Romney says GOP leaders turning up at Trump trial ’embarrassing’

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Sen. Mitt Romney mentioned Wednesday it is each “a bit embarrassing” and “a bit demeaning” for GOP leaders to indicate up outdoors a New York Metropolis courthouse in help of former President Donald Trump’s claims that his felony trial is a political persecution.

Romney, the Republican Get together’s 2012 presidential nominee, additionally had one thing to say in regards to the upcoming debates agreed to Wednesday by Trump and President Joe Biden, evaluating them to the pair of puppets that painting cantankerous aged hecklers on “The Muppet Present.”

The Utah Republican, who’s not in search of reelection, was requested to remark about leaders of his social gathering, together with Home Speaker Mike Johnson and different members of Congress together with a number of vice presidential contenders, showing outdoors Trump’s “hush cash” trial involving funds to an grownup movie actress.

“I feel it is a bit demeaning to indicate up in entrance of a courthouse, and notably one the place we’re speaking about an allegation of paying a porn star. It is actually, actually, very tough to observe,” Romney advised reporters earlier than a Senate Overseas Relations Committee assembly in Washington.

He mentioned that is as a result of “there’s a degree of dignity and decorum that you simply count on from people who find themselves working for the very best station within the land, and going out and prostrating themselves in entrance of the general public to try to apparently curry favor with the one who’s our nominee, it is a bit embarrassing.”

Trump’s supporters in New York Metropolis are seen as stepping in for the previous president who’s underneath a gag order throughout his trial on felony fees of falsifying enterprise information. Tuesday, the Home speaker referred to as the trial a “sham” and mentioned, “It is all about politics.”

Romney advised HuffPost senior politics reporter Igor Bobic he was looking forward to watching Trump and Biden debate. “It’s going to be entertaining, informative. Like the 2 previous guys on the ‘Muppets,'” Bobic quoted Romney as saying in a put up on social media platform X.

Bobic adopted up with a put up, noting: “Romney and Trump are the identical age, 77.”

CNN’s Manu Raju posted on X that Romney added, “I learn the polls like all people else. I feel Donald Trump is gonna win. Clearly, I have been saying all alongside he’ll be the nominee, and I feel he has the substantial edge on the ultimate contest.”

Trump and Biden at the moment are set to sq. off on CNN subsequent month and once more in September, spurning the Fee on Presidential Debates schedule that included an October debate on the College of Utah.