Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said former President Trump spoke several times about executing people in White House meetings.
Farah Griffin joined Mediaite’s Aidan McLaughlin to discuss her time in the Trump administration and what she thinks a second Trump term would be like.
McLaughlin asked Farah Griffin, now co-host of “The View,” why she thinks several powerful Republicans, such as former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and former Attorney General Bill Barr, are supporting Trump despite of knowing the destruction he could cause.
“It’s power,” she replied. “I think… power is just one of the most attractive things we have in society.”
Farah Griffin noted an interview Barr gave in April with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, where she asked the former attorney general if he remembered when the former president said the person who leaked information about him had gone to a bunker during the George Floyd protests in 2020 should be carried out.
Barr said he remembers the former president being “very angry about it.” He said he couldn’t remember if Trump specifically called for anyone to be executed, but “wouldn’t dispute it,” although he doubts it was actually carried out. .
Farah Griffin said she was there during the meeting and Trump “openly said that an official who leaked the story should be executed.
“But there were others where he talked about executing people,” she said.
“And I thought, how do you rationalize that this is a suitable person, in common sense, to be president of the United States,” Farah Griffin continued.
She argued that Haley, Barr and other Republicans who have previously criticized Trump but have now moved to support his presidential campaign against President Biden are “reading the tea leaves.”
“They know there is a very real chance he will be president again, and there is not much glory or victory in being right but being on the wrong side of Trump,” she said. “I think ultimately that’s what matters.”
Farah Griffin said she really wanted to root for Haley, but found it “pathetic” that she supported Trump in mid-May after suspending her own presidential bid. She knows she shouldn’t do it, said Farah Griffin.
She continued, noting that nearly every Republican who has run for president, plus former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) and likely former President George Bush, has denounced Trump.
“Everyone we trust, who has reached the level of seriousness that they could see in the Oval Office, says ‘Oh, no, no, this guy shouldn’t be in the Oval Office,’” she said.
The Hill has reached out to Trump’s team for comment.
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