WORLD NEWS | Outgoing Sen. Sasse knows Trump’s criticism has shaped his legacy

OMAHA, Jan. 9 (AP) — Outgoing U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska knows people are likely to be drawn to his criticism of former President Donald Trump rather than his support for his leadership. remembered for the policies he supported during his eight years in office.

Sass addressed his legacy with the Omaha World-Herald as he prepares to leave the Senate Sunday to become president of the University of Florida.

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Sasse, a prominent Trump critic, joined several other Republicans in voting to bring the former president to an impeachment trial following the Capitol riots in 2021. Those criticisms led to Sasse being heavily criticized by his own party in Nebraska, even though Sasse voted for Trump 85 percent of the time and helped confirm three of his nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court .

Sasse acknowledged that his complicated relationship with Trump will shape his legacy.

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“As a human being, I just feel sorry for him because obviously there’s a lot of complicated stuff going on in his soul,” Sass told the paper. “As a human being, I feel sorry for him being so poor and hopeless. But on a policy level, I’ve always liked that he kept his word to the judges. … So we have to work very closely together on the judges.

Sass said he was particularly proud of his work on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which included establishing a committee on cybersecurity. He said 120 of the panel’s 190 recommendations have passed into law.

The UF work will allow Sass, who studied American history at Harvard, Yale and Oxford, to return to academia at a larger institution. Before he was elected to the Senate, Sasse led the small, private Midland University in his hometown of Fremont, Nebraska.

Sass said he couldn’t resist the chance to lead one of the largest public universities in the country, even after rejecting offers from other universities in recent years.

“South Florida is like a giant blank canvas,” Sasse said. “So I’m really excited about the many new products we’ll be building.”

Newly elected Gov. Jim Pillen will name Sasse’s replacement, and the leading candidate for the job is former Gov. Pete Ricketts who Pillen replaced this month after term limits kept the Republican from running again. (AP)

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