TimB: “Mitt said that he did it because he had sworn an oath and his religion required him to abide by it.”
Mitt will do whatever the Mormon church leaders tell him to do. He knows if he doesn’t he will be out on his backside. He is still pissed big time that he didn’t get to be President or Vice-president. Check out Bain Capital and the spending for the 2002 Winter Olympics which were held in Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah and the home of the Mormon church. I find him one of the most disingenuous people in politics.
He and Trump fell out big time during the 2016 Republican nomination process.
Mitt Romney - Wikipedia "Romney publicly criticized Trump for not releasing his taxes, saying there might be a “bombshell” in them.[394] Trump responded by calling Romney “one of the dumbest and worst candidates in the history of Republican politics.”[393] Then Romney gave a speech on March 3, 2016, at the Hinckley Institute of Politics, that represented a scathing attack on Trump’s personal behavior, business performance, and domestic and foreign policy stances. He said Trump was “a phony, a fraud … He’s playing members of the American public for suckers” and that “If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished.”[395][396] In response Trump dismissed Romney as a “choke artist”.[396] Romney’s speech represented an unprecedented attack by a major U.S. party’s most recent presidential nominee against the party’s current front-runner for the nomination.[396][397][398] Romney encouraged Republicans to engage in tactical voting, by supporting whichever of the remaining rivals had the best chance to beat Trump in any given state. …Romney then announced that he would not support Trump in the general election, saying, “I am dismayed at where we are now, I wish we had better choices”.[ "
Trump and Romney supposedly made up but Trump gave the Secretary of State position Romney wanted to Tillerson instead. I’m sure Trump sees Romney as the snake in the grass he is and will try to eliminate from politics him as soon as he can.