SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney is warning Republicans to do whatever they can to nominate someone besides Donald Trump, in part because, Romney said, Trump supports torture of attackers and the killing of their children.
The 2012 GOP presidential nominee told the University of Utah audience that “this is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.”
Trump has suggested that indiscriminate bombing of attackers’ home bases, even if it harms their family members, would be an effective deterrent.
Romney adds that Trump’s “promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.”
That’s a reference to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s fraud case against Trump, alleging that Trump University was unlicensed since it began operating in 2005 and promised lessons with real estate experts hand-picked by Trump, only one of whom had ever met him.
Trump has denied wrongdoing.