Former Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin, who now serves as a co-host on ABC’s The View, admitted that she is “genuinely afraid” of a second presidential term for her old boss Donald Trump.
Griffin served as the White House director of strategic communications in the Trump Administration and Assistant to the President during Donald’s long, tumultuous term in the White House. She also has a work history of serving under several notable Conservative names, such as former Vice President Mike Pence, ex-Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and controversial Republican House Rep. Jim Jordan. Griffin resigned from her position in the Trump Administration 3 1/2 years into Trump’s term, just weeks before a mob of Donald’s most violent supporters would infamously storm the Capitol building.
The former Trump WH staffer attempted to remain supportive of her former boss in the direct aftermath of her resignation, but that attempt was ultimately short-lived as she witnessed all that Trump did in the wake of his loss and has since morphed into a staunch MAGA critic.
Now, she says she truly fears what the future holds if Donald Trump successfully returns to the White House in 2024.
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“To be completely honest, I’m genuinely afraid of him,” Griffin admitted during an episode of the popular ABC talk show. “I think to underscore that, as someone who once worked for him, knows him personally, I fear him being in office. This is a man who loves retaliation. This is a man, I sat in the Oval Office and once said, it was after it was leaked to the New York Times that he was taken to the bunker during the social justice protests in summer 2020. He said, ‘The person who did that should be executed — this is treason.’ This is a person who will weaponize any power that he has to go after anyone that has slighted him and has done something against him.”
“He’s more dangerous in a second term, God forbid,” the former Trump staffer went on to add of her old boss. “In his first term, his worst instincts were usually stifled by people being, like, ‘You’ve got to win a second term, you’ve got to win a second term.’ The second term, all belts are off — he’ll do whatever he wants.”
Co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin were of the opinion that the mountain of investigations and legal peril that Trump is currently facing will ultimately drag down any chances he may have had at a successful, 3rd consecutive try for the White House.
Griffin isn’t so confident.
“That’s why I don’t why my party, after seven years, we’re still engaging in this exercise,” Griffin said. “He’s going to burn the GOP to the ground.”
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