福克斯新闻主持人珍妮·皮罗(Jeanine Pirro)在周六晚间节目中使用了与唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)相似的谈话要点,严厉批评了参议员米特·罗姆尼(Mitt Romney),此前这位犹他州共和党人成为他所在的政党中唯一一位与民主党一起投票判定总统有罪的成员。
尽管特朗普被共和党控制的参议院宣告无罪,但罗姆尼跨越党派界限与民主党一起投票支持总统因“滥用权力”而被免职。在投票前的一次演讲中,罗姆尼称特朗普对乌克兰的行为“令人震惊地滥用了公众信任”。
“他怎么敢!”皮罗经常为特朗普辩护并称赞他,在她的节目中抱怨 珍妮法官主持正义。“他怎么可能?他为什么要这么做?”主持人继续称罗姆尼为“尴尬”,声称他投票的方式是出于对总统的嫉妒。
皮罗说:“你对这个[·特朗普的嫉妒一直在你心中燃烧,因为你永远无法达到他的高度。”。罗姆尼是共和党2012年的总统候选人,但在那次选举中输给了民主党现任总统、前总统巴拉克·奥巴马。
"你从美国参议院滚出去怎么样?"皮罗说。“犹他州的人们对你非常愤怒,你想让自己受到憎恨特朗普的左派的喜爱的梦想是一个笑话。”
在具有历史意义的弹劾投票之前,罗姆尼周三在参议院发表激动人心的演讲,引用了他的信念和公正誓言。这位犹他州议员决定站在民主党一边,成为美国历史上第一位投票罢免自己政党总统的参议员。
“他做的并不完美。不,这是对我们的选举权、国家安全和基本价值观的公然侵犯,”参议员说。“在选举中舞弊以保住自己的职位,可能是我所能想象到的最具侮辱性和破坏性的违背就职誓言的行为。”
在这个来自参议院电视网的截图中,参议员米特·罗姆尼(右犹他州)讲述了他的信仰如何指导他在2月5日于华盛顿特区举行的参议院对唐纳德·特朗普总统的弹劾条款的审议
特朗普和他的支持者迅速跳出来诋毁和驳斥罗姆尼的批评。唐纳德·特朗普建议罗姆尼应该被踢出共和党。
“米特·罗姆尼永远怀恨在心,他永远不会成为总统。总统的儿子在推特上写道:“他当时太虚弱,无法击败民主党,所以他现在加入了他们。“他现在正式成为抵抗组织的一员&应该被驱逐出@共和党。”
总统后来在推特上发布了一段奇怪的视频,暗示罗姆尼是“民主党的秘密资产”周六,他在推特上发布了皮罗攻击这位共和党参议员的片段,写道:“许多人对@米特罗姆尼的感觉!”
FOX NEWS HOST CALLS ROMNEY AN 'EMBARRASSMENT' AND TELLS HIM TO 'GET THE HELL OUT' OF THE SENATE FOLLOWING IMPEACHMENT VOTE
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro used talking points similar to those employed by Donald Trump to harshly criticize Senator Mitt Romney on her Saturday evening program, after the Utah Republican became the only member of his political party to vote alongside Democrats to convict the president last week.
Although Trump was acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate, Romney crossed party linesto vote for the president's removal for "abuse of power" along with Democrats. In a speech ahead of the vote, Romney argued that Trump was "guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust" through his actions toward Ukraine.
"How dare he!" Pirro, who regularly defends and praises Trump, complained during her showJustice with Judge Jeanine. "How could he? And why would he?" The host went on to call Romney an "embarrassment," claiming he voted the way he did out of jealousy of the president.
"Your jealousy of this man [Trump] is a constant rage burning within you because you can never rise to the heights that he has," Pirro said. Romney was the Republican party's 2012 presidential nominee but lost in that election to the Democratic incumbent, former President Barack Obama.
"How about you get the hell out of the United States Senate?" Pirro said. "The people in Utah are furious with you, and your dream of endearing yourself to the Trump-hating left is a joke."
Romney cited his faith and his oath of impartiality in his emotional speech from the Senate floor on Wednesday ahead of the historic impeachment vote. With his decision to side with Democrats, the Utah lawmaker became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to remove a president of his own political party.
"What he did was not perfect. No, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values," the senator said. "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."
In this screengrab taken from a Senate Television webcast, Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) talks about how his faith guided his deliberations on the articles of impeachment during proceedings against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol on February 5 in Washington, D.C.
Trump and his supporters quickly jumped to discredit and dismiss Romney's criticism. Donald Trump Jr. suggested that Romney should be kicked out of the Republican party.
"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," the president's son tweeted. "He's now officially a member of the resistance & should be expelled from the @GOP."
The president later tweeted out a bizarre video suggesting that Romney was a "Democrat secret asset." On Saturday, he tweeted out a clip of Pirro's attack on the GOP senator, writing: "The feeling of many about @MittRomney!"