Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) managed to put the proper perspective on Donald Trumps hush money trial and the former president will probably hate him for it.
Trump is accused of hiding the purpose of $130,000 in payments in 2016, shortly before the election, that went to adult film actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from talking about an alleged extramarital affair with Trump in 2006.
Although Trump has denied the affair took place, Romney made a compelling argument for why the former president might not be telling the whole truth:
I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trumps character, Romney told CNN s Manu Raju. And, so far as I know, you dont pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.
Romney: I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trump's character, and so far as I know you don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you. pic.twitter.com/7N9lu8pkww
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 23, 2024
Many people on X, formerly Twitter, were impressed by Romneys burn.
Savage & @MittRomney are not words I ever considered putting together. https://t.co/f96us5sj6u
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) April 23, 2024
Id like to report a murder https://t.co/BtBoDGuADu
— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) April 23, 2024
Lolz. When even Mitt Romney is roasting you https://t.co/kplOOjKZE9
— Hadley Sheley (@HadleySheley) April 23, 2024
Its genuinely hard to do justice to the extent to which Mitt Romney has no
— Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMPS FORMER FIXER) (@speechboy71) April 23, 2024
more f***s left to give https://t.co/PAypERy5ku
. . . Well when you put it that way it seems so obvious. Marked safe from paying someone to not have or to have sex. And yet common sense and even an ounce of reason has fled and is nowhere to be found among the MAGA sheep. https://t.co/A1F6hN8Rzf
— Geoff (@GeoffBrown82) April 23, 2024
I will bite the bullet and agree not to have sex with Donald Trump.
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) April 23, 2024
Please send me my check for $130,000. https://t.co/AP4pSuWlHs
This means Lindsey Graham, Byron Donalds, Tim Scott, Jim Jordan, Marg and more sycophantic assholeswill now run to any camera to exclaim theres nothing wrong with paying a porn star to not have sex with them. Theyll add that its completely normal payment. https://t.co/peAJ65KP4a
— Evie CG (@cg_evie) April 23, 2024
If Trump thought he was a chick magnet before, imagine how many women would line up to get paid $130k to not have sex with him now! https://t.co/c6i2d7zDvN
— Patricia A. Smith (@nonconfromist) April 23, 2024
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