McKay Coppins: “Romney had made this prediction before, telling anyone who would listen in the run-up to the 2020 election that he thought Trump was going to get a second term. He’d even bet one of his sons his prized 1985 BMW that Biden would lose. But back then, he’d told me, it was a kind of psychological game he played with himself—predicting the outcome he most dreaded as a form of inoculation.”
“This time felt different. Trump had repeatedly pledged to use the Justice Department and the FBI to go after his political enemies if reelected. ‘I am your retribution,’ he enjoyed telling his crowds. Romney knew that he was likely to appear on any enemies list kept by the former president, and he’d privately mused to friends that it might be time for him and his wife, Ann, to consider moving abroad…”
“But when I asked Romney, in the spring, what a Trump reelection would mean for him and his family, he was careful at first.”
Said Romney: “I don’t know the answer to that… the good news is I haven’t had an affair with anybody; I don’t have any classified documents; I can’t imagine something I’ve done that would justify an investigation, let alone an indictment.”
Deseret News: If Trump wins, Mitt Romney fears retribution.
