Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, offered a critical assessment of the federal government’s readiness for the coronavirus, describing it as not a “great moment in American leadership.”
Romney mostly kept his criticisms broad, avoiding attacking President Donald Trump directly, though he took a few swipes at the president’s management style during an event with Georgetown University students via video chat on Tuesday night.
“The speed of our response looked slow compared to other people. That first phase will not stand out as a great moment in American leadership,” Romney said referring to the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, adding, “we didn’t look real strong and that’s kind of an understatement.”
Romney’s hot and cold relationship with Trump turned scorching earlier this year when he voted for one of the two articles of impeachment against the president. Romney was the only Senate Republican left off the White House’s bipartisan task force on reopening the economy. Trump admitted it was because he held a grudge against Romney and didn’t “really want his advice.”
Before joining the Senate this year, Romney was the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, governor of Massachusetts, president of a private equity firm and ran the 2002 Utah Olympics – all jobs that taught him about crisis management, he said.
While Romney said explicitly at one point, “I’m not blaming this administration,” he suggested ways he’d be doing things differently if it were him in the Oval Office, primarily coordinating resources and response through the federal government.
“It’s hard to say to all 50 governors, you guys all do your thing,” Romney said. “I think the federal coordination has been less than my personal style.”
Trump has largely left it up to states to figure out how and when to reopen their economies and has been resistant to the federal government taking the lead on acquiring the necessary testing.
(c) 2020, The Washington Post · Colby Itkowitz
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Mormon & Moron! If he could lose so miserably to Obama he’s not worth much!
He craves attention.
The Democrats’ whole focus for the entire Trump administration, and particular the first crucial Weeks of the virus, was to block anything Trump was trying to do and further even impeach him (with Pelosi ceremoniously and celebratorily handing out pens). Did Mitt Romney even once speak out about the dangers of the virus and denounce the Democrats dragging the entire virus response down as much as they could? Did he even once denounce Pelosi and DeBlasio for their very public encouragement to people to “go out” (and in particular the Chinese festival and Chinatown hugging people)? He is a US Senator – his place is not to only slam trump -= he should be slamming everyone who behaved in the atrocious manner, and slam himself for his own cowardly silence when it mattered.
Mitt [Or Pierre Delecto as he likes to portray himself].
NO BODY cares what you have to say.
You are the prototypical SORE LOSER.
Romney is king of the Rinos. He is my teacher in politics.