Mitt Romney speaking now on the Senate floor regarding Trump and impeachment: "There's no question in my mind that, were their names not Biden, the president would never have done what he did."
NEWS: Mitt Romney (R-Utah) says he will vote to remove President Donald Trump from office in the impeachment trial.
"The president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust," he says.
"The president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust," he says.
ROMNEY on TRUMP: "What he did was not perfect. No, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security, and our fundamental values."
Mitt Romney becomes the first Republican to announce he'll vote to remove Donald Trump from office: "Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine."
Key Mitt Romney line —> "Were I to ignore the evidence that has been presented and disregard what I believe my oath and the Constitution demands of me for the sake of a partisan end, it would, I fear, expose my character to history's rebuke, and the censure of my own conscience."
Romney on voting to remove the president: "My vote will likely be in the minority in the Senate. But irrespective of these things, with my vote I will tell my children and their children that I did my duty to the best of my ability, believing that my country expected it of me."
