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Supporters of President Trump mocked Sen. Mitt Romney at a Utah airport for not supporting the president ahead of Congress certifying the Electoral College results.
In a video posted to Twitter, Romney appears to be waiting for his flight from Salt Lake City to Washington, DC, in the waiting area when an angry woman approaches him and calls him out for not siding with Trump’s claims of election fraud.
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Donald Trump Supporters Harass, Heckle Mitt Romney With ‘Traitor’ Chant On Flight
www.huffpost.com/entry/mitt-romney-flight-donald-trump-supporters-chants_n_5ff5a7e5c5b64e568bf2f4e6
Pro-Trump supporters accosted the Utah Republican before the flight from Salt Lake City to Washington.
By Lee Moran
Supporters of President Donald Trump heckled and harassed Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) with repeated shouts of “traitor” on board a flight from Salt Lake City to Washington on Tuesday.
In videos circulating on Twitter, the small group of pro-Trump passengers hollered out conspiracy theories, demanded Romney resign and accused him of failing to listen to his constituents, multiple media outlets reported.
Mitt Romney, in a flight full of patriots in their way to DC pic.twitter.com/t9uq3vkCo5
— Non timebo mala (@ancperl) January 5, 2021
Other videos shared on social media showed Trump supporters accosting Romney before the flight from Salt Lake City International Airport for not supporting the president’s futile efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.
“I do support President Trump in things I agree with,” Romney calmly explained to one woman, after asking her to put on a face mask. She told Romney not to “tell me what to do,” but then complied with his request.
When the woman asked Romney if he would support Trump’s false claims about “fraudulent votes,” he responded: “No, I’m not ... We have a Constitution and the constitutional process is clear and I will follow the Constitution. And then I will explain all that when we meet in Congress.”
Romney, who did not vote for Trump in the election and was the only Senate Republican to vote to convict the president in his impeachment trial last year, later rose from his seat in an airport waiting area and walked away as a man told him that “Trump is a juggernaut,” said the senator’s “legacy is nothing” and the woman shouted that Romney was an “absolute joke.”
Utah Patriots catch Rino Romney at Salt Lake City international airport! He thinks he’s above his constituents!!! Openly bashing @realdonaldtrump!!!
“These people won’t be able to walk down the street.”
VOLUME UP! ☝🏼 pic.twitter.com/Lntgozkajx
— Qtah (@utah_17) January 6, 2021
Romney shrugged off the harassment on Wednesday.
“That’s something I’ve gotten used to over the years. That’s the nature of politics, unfortunately,” he told HuffPost.
The confrontations occurred the day before Congress is set to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and Trump supporters assembled for a so-called Stop the Steal rally in Washington.
Romney on Sunday responded to Republican efforts to oppose the certification of the Electoral College votes with a statement decrying it as an “egregious ploy” that “dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic.”
“The congressional power to reject electors is reserved for the most extreme and unusual circumstances. These are far from it,” the senator wrote. “More Americans participated in this election than ever before, and they made their choice.”
“I could never have imagined seeing these things in the greatest democracy in the world. Has ambition so eclipsed principle?” Romney concluded.
Igor Bobic contributed reporting.