Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has worried about his loved ones’ safety should Donald Trump win the election and go on his promised “revenge” tour against political foes, his biographer McKay Coppins told CNN on Wednesday.
“Mitt Romney knows that he would be on that enemies list. He’s worried about protecting his family. He said, ‘You know, I have 25 grandkids, how do you protect 25 grandkids?’” said Coppins, author of the 2023 book “Romney: A Reckoning.”
Coppins added that he believes Romney’s concerns over a possible Trump win are partially due to not wanting to “set himself up as a martyr.”
“I think he also has understandable security concerns about talking about this stuff too much in public,” Coppins said of the 2012 GOP presidential candidate.
“But once I did get him talking, it was clear that he had thought through the ramifications of a president being reelected who has said that he will use the office to visit retribution, revenge on his political…