Former fifth columnists in the first Donald Trump administration claim they are considering fleeing the country if he is reelected.
Trump officials turned critics, including Alexander Vindman, who assisted the failed first impeachment of the former president, and inveterate war hawk John Bolton, among others, have suggested they could be persecuted under a second Trump administration.
Former White House press secretary and drunk driver Stephanie Grisham, who turned on Trump after January 6th, said the prospect of his reelection is “terrifying” and that she has been saving money to move to a country with no extradition treaty with the U.S.
She indicated that even her mother suggested she is being unreasonable, but said of the former president: “I’m like, ‘OK, Mom. You don’t know him.’”
“I know of many prominent ‘never Trump’ advocates, including many Republicans, who are considering their options to leave the country were Trump to win in November,” added Mark Zaid, the lawyer who represented the so-called whistleblower who triggered the first impeachment of the former president in the Nancy Pelosi-led House of Representatives.
Famously, Trump did not attempt to have 2016 rival Hillary Clinton prosecuted after his inauguration in 2017, despite suggesting he might do so on the campaign trail.
He has himself been hit with dozens of indictments by the Joe Biden-controlled Justice Department and multiple Democrat state attorneys general and district attorneys, however.
Earlier this week, he explained his “revenge will be a success” if he returns to the White House.