Romney crosses party lines by voting to convict Trump

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By Donna Baeck

Mitt Romney was the only Republican senator to convict the president for the abuse of power during the senate vote in the impeachment trial on Wednesday afternoon in the Capitol building, according to CNN.

Romney announced his vote during his speech a few hours before the rest of the GOP senators voted against both articles of impeachment. He explained how his faith guided him to make the decision and condemned the president, ABC reported.

"I take an oath before God as enormously consequential. I knew from the outset that being tasked with judging the president, the leader of my own party, would be the most difficult decision I have ever faced. I was not wrong,” Romney told ABC.

CNN reported Romney criticized the president for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rival during the election. 

“The president's purpose was personal and political. Accordingly, the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust,” Romney told CNN. 

ABC reported Romney was aware of the possible backlash from the Republicans.

"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. tweeted.

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