Washington • On Thursday, Mitt Romney will join the Senate. And he’s decided to join the great deliberative body in a very high-profile way.
The former Massachusetts governor and Utah senator-elect published a commentary Tuesday night in The Washington Post arguing that President Donald Trump’s character “falls short.”
“The Trump presidency made a deep descent in December,” Romney wrote, citing the departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Chief of Staff John Kelly, the appointment of less-experienced Cabinet replacements and the destruction of U.S. alliances. “On balance,” Romney added, Trump’s “conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.