The stuff Republicans are saying about Mitt Romney right now actually makes us feel sorry for the guy

The stuff Republicans are saying about Mitt Romney right now actually makes us feel sorry for the guy

Traitor. Rat. Loser. Disgusting human. Vindictive. Petulant child. Bitter. Piece of shit.

Those are just a few of the adjectives Republicans are using to describe their former party leader, Sen. Mitt Romney, after he voted to convict Donald Trump earlier today.

“The president asked a foreign government to investigate his political rival,” Romney said in an emotional speech on the Senator floor before casting his vote. “What the president did was wrong. Grievously wrong.”

Sen. Mitt Romney just announced he will vote to convict President Trump in a scathing speech pic.twitter.com/5g08SWBheK

— VICE News (@vicenews) February 5, 2020

Romney was the only Republican to side with Democrats when he voted yes on Article 1 of impeachment, which found Trump guilty of Abuse of Power. (He voted no on Article 2, which found Trump guilty of Obstruction of Congress.)

The backlash from members of his tribe who, just eight years ago, wanted him to be their president, was swift and damning…

Mitt Romney is forever bitter that he will never be POTUS. He was too weak to beat the Democrats then so he’s joining them now.

He’s now officially a member of the resistance & should be expelled from the @GOP.

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 5, 2020

The original author of Obamacare, Mitt Romney, can go fornicate himself with a wire brush. That is all.

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) February 5, 2020

@MittRomney your profile should read “Husband, Father, Grandfather, Former Governor, U.S. Senator, Traitor to the Republican Party, regular piece of shit. Hope you die of ass cancer.

— Nate Martin (@eodgof) February 5, 2020

One lovely dividend from the Dem impeachment farce: Useful Idiot Willard M. Romney now finished in national politics.

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 5, 2020

Mitt Romney just lost again. He never gets tired of losing

— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) February 5, 2020

BREAKING NEWS: President Trump has been acquitted.

AND

A Republican Utah lawmaker introduced a bill in the state’s legislature to recall U.S. senators like Mitt Romney.

The WINNING never stops!

— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) February 5, 2020

Mitt Romney is done. Forever done. Maybe he and @AdamSchiff will share a beer at the Standard Hotel tonight.

— Buzz Patterson for Congress (@BuzzPatterson) February 5, 2020

What is everyone so shocked about? Mitt Romney is a vindictive little rat who has put himself over country every chance he’s been given. Just like he failed to be president, he failed to remove this president. Loser.

— Jon Miller (@MillerStream) February 5, 2020

Sorry, Mitt, this is what the Left will always think of you. “Car Elevators Are The Latest In Luxury — Just Ask Mitt Romney” t.co/J97WM8VpDA

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) February 5, 2020

There’s a lot of votes you can take and still stay in the Republican party

The one vote that’s not acceptable?

Being the sole Republican to vote to impeach a Republican President

Mitt Romney is a straight-up traitor

— Will Chamberlain ?? (@willchamberlain) February 5, 2020

Rot in hell. @SenatorRomney @MittRomney You’re a deceitful fraud.

— Fred Zepplin (@TexasTruckMan) February 5, 2020

Every Democrat in the Senate is a liar and has no respect for the Constitution.

Oh yeah, and Mitt Romney.

— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 5, 2020

We never thought we’d say this, but… We actually feel kinda sorry for the guy!

While he may be hated within his own party, we have a feeling history will feel much differently. And that’s what really matters.

Related: Nancy Pelosi ripped up Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. And now, the memes…

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Senate Majority Failed American People by Acquitting Donald Trump and Voters Must Now Act

Senate Majority Failed American People by Acquitting Donald Trump and Voters Must Now Act

Today, HRC responded to the U.S. Senate’s narrow vote to acquit Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, despite members of both parties supporting his conviction.

“This is a sad day for our country. It is crystal clear that Donald Trump abused his power to subvert the next election, worked to cover it up, and lied about his motives and actions. Senators who have doubts about the evidence refused to seek the truth, but instead were this President’s accomplices in the cover up. This is profoundly troubling and a blow to the rule of law,” said HRC President Alphonso David. “We are a nation of laws, built on a promise in the Constitution that no one is above the law — especially those elected to serve the public, and that includes the president. The impeachment clause is not the only Constitutional remedy. The Senate majority has failed its Constitutional role. So in November, voters must make their disapproval known to those who have rejected justice and vote to remove Donald Trump from office.”

On Wednesday, the Senate voted 52-48 and 53-47, respectfully, to acquit Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, following a truncated trial  in which witnesses and documentary evidence were not permitted.

Last month, the Human Rights Campaign called for a fair and thorough trial and urged the Senate to ensure full accountability for the American people.

In December, HRC announced its support for the formal impeachment of Donald Trump. In September, HRC expressed support for a formal inquiry into the alleged corruption of Donald Trump in attempting to force the government of Ukraine to investigate a chief political rival by withholding foreign aid that had already been approved by Congress.

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Activist and icon Marsha P. Johnson is getting a park in Brooklyn renamed in her honor

Activist and icon Marsha P. Johnson is getting a park in Brooklyn renamed in her honor

Nearly 30 years after her death, Marsha P. Johnson is getting new life as the namesake of a New York City park. At a Human Rights Campaign gala on February 1, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared that Brooklyn’s East River State Park will be renamed to honor the transgender activist.

Related: Our transgender heroes: Remembering those who have paved the way

Cuomo made the announcement while asserting that New York was “fighting back” against hatred toward marginalized communities, per NBC News.

“New York State is the progressive capital of the nation, and while we are winning the legal battle for justice for the LGBTQ community, in many ways we are losing the broader war for equality,” he said.

The governor called Johnson an “icon of the community,” noting that the park — an 11-acre green space in Williamsburg with unobstructed views of midtown Manhattan — would be the first in New York to be named after an openly LGBTQ individual.

Johnson, dubbed the “Mayor of Christopher Street,” during her lifetime, was a drag queen and a prominent figure in the 1969 Stonewall uprising of LGBTQ folks against NYPD officers, which spurred the gay liberation movement. She’s also considered to be a pioneer of the transgender equality movement. Johnson died at age 46 in 1992.

Related: They kicked out Harvey Milk for being gay, now the U.S. Navy is building a ship named after him

Additionally, New York City officials announced last year that Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, with whom she founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries group, will be honored with a permanent monument in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “The LGBTQ+ movement was portrayed very much as a white, gay male movement,” First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray told The New York Times in May. “This monument counters that trend of whitewashing the history.”

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In Historic Break with Party, Mitt Romney Says He’ll Vote to Convict Trump

In Historic Break with Party, Mitt Romney Says He’ll Vote to Convict Trump

Expected by Republican colleagues to vote to acquit Donald Trump, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said today that he would vote to convict the president for abuse of power. Romney is the first GOP senator to break from his party and the first senator in history to vote to convict a same-party president in an impeachment trial.

Said Romney: “The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. Yes, he did. … The president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust. What he did was not perfect. No, it was a flagrant assault under electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values. … I swore an oath before God to exercise impartial justice. I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who I am. I take an oath before God as enormously consequential.”

Here’s Mitt Romney saying he is “only one vote” but knowing he’s standing on the right side of history. Romney will be the first Senator to vote against a President from his own party. @SenatorCollins should take notes-this is what leadership looks like. pic.twitter.com/U4rWDmIs6B

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) February 5, 2020

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Mitt Romney’s speech announcing his vote to convict President Trump: “He is acting as an American first, not a partisan first. … If there were more people in places of power who did just that, we’d find a lot more common ground” pic.twitter.com/PydxyAjln3

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 5, 2020

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