Romney Says After Meeting With Trump He’s Still Not Supporting Him: ‘I Draw a Line’ At Sexual Assault

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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) explained to CNN’s Manu Raju that his attending a meeting with Donald Trump on Capitol Hill last week was not a show of support for the presumptive GOP presidential candidate.

“It didn’t go there to support former President Trump. I went there to listen to what he was planning on doing if he became president,” Romney told Raju.

Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, also told CNN that “with President Trump it’s a matter of personal character. You know, I draw a line, and say when someone has been, actually, found to have been sexually assaulting, that’s, that’s something I just won’t crossover in the person I would want to have as president of the United States.”

Romney appeared to be referring to Trump being found liable for sexually assaulting columnist E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s. Trump has been ordered to pay Carroll $88.3 million dollars in two separate defamation verdicts as he has publicly attacked her since she went public with the assault accusation. A jury found Trump liable for the assault during the defamation trial.

Romney on Trump: “I draw a line and say when someone has been actually found to have been sexually assaulting, that’s something I just won’t cross over in the person I would want to have as president of the United States.”
Said he attended Trump meeting to listen, not to support pic.twitter.com/iU7eHJozgT

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 19, 2024

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