CNN’s Jake Tapper Presses Mitt Romney About Trump Seeking Revenge: ‘Are You Worried’ He’ll Go After You Or ‘Members of Your Family?’
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Sunday if he feared becoming a target of retribution if President-elect Donald Trump weaponized the government after taking office next month.
Romney, whose public beefs with Trump are widely known, argued that he had lived a clean life and that he felt he had nothing to worry about.
On CNN’s State of the Union, Tapper noted Trump had been critical of the eight members of the House select committee who investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol attack – going as far as to assert they belong in jail.
“Trump has made it clear that he wants to go after his political opponents,” Tapper said. “He’s talking about members of the January 6th committee should go to jail. Are you worried at all about being a target for retribution, you or members of your family?” Romney replied:
No, actually, I’ve been pretty clean throughout my life. I’m not particularly worried about criminal investigations, and I don’t know how much, by the way, of what the president says is hyperbole, because there was a lot of this person not to be jailed and that person ought to be jailed. That was said during the last two campaigns. But I think President Trump is likely to try and focus on the future. People who’ve committed crimes, I’m sure, will be prosecuted, but I think that’s few and far between.
Elsewhere in the interview, Romney congratulated Trump on winning the election, which he said was something he was unable to do as the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee.
Romney became the only senator in US history to vote to convict a president from his own political party in February 2020 when he sided with Democrats to disqualify Trump from the White House following his second impeachment trial.
“Corrupting an election to keep one’s self in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one’s oath of office that I can imagine,” Romney said.
Watch above via CNN.
