BOSTON – U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney was named the recipient of the Profile in Courage Award on Friday for splitting with his party and becoming the only Republican to vote to convict former President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial. “I’m very appreciative of the honor, but also humbled by it,” the senator from Utah told NBC's “Today” show in an interview aired Friday.
Trump's first trial in 2020 focused on the former president's relationship with Ukraine. Romney became the first senator in U.S.
history to vote for the conviction of a president who belonged to his own party, and was subject to intense criticism by Trump's supporters. “I sleep well because I know that I did what my conscience told me was the right thing to do,”