Mitt Romney, the previous Republican presidential candidate and incoming US representative for Utah, has strongly criticized Donald Trump both personally and professionally, blaming him for betraying the country’s allies and coming up short on the character to lead a “divided” country.

In a Washington Post essay published on Tuesday evening, Romney said Trump’s presidency “made a deep descent” in December and blamed him for the takeoffs of the defense secretary, Jim Mattis, and White House head of staff, John Kelly.

“The appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president’s thoughtless claim that America has long been a ‘sucker’ in world affairs all defined his presidency down,” he wrote.

“On balance, his 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.”

Trump’s Reply to Mitt Romney’s Criticism

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Romney commended Trump’s Tax policies, position on China and arrangement of preservationist judges however said they were “mainstream” Republican policies. Since Trump’s rise, Romney has been one in a long list of traditionalist Republicans who have publicly bristled at Trump’s decency and leadership style, while for the most part supporting his policy objectives.

“To a great degree, a presidency shapes the public character of the nation,” he wrote. “A president should unite us and inspire us to follow ‘our better angels’. A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect. As a nation, we have been blessed with presidents who have called on the greatness of the American spirit.”

“With the nation so divided, resentful and angry, presidential leadership in qualities of character is indispensable. And it is in this province where the incumbent’s shortfall has been most glaring.”

He added that “Trump’s words and actions have caused dismay around the world” and cited Pew reports suggesting belief among people in Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Sweden that Trump would “do the right thing” had fallen from 84% in 2016 to 16% a year later.

Mitt Romney, has for some time been seen as a potential challenger to Trump’s 2020 aspirations

Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at Lansing Community College on May 8, 2012 in Lansing, Mi. (Photo-Bill Pugliano—Getty Images)

Romney is staking out an autonomous position two days before he takes office in the GOP-controlled Senate on Thursday. It is misty whether Trump will confront a serious challenge in 2020 to securing the Republican party’s presidential nomination. It would be the first run through since 1992 that an occupant had confronted such a challenge.

Trump remains phenomenally prominent with Republican voters, flaunting an approval rating that drifted close to the low 90s through the year’s end. In any case, as the Mueller examination twists on into its third calendar year, Trump likewise faces expanded investigation, with an approaching Democratic House planning to launch some of the extra inquiries into Trump’s conduct and the presidency.

Romney, who has run for president twice, has for some time been seen as a potential challenger to Trump’s 2020 aspirations and the two men have had a complicated political relationship.

Trump endorsed Romney’s run for a Senate seat in Utah in February a year ago, as well as Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.

Trump considered tapping Mitt Romney as secretary of state

Nov. 19, 2016, file photo, then-President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney shake hands as Romney leaves Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, N.J. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)

Be that as it may, amid the 2016 presidential campaign, Romney abraded Trump as a “fraud” who was “playing the American public for suckers”. Trump reacted that Romney had “chocked like a dog” in his unsuccessful 2012 campaign against Barack Obama.

Despite Romney’s earlier criticism, after Trump won the presidency in November 2016, Trump briefly considered tapping Romney as secretary of state.

In his essay on Tuesday, Romney said he “will speak out against significant statements or actions that are divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions”.

Romney has strongly guarded press freedom and challenged Trump’s repeated attacks on some news outlets as an“enemy of the people”.

In an essay in November, he wrote: “The media is essential to our Republic, to our freedom, to the cause of freedom abroad, and to our national security. It is very much our friend.”

Source – The Guardian

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