Yesterday, Sen. Mitt Romney had a much covered interaction with CNN's Manu Raju who asked him about Trump's criminal trial and whether he was guilty of the underlying criminal conduct.
Romney responded "I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trump's character, and so far as I know you don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you." I have previously defended Romney in his votes on impeachment despite our disagreement on the constitutional standard.
His response is precisely what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is seeking from the jury: a verdict on Trump as a person rather than the underlying criminal allegations.
Rather than address the ambiguous criminal allegation, Romney suggested that Trump was guilty as charged in having a tryst with a former porn star.
Smart and savvy, he still viewed the question of the trial as whether Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels.
It is the crime not the character of Trump that is at issue in Manhattan.
To be fair, Romney was not giving a full interview on the case in his statement to CNN and may well have some reservations about the Bragg indictment.
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