Trump loyalist Matt Schlapp claimed he would fear for Sen. Mitt Romney’s safety if the senator attended this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference .
Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, talked about how the Utah Republican was “formally not invited” to attend the CPAC event during a recent interview on Full Court Press. He predicted Romney would not receive a warm welcome because of the senator’s vote to convict President Trump during the Senate impeachment trial.
“We won’t credential him as a conservative. I suppose if he wants to come as a nonconservative and debate an issue with us, maybe in the future we would have him come,” Schlapp said. “This year, I’d actually be afraid for his physical safety; people are so mad at him.”
Schlapp argued that Romney should not be a part of the conference because he “lied so continuously to conservatives.” He added, “He’s a ‘use-em-and-lose-em’ kind of guy. When he needed a conservative like Donald Trump to endorse him in his Senate primary last time, he wanted him in. But then, when he gets the Senate job, he wants to distance himself from Trump.”
Romney has attended CPAC in the past, including in 2012, when he was the Republican Party’s nominee for president. Trump has been a staple at the conference over the past several years. He is set to deliver remarks at the conference later this month.
Schlapp is the husband of Mercedes Schlapp, who worked as Trump’s White House director of strategic communications before joining the president’s reelection campaign last year.
