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Slamming 73-year-old President Donald Trump for his July 25 call with 41-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, 72-year-old Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.) continues his anti-Trump rhetoric seen during the 2016 campaign. Romney blasted Trump on Twitter for talking with Zelensky about investigating former Vice President and Democratic front-runner Joe Biden’s son Hunter, for corruption in Ukraine. When Joe was VP under Obama, he apparently helped Hunter land a cushy job, earning $50,000 a month, on the board of Cyprus-bassd Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company. “If the president asked or pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate his political rival, either directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme. Critical for the facts to come out,” Romney tweeted, joining House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in condemning Trump.

Romney grabs the headlines but doesn’t think for one second how his GOP words are exploited by the liberal press to attack Trump, even where what really happened has been twisted beyond recognition. Trump conversation about “the Bidens” was more about Joe’s son Hunter than Joe, not, at last check, a candidate for anything. Romney has jumped on the Pelosi bandwagon attacking Trump, not realizing that the president was more concerned about Hunter’s activity in the Ukraine making millions, when he had no background in the energy business. Yet Romney leaps to the conclusion that Trump was going after his political rival. Joe is one among 20 Democrat presidential candidates, not the nominee of the Democratic Party. Hunter is a the son of Joe Biden, a U.S. citizen, dabbling in the Ukraine, like Trump’s former campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, whose illicit gains in Ukraine landed him in prison.

Romey can’t get over Trump’s comment in the 2016 about his failed 2012 bid to challenge former President Barack Obama. Trump said Mitt “choked like a dog,” prompting Romney to continue to take shots at Trump. Romney’s comments are clearly in the minority, when his colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said emphatically that Trump did nothing wrong. When the story about Hunter going with his father on Air Force 2 to solicit millions, if not a billion, from China, for a private equity fund, Trump asked China to investigate. Again, Trump didn’t ask Beijing to investigate Joe, whom Romney calls his rival, he asked to look into Hunter, the one who made off like a bandit. Romney’s Twitter attack on Trump highlights the anti-Trump media that omits important details, promoting the worst possible interpretation of what happened.

Romney’s tweet tells the whole story of what Trump calls the “fake” news media. “When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated,” Romney tweeted. Trump was asking China to look into the millions Hunter Biden, not Joe, took out of China for his private equity fund. Romney, of course, sees no distinction between Joe and Hunter, buying Pelosi’s argument that Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors, deserving impeachment. Hunter Biden is not Trump’s political rival, despite the fact his father is running f or president. Imputing sinister political motives is precisely why Romney, the Democrat Party and the media want to try Trump in the court of public opinion, not in court.

When you consider that the Democrat Party and media have gone after Trump since he took office Jan. 20, 2017, accusing him of Russian collusion, among other things, Trump can’t fathom why going after corruption is not in his purview, when the Democrat Party, media, FBI, and Special Counsel went after him for alleged corruption. Trump didn’t pocket millions from Russia as alleged. But Hunter Binden pocketed millions from the Ukraine and untold sums, perhaps a billion, from China. “As president, I have an obligation to end CORRUPTION. Even if it means requesting the help of a foreign country or countries. This has nothing to do with politics or a political campaign against the Bidens. This does have to do with their corruption,” Trump tweeted, trying to set the record straight. But the media and Romney don’t see the distinction between Joe and Hunter.

Rushing to judgment on Trump’s phone call with Zelensky could wind backfiring on Democrat Party in 2020. Trump’s GOP critics, led on Fox News by daytime anchor Shepard Smith and his legal expert Judge Andrew Napolitano, have already tried-and-convicted Trump of high crime and misdemeanors. Reported in all the liberal news outlets, Napolitano’s condemnation of Trump is music to their ears. Called a fool by former U.S. Atty. Joe DiGenova, Napolitano continues his anti-Trump pronouncements much to the delight of the liberal press. DiGenova reminds viewers Napolitano has zero experience in the federal courts, serving a few years in New Jersey’s Superior Court. Yet Shep Smith finds it “repugnant” that he’s criticized for going outside his lane. Pelosi and her Democrat impeachment posse condemn Trump. Going after Hunter Biden for possible corruption is entirely fair game.