Mitt Romney ‘doing better’ after weekend fall that left him unconscious
SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Mitt Romney took a fall over the
weekend that rendered him unconscious and left him with stitches and
bruises to his face.
“I’m doing better,” the Utah Republican told reporters in
Washington, D.C., on Monday. He said he fell while visiting his
grandchildren in Boston but didn’t say what he was doing. He was not
admitted to the hospital overnight.
Romney said received “a lot of stitches” to his eyebrow and eyelid. He also has bruising around his eyes
When reporters first asked what happened to him, Romney
joked about the Conservative Political Action Conference, where former
President Donald Trump called him out.
“Oh my goodness. I went to CPAC. That was a problem,” Romney said.
The senator did not attend the group’s annual conference
this past weekend. In 2020, the leader of the group disinvited him to
the annual gathering after he voted to include additional witnesses in
Trump’s first Senate impeachment trial.
“The ‘extreme conservative’ and Junior Senator from the
great state of Utah, Sen. Mitt Romney is formally NOT invited to
CPAC2020,” CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp tweeted last year.
At this year’s conference, Trump ridiculed Senate
Republicans who voted to convict him for inciting an insurrection at the
U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, his second impeachment trial. He said if they
spent the same energy attacking Democrats as they do him, they would be
successful.
Former Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who acted as a
top surrogate for Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, also took a shot
at the senator in a joke about his formerly secret Twitter account,
which Romney used under the name Pierre Delecto.
“My name is Jason Chaffetz, I’m from Utah and I am not
Mitt Romney,” Chaffetz said during a speech at CPAC. “If you’re looking
for Pierre Delecto, you need to go down the hall, go left, and then just
keep going left until, well, just keep going left. That’s where you’ll
find him.”
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