Trump takes it to Romney

President Donald Trump ridiculed Saturday Senator Mitt Romney (Utah) for his loss to former President Barack Obama in the 2012 elections, a day after Romney declared that he was "disgusted" by the acts of Trump, described in the report of the special advocate Robert Mueller.

"If @MittRomney had spent the same energy as Barack Obama fighting Donald Trump, he might have won the race (maybe)!" Trump tweeted.

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A 40-second video contrasting with footage from the election night and CNN television coverage since Romney's defeat at the White House six and a half years ago against Obama with Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 has been added to the position of President. House produced the brief clip, or it was made by one of the president's supporters.

Romney is one of the few Republican senators to have expressed disappointment following the publication of a redacted version of Mueller's report by Attorney General William Barr on Thursday.

Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) told a radio station that the special council's findings gave "an unflattering image of the president," and Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said in a statement that the report of 448 pages "documented a number of actions taken by the president or his associates that were inappropriate."

But Romney was more severe in his criticisms than his GOP colleagues in the Senate, saying in a statement On Friday, he was "disgusted by the scale and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misunderstanding on the part of those occupying positions at the highest level in the country, including the president."

The senator from Utah also said that he was "dismayed" that people associated with the 2016 Trump campaign "have received help from Russia" – which Romney was outright dismissed for designating America's biggest geopolitical foe during a debate with Obama in 2012.

Romney and Trump's weekend passages are the latest in a long series of rhetorical announcements exchanged between the two newest Republican presidential candidates.

Romney criticized Trump's candidacy throughout the 2016 White House race, pushing Trump to tweet in June of this year that Romney "choked like a dog" against Obama in 2012.

In January 2019, two days before Romney was ready to be sworn in as a young Senator from Utah, he wrote in a op-ed for the Washington Post, Trump "has not reached the level" of his office and the "words and actions of the President have caused consternation in the world".

Trump responded less than 24 hours later on Twitter, write online that he would prefer that Mitt focus on border security and on so many other things where it could be useful. I won big and he did not do it. He should be happy for all Republicans. Be a team player and win!

Despite the mutual enmity, Romney – a former Massachusetts governor – would have been once on Trump's shortlist become secretary of state. He had dinner with the elected president in November 2016.