Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney offered a harsh critique of President Donald Trump on Friday after reviewing the special counsel’s report, breaking from Republicans who have claimed Robert Mueller’s finding that there was no collusion between Trump’s team and Russia in the 2016 presidential election have exonerated the president.
“Reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders,” Romney said in a statement.
Romney, a Utah Republican and former GOP presidential nominee, said it was “good news” that Mueller didn’t find evidence to charge the president, a move he said would have “taken us through a wrenching process with the potential for constitutional crisis.