Michael J. Truncale disparaged Obama in 2011. Said Romney: “I felt I just couldn’t go along with that for a judge.”
By Mike DeBonis Mike DeBonis Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives Email Bio Follow May 14 at 4:24 PM Republican Sen. Mitt Romney broke with President Trump and the rest of his party Tuesday to oppose the confirmation of a federal judge who had referred to former president Barack Obama as an “un-American impostor.”
In a brief interview after the vote, Romney mentioned 2011 comments Truncale made to a women’s group in Beaumont, Tex., in which he spoke about Obama. Liberal groups such as the Alliance for Justice and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights raised sharp concerns about Truncale’s nomination, citing past public statements he had made on a wide range of issues.
He also made a broader effort to excuse his past statements by saying he had been speaking “in my capacities as a candidate for the United States Congress or as a political commentator.”
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