This is a long overdue letter of apology to Mitt Romney. When Romney ran for Senate against Jenny Wilson and The Tribune endorsed Romney, I wrote an op-ed criticizing The Tribune’s decision due, in no small part, to my expectation that a Sen. Romney would become another rubber stamp, the way Mike Lee became one, for anything Donald Trump wished to do.
I was wrong. Unlike Lee, Romney has held fast to his principles.
Is there a serious question about whether Trump used his position to pressure the Ukraine government to investigate Hunter Biden? Could his interest in such an investigation have to do with anything other than a means of damaging Joe Biden’s campaign to be POTUS?
A similarly obvious Trump crime occurred when, on a recorded telephone call, he pressured Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, to “find” him 11,780 votes so that he, not Biden, would win Georgia’s Electoral College votes, thus disenfranchising the Georgia voters who had selected Biden in preference to Trump.
Sen. Romney put country over party and correctly identified as crimes the actions then-President Trump committed in plain sight; this despite the risk to his own career the decision carried in Utah, a state in thrall to Trump.
As it happens, I was living in Massachusetts when Romney ran for governor there. In my opinion, he was clearly the best candidate in that race and I voted for him.
I apologize for misjudging you, Sen. Romney. You’ve proven your courageousness and I’d vote for you again.
Thomas Walker, Salt Lake City
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