'Like everyone else, I expected the Senate's impeachment trial of President Trump to end with a whimper. But then came one loud bang: Mitt Romney's announcement... The W.H. and its media boosters have been pummeling Romney ever since,' writes brianstelter
This was a first-line-of-his-eventual-obit decision. And he rolled it out accordingly, through interviews with The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Fox News. All of the interviews were embargoed until he formally broke ranks during a Senate floor speech."It was a deft public-relations move" by Romney"that apparently caught the White House off guard," the NYT's Michael Grynbaum wrote.The W.H.
They worry: 'Will the hosts on Fox attack me?' 'Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?' 'Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?'"In Romney's case, the answer to all three of those questions is yes. Victory in the Senate evidently wasn't enough for the pro-Trump media machine. They're now on a destroy mission...
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