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Matt Welch

Mitt Romney, Like So Many NeverTrumpers, Was Hobbled by His Own Grubby Political Ambitions

When former president Donald Trump reacted last week to the publication of McKay Coppins' Romney: A Reckoning by calling both book and subject "boring, horrible, and totally predictable," the GOP presidential front-runner brought up the single best illustration of why Romney as a would-be Trump-slayer was fatally flawed.

"Does he mention his late night dinner with me at Trump International Hotel when he begged to be Secretary of State, then giving GLOWING COMMENTS about DJT at a follow up News Conference?" the 45th president Truth-Socialed. "I didn't give him the job, NOR DID I EVER INTEND TO. I JUST WANTED TO PROVE A POINT, THAT MITT ROMNEY IS, & ALWAYS HAS BEEN, A LIGHTWEIGHT JOKE!"

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