Mitt Romney Shares Very Real Reason He Fears Trump’s ‘Revenge’ Tour

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has anxious about his family members’ security ought to Donald Trump win the election and go on his promised “revenge” tour in opposition to political foes, his biographer McKay Coppins instructed CNN on Wednesday.

“Mitt Romney is aware of that he could be on that enemies listing. He’s anxious about defending his household. He stated, ‘You recognize, I’ve 25 grandkids, how do you shield 25 grandkids?’” stated Coppins, creator of the 2023 guide “Romney: A Reckoning.”

Coppins added that he believes Romney’s considerations over a doable Trump win are partially as a consequence of not desirous to “set himself up as a martyr.”

“I believe he additionally has comprehensible safety considerations about speaking about these things an excessive amount of in public,” Coppins stated of the 2012 GOP presidential candidate.

“However as soon as I did get him speaking, it was clear that he had thought by way of the ramifications of a president being reelected who has stated that he’ll use the workplace to go to retribution, revenge on his political enemies.”

Romney, a longtime critic of the present GOP nominee, instructed Coppins in a current interview for The Atlantic that he’d take Trump “at his word” over his vow to go after political enemies.

Trump, who pledged to be a dictator on “day one” of a doable second time period, took to his Truth Social platform earlier this month to threaten to jail foes “concerned in unscrupulous conduct” ought to he win the election in November.

Romney has but to make an endorsement within the 2024 race though he’s beforehand declared that he would “absolutely not” solid his vote for Trump.

Coppins, earlier within the interview with host Jake Tapper, stated a doable Trump win was “not one thing” that Romney needed to speak about, including that he’s talked with the senator for 2 years.

“He was often very candid with me… And I requested him about it and he didn’t wish to go there at first,” Coppins stated.

Coppins later emphasised to CNN that the safety of Romney’s grandchildren is a “actual concern” for the senator.

“And I believe it’s a reasonably stark reminder of the place we’re as a rustic, that the 2012 Republican presidential nominee is so anxious afraid about what it might imply for his private security, his household security, if the present Republican nominee wins,” Coppins stated.