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Mitt Romney: Russia probe should continue despite Sessions firing

Republican Mitt Romney, who won election to the Senate in the midterm elections, said special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation should continue despite President Trump’s firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

“I want to thank Jeff Sessions for his service to our country as Attorney General. Under Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, it is imperative that the important work of the Justice Department continues, and that the Mueller investigation proceeds to its conclusion unimpeded,” Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, wrote on Twitter late Wednesday.

Romney, 71, has been a frequent critic of Trump’s and has made it clear that he wouldn’t walk in lock step with the president if he was elected to the Senate in Utah.

He addressed questions about whether he would support the Trump agenda in an op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune in June.





“On one hand there are those who believe supporting the Trump agenda means supporting every policy the president proposes, whether or not they actually agree with that policy,” he wrote in the newspaper. “I take a different course. I will support the president’s policies when I believe they are in the best interest of Utah and the nation.”

Romney during the 2016 presidential campaign called Trump “a phony, a fraud,” but appeared to moderate his view after Trump became president.

“President Trump was not the person I wanted to become the nominee of our party, but he’s president now. The policies he’s promoted have been pretty effective. And I support a lot of those policies,” he said during an October Republican rally in Arizona, adding that he would disagree when he felt there was a need.





Trump has referred to Romney as a “failed candidate” for losing in 2012 against President Barack Obama.

But he endorsed Romney’s Senate campaign.





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