals them one might take all but they should leave out the Trojan Horse.

        2. That is the point Kurtz, and especially during a crisis. Expecting to Trump to change would a waste of time.

          1. Expecting to Trump to change would a waste of time.

            Then stop being a hypocrite and demonstrate you are better than him by not supporting the attacks against him.

            Ready. Go.

            1. Olly, if you have not noticed, Trump is not a neutral and passive observer of these events, but a negative force damaging the response and as usual busy dividing and escaping blame. We would be much better off if he sat it out. Let Pence take charge.

              1. The archives have all the evidence that you’ve been wrong for nearly 4 years when it involves exercising sound judgment about this President. The likelihood you’ve finally got something right defies reason.

        3. I certainly understand your view. Sometimes I feel the same, sometimes it bothers me. Then I get over it quickly after watching one question from a “reporter” at the WH briefings.

  5. Trump, in his good grace, knowing there would be face-to-face meetings, thought Romney would feel uncomfortable participating. That folks is showing compassion during a crisis.

    1. Given that the acrimony between Sen. Romney and the President places Romney functionally in the Senate Democratic Caucus, deliberations of the ” Opening Up America Again Congressional Group” could be leaked to tarnish the President’s work with that group. The bad blood between Romney and Trump goes far back on both sides, plenty of gratuitous personal attacks. Romney’s record on restoring American jobs isn’t entirely sterling, either.

      1. we’re going to see a lot more from “private equity” enterprises over the coming year as they dismantle bankrupt businesses and vacuum up assets at bargain prices.

        Long on KKR Blackstone, and Carlyle Group. I think Carlyle was the Bush’s chop shop, if I recall correctly

  6. More importantly, he is the representative of the people of Utah who deserve to have his voice heard for the benefit of their state.

    The people of Utah have representatives to speak for them.

    1. More to the point…the citizens of Utah have introduced a bill to allow them to recall a sitting senator…Romney is the sole reason for that bill.
      Romney was the only R in both houses who voted for an article of impeachment. The same republican that also during Trump’s campaign for President put out an ad attacking him.

      You can give Mr Romney the benefit of the doubt, but Romney is a political and petty person. I would not put it past him to have voted for impeachment just to deny Trump the ability to say that the only part of the impeachment that was bipartisan was the vote to acquit him.

      You know full well and better than I, and I believe Romney has the faculty to know as well, there was no grounds for a guilty verdict beyond “feelings”.

    2. Speaking as an Utahan, Mittens does not represent us, but only his own interests. Sen. Lee will do just fine in such discussions, without Mittens typical grandstanding and backstabbing.

      P.S. I did not vote for this despicable carpetbagger that was not moved forward by the traditional caucus system, but by a vile socialist/communist/Marxist “Count My Vote” system.

  7. Ha, ha, ha. 😂 ‘Trump’ should move beyond the impeachment? Are you serious, JT? Is this satire? I beg to differ. There is zero value having a stooge like Romney on board when it is known he will obstruct out of spite. That’s just good management. I have yet to hear any dem or member of the MSM walk back anything while they push for a second impeachment. We all have our blind spots, I guess.

    1. i doubt that, the dynamic with only Republicans in the house would be to scold him and put him in the corner. Seems like a missed opportunity for unity by Trump if you ask me, but, he’s the boss and Im just an armchair quarterback out here in flyover

    2. James, if Trump is unable to lead during an international crisis, he should step down. So far he has been unable to do so, but we can hope he finally gets it. Not likely, but what else can we do until next January?

      1. Please tell us you think Joe Biden could lead anything?? Let alone do it well?? Good lord. Joe Biden is unable to do anything but lie. His entire campaign launch was based on a lie. And he continues to lie. Without Hollywood and the MSM running interference and protection for Old Creepy Joe, he would be toast. His brain is fried. He is a rapist (read Tara Reid’s story) and a corrupt, self-dealing dum dum. Period. What an embarrassment for the Democrats. Joe Biden is lucky he does not have to appear at campaign events in front of crowds, or answer serious questions by the lamestream press because he totally sucks at it.

  9. I am going to assume for the nonce that Romney cast his impeachment vote in good conscience (while repressing my gag reflex). Which means, he is an idiot. Because a President has an absolute right to expose corruption. Exactly as Joe Biden did on the video. The only thing that makes Biden’s act fishy is that his son was on the board of a crooked company. Mostly, because there is another aspect of Biden’s act that made it fishy but TMI here. But in short, Trump did nothing wrong despite all the whooping and hollering.

    So, establishing that Romney is an idiot, why would anybody want him on the board???

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

    1. “So, establishing that Romney is an idiot, why would anybody want him on the board???” Especially when the point of this board is restoring American jobs. Romney’s record isn’t clean there:

    2. Squeaky:
      “So, establishing that Romney is an idiot, why would anybody want him on the board??”
      ******************
      Marquis de Sade?

    3. That goat in whitehouse is as qualified to fight corruption as a fox is in guarding the hens. Comparing the goat with a successful man like Romney just shows how pathetic you are.

      1. G.O.A.T= Greatest Of All Time!

        President Trump truly appreciates your full-throated and passionate support.

        2. Olly:

          I wanted see how long it took him to figure that out. Darn! I think he really was writing “Gandalf” but misspelled it.

    1. Paul, fighting an international crisis is not when you engage in “payback”.

      No wonder Trump is popular with some of these guys. They’re low character idiots too.

      1. Anon – one of the things about taking a principled stand, you expect to take some fall out for it. It is now raining.

      2. fighting an international crisis is not when you engage in “payback”.

        Does that mean you’re reversing course to now condemn the Democratic party’s efforts to undermine the Trump administration?

      3. Your support of Romney is noted and amoral corporate raiders everywhere thank you. American workers where Bain Capital was active, not so much.

  11. No , no and again no. On many occasions after the impeachment Mitt Romney showed himself ,by way of public remarks , statements and interviews as a self-serving , burning all the bridges behind individual , sometimes to the point of incredulity whether it’s done on purpose just to be different which is silly if not stupid considering it comes from the mouth of the senator.

  12. “I still view Romney as an honorable person who cast a vote in good-faith.”

    *********************************************

    And the check is in the mail.

  13. Romney hates Trump. He is jealous of Trump. He thinks he is superior, Romney should resign but he will not. But, he will not run for reelection. Utah will make it clear he can’t run again. Romney is part of the Political Elite and Washington swamp. Good for Trump to X Romney out.

    1. “He thinks he is superior,”

      Currency, how correct you are. That is a leftist flaw. It can be said in one word, deplorables. Hillary and Mitt belong together.

    1. General Benedict Arnold finished out the Revolutionary War in the service of George III and had prudently moved to British territory by the time Washington was choosing a cabinet. Romney hadn’t quite conspired to hand a major American fort to the enemy, but it’s clear that Romney’s been just as vocally petty and petulant in his current office regarding the current President Professor Turley accuses Trump of being.

      I don’t see the point in trying to decide who’s the more petty and petulant between Trump and Romney.

  15. Yes, JT must be very uncomfortable witnessing such a rare instance of pettiness and personality above country by our President. So out of character!

  16. The impeachment proceedings were a sham. No votes were cast for the resolution in good faith.

    As for Romney, his current activities make no sense unless his purpose is to harass the President. At 72, he’s nine years past the median retirement age. He has a long menu of personal accomplishments. He’s a centimillionaire. He has 20 grandchildren. An ordinary man would be enjoying his last years in the old-guy way: golf, club luncheons, cards, Elderhostel, concerts, learning a new instrument, reading (and perhaps writing), two weeks at Chautauqua with his wife each year, visiting family and old friends. Instead, Romney’s in Congress (a truly horrid institution), representing a state where he’s been a palpable resident for less than five of his 72 years. No clue why Utah residents accepted this carpetbagging, but I recall that > 20% of them thought it advisable to cast a ballot for Evan McMullin. I don’t blame Trump for telling him to take a hike, and if you weren’t addled by an establishment-uber-alles mentality, neither would you.

    1. The Senate GOP majority – which represents a minority of American voters, like the President – made the impeachment hearings a sham by denying witnesses for the 1st time in our long history.

      Trump will be 74 in 2 months and is an ignorant liar with questionable a business record.

      1. Btb:
        Let’s go over this again doofus, they had lots of witnesses by deposition and hearing transcript. Just as good, just as subject to cross exam and used by every court and adjudicatory body in the land. Did you major in remedial? Quit with the Goebbels routine, you don’t look good in gray and red.

        1. Mespo, you claim to be an attorney but rarely even try to put together an argument for your primitive impulses and when you do they’re as lame as this one.

          The Trump impeachment hearing was the first US Senate Impeachment hearing to not call any witnesses, and an important 1st person witnesses who had not testified before the House was one of those waiting in the wings. Trump also stonewalled the House hearing.

            1. I accept your surrender mespo. I get it – too late to cut your losses, but why continue your humiliation.

              1. I wouldn’t, you’ll get run over again in the ceremony. The sheep always think the herders surrendered whine they herd em into the stock yards and leave.

                1. Oooooh, clever analogy. So your the guy who cleans the pen? Who’s John Bolton and Lev Parnas?

                  1. How does a man in his 70s come to relish to be so nasty, insulting and hateful?

                    2. “mespo – I think we need a white flag symbol 😉”

                      What better white flag than using the name “Jan F.” who flees the scene to reappear under various aliases starting with Anon and replicating itself under the guise of multiple aliases still in use.

              2. Allan:

                “What better white flag than using the name “Jan F.” who flees the scene to reappear under various aliases starting with Anon and replicating itself under the guise of multiple aliases still in use.”

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                I prefer to think of Anon as Sybil not just the sock puppet drawer. Like Sybil, he’s either crazy or a master liar.

                1. I suspect Natacha has a menu of clinical diagnoses. Gainesville strikes me as someone who decided fairly early in life it was his business to speak twaddle to power (and any other poor schlub in earshot). Most people figure out it’s twaddle before they reach the age of 74.

                2. “he’s either crazy or a master liar.”

                  Mespo, he can’t be a master liar because we all know he is a liar.

          2. “The Trump impeachment hearing was the first US Senate Impeachment hearing to not call any witnesses,”

            It was not the lack of witnesses. It was the lack of proof.

            1. Gainesville expects us to believe he’s reviewed the transcripts of the umpteen impeachment trials held in the Senate over 200-odd years.

              1. We often worry about kids that learn to read words quickly but are never able to adequately evaluate what those words are saying. I always wondered what happened to those kids when they grew up but now I have my answer.

      2. “Trump will be 74 in 2 months and is an ignorant liar with questionable a business record.”

        And is oriented as to time, place and office he’s running for.

        Trump’s opponent told voters in the Carolinas he was running for the Senate this year. Biden faces the sort of rape charges (regarding his conduct while in the US Senate) the Democrats and their captive press found plausible against Brett Kavanaugh. He publicly bragged about withholding foreign aid from the Ukraine until an investigation into the firm that later hired his son Hunter was stopped. Mr. Biden, despite considerable bipartisan concern, persists in fondlng women without their consent in public gatherings.

        Trump took the initiative to undo the civil rights mess Biden and his Senate cohorts left regarding mandatory minimum sentencing which predominantly affected African-Americans, working with the current Congress on both sides of the aisle for corrective legislation and commutation of some sentences which seemed extreme. Had Trump not been elected in 2016, the “Biden Bill” would still be used to disproportionately punish the poor and people of color who found themselves in the Federal courts without a friend.

        1. Mandatory minimums do not manufacture a ‘civil rights mess’ except in the addled brains of people who object to punishment per se.

          1. I object to punishment and don’t consider it a civil rights mess but there was something genuinely unfair in allowing people to be sentenced as drug dealers with no evidence of any actual selling activity or intent to do so, just based on the mere possession of a handful of cocaine rocks more than one person could use in a few days. if even that much. it seems to me extremely dangerous to tack on extra time for presumptions that are based on no proof.

            I’m not sympathetic to blacks as a group whatsoever, in fact I have been often accused of being racist, and I don’t really care about the insult. i would probably even venture that disproportionately locking them up helped drive down violent crime. however, that was not the law, even if it was the effect.

            but, just as a matter of due process, to this day that really troubles the hell out of me. Let me transpose the concern into a different context:

            maybe if A Democrat president gets elected they will one day sentence me for selling guns withoujt a license, even though I don’t have any illegal guns, and I never sell them, just because I have more than a handful of guns, therefore that’s all it takes. that’s the core issue about the crack sentencing that really bothers me.

            a somewhat different, but in some ways similar, bad thing is happening with “hate crimes’ where sentencing enhancements and time are now routinely being tacked on with little proof of anything beyond the underlying criminal activity.

      4. “Trump will be 74 in 2 months and is an ignorant liar with questionable a business record.”

    2. “if you weren’t addled by an establishment-uber-alles mentality, neither would you.”
      **************
      Yeah, that’s going around.

  17. martha,
    google this article:
    What happens when a Confidential Informant becomes President?

  18. Maybe it’s just Karma..Romney has a large ego as well..there are plenty of people with his expertise…”a vote in good faith” seems way too simplistic..

    1. Romney’s experience in protecting American jobs was summed up in a compaign ad in 2012:

  19. Romney’s co-founding of Bain Capital was cited by the DNC and Obama campaign as a count against him, concern about corporate buy-outs and massive layoffs. If those charges are true, it’s a reason not to invite a potential corporate raider to a discussion on how to restore the American economy during and after the pandemic.

    There’s also the perception that Romney huddled with Congressional Democrats on impeachment. No one likes a skunk at a picnic.

  20. Petty and petulant! Isn’t that a summation of Trumps persona with the addition of crooked and mendacious

      1. “Bill,”

        That article was lame. It was a lot of name dropping, insults, innuendoes, and little or no proof of its essential allegation.

        Ie, that article sucked.

        I also don’t get the point. Are they trying to smear Trump by saying that he’s cooperated with law enforcement? Is that suppsoed to be bad?

        You cant have your cake and eat it too. Either he’s a gangster– he’s not, that’s patently false; or he’s a lawful citizen.

        Saying that he sold condos to gangsters proves nothing. Saying that he cooperated with lawful investigations is not a smear.I could go on down the list of falsehoods and innuendos in this article but what’s the point.

        This article is used tp.

        1. Mr. Kurtz:

          You said: “I also don’t get the point. Are they trying to smear Trump by saying that he’s cooperated with law enforcement? Is that suppsoed to be bad”
          In that part of the article, they are saying that he’s a snitch, like Whitey Bulgar – who cooperated with the FBI – who knew about his crimes, including murder. Sounds like logic isn’t one of your strong-suits.

          2. one more thing bill,

            Whitey Bulger was part of an organized crime gang.

            Trump is a citizen. A square.

            hence, the comparison you’re going for, would make as little sense in a jail cell as it did in that article

      2. Are you familiar with Jessica Savitch? She had a fatal vehicle accident a few short months after disclosing that Gene Klein of the San Diego Charges attended a meeting with known organized crime members in Acapulco.

    2. Waal, you know Martha, we often don’t see ourselves as others do.

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