Donald Trump Will Hate What Mitt Romney Just Said About The Hush Money Trial

David Moye

23 April 2024 at 5:52 pm·2-min read

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) managed to put the proper perspective on Donald Trump’s hush money trial ― and the former president will probably hate him for it.

Trump is accused of hiding the purpose of $130,000 in payments in 2016, shortly before the election, that went to adult film actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from talking about an alleged extramarital affair with Trump in 2006.

Although Trump has denied the affair took place, Romney made a compelling argument for why the former president might not be telling the whole truth:

“I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trump’s character,” Romney told CNN’s Manu Raju. “And, so far as I know, you don’t pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.”

Romney: 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. pic.twitter.com/7N9lu8pkww
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 23, 2024

Many people on X, formerly Twitter, were impressed by Romney’s burn.

Savage & @MittRomney are not words I ever considered putting together. https://t.co/f96us5sj6u
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) April 23, 2024

I’d like to report a murder 🔥 https://t.co/BtBoDGuADu
— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) April 23, 2024

Lolz. When even Mitt Romney is roasting you… https://t.co/kplOOjKZE9
— Hadley Sheley (@HadleySheley) April 23, 2024

It’s genuinely hard to do justice to the extent to which Mitt Romney has no
more f***s left to give https://t.co/PAypERy5ku
— Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) (@speechboy71) April 23, 2024

😂😂😂 . . . Well when you put it that way it seems so obvious. Marked safe from paying someone to not have or to have sex. And yet common sense and even an ounce of reason has fled and is nowhere to be found among the MAGA sheep. https://t.co/A1F6hN8Rzf
— Geoff 🗽🇺🇸⚖️🏳️🌈🗽 (@GeoffBrown82) April 23, 2024

I will bite the bullet and agree not to have sex with Donald Trump.

Please send me my check for $130,000. https://t.co/AP4pSuWlHs
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) April 23, 2024

This means Lindsey Graham, Byron Donalds, Tim Scott, Jim Jordan, Marg and more sycophantic assholes—will now run to any camera to exclaim there’s nothing wrong with paying a porn star to not have sex with them. They’ll add that it’s completely normal payment. https://t.co/peAJ65KP4a
— Evie CG (@cg_evie) April 23, 2024

If Trump thought he was a chick magnet before, imagine how many women would line up to get paid $130k to not have sex with him now! https://t.co/c6i2d7zDvN
— Patricia A. Smith🆘🍑🆘 (@nonconfromist) April 23, 2024

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