Republican Sen. Mitt Romney has denounced President Trump's firings of internal government oversight officials, calling it a 'threat to accountable democracy.'
Washington, DC Republican Sen. Mitt Romney on Saturday denounced President Donald Trump's firings of internal government oversight officials, calling it a"threat to accountable democracy."
Romney's comments came in response to Trump's Friday firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick -- the latest in a series of dismissals of independent government watchdogs that have come in the wake of the President's acquittal on two articles of impeachment earlier this year. "The firings of multiple Inspectors General is unprecedented; doing so without good cause chills the independence essential to their purpose.
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