Mitt Romney ‘doing better’ after fall

2 March 2021, 05:44

Mitt Romney in mask
Biden Cabinet. Picture: PA

The Utah politician jokingly said he was injured at an event which celebrated former president Donald Trump.

Republican Senator Mitt Romney said that he was knocked unconscious in a fall over the weekend but is now “doing better”.

The Utah representative said the accident happened when he was spending time with his grandchildren in Boston.

He told reporters he was taken to a hospital and got stitches on his right eyebrow and lip.

“I had kind of a tough, tough weekend. I went to CPAC — that was a problem,” Mr Romney joked, referring to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida.

The 73-year-old did not attend the conference over the weekend, which was largely a celebration of former president Donald Trump.

Mr Romney, a longtime opponent of the former US leader, was one of just seven Republicans who voted to convict  MrTrump in his Senate impeachment trial last month.

By Press Association

Latest World News

See more Latest World News

Representatives of the Turkish communities put flowers over a memorial placed on the spot of an explosion on Istanbul’s popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue

Syrian woman sentenced to life in prison for Istanbul bombing in 2022

Alexander Lukashenko has warned of 'apocalypse'

Belarus is hosting 'several dozen' Russian nuclear weapons, Lukashenko says, as he warns of 'apocalypse'

Vietnamese chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue speaks to Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the national assembly in Hanoi, Vietnam

Head of Vietnamese parliament resigns amid corruption probe

French protesters

Students resume pro-Palestinian protests at prestigious Paris university

Crew of the HMS Diamond watch the Sea Viper missile system was used to destroy the projectile

Royal Navy thwarts Houthi attack on container ship by shooting down ballistic missile in combat for first time

Former US president Donald Trump speaks to the media at Manhattan criminal court during the continuation of his trial

Trump hush money trial to resume with cross-examination of ex-tabloid publisher

Smoke rises in the sky after an explosion in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel

Egypt sends delegation to Israel in hopes of brokering ceasefire

Elderly voters sit as others stand in a queue to vote during the second round of voting in the six-week-long national election near Palakkad, India

India begins second phase of national elections with Modi’s BJP as front-runner

A Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital

Premature baby rescued from dead mother’s womb in Gaza dies

A man stands on a house that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, in Hanine village, south Lebanon

Hezbollah ambushes Israeli convoy, killing civilian

Ramia Abdo Sultan, lawyer and communications relations advisor of the Australian National Imams Council with Imams speaks during a press conference in Sydney g

Muslim groups claim ‘double standard’ in police handling of Sydney stabbings

US defence secretary Lloyd Austin

US set to provide six billion dollars in long-term military aid for Ukraine

Israel Palestinians Campus Protests

Pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University settle in for 10th day

Authorities stand next to the nine coffins that contain the remains of unidentified migrants, at the Sao Jorge cemetery, in Belem, Para state, Brazil

Brazil buries bodies of migrants who drifted in African boat to Amazon

Michel Patrick Boisver

Haiti welcomes new governing council as gang-ravaged country seeks peace

American Abducted Taliban

Family of US man believed to be held by Taliban seek help from UN