Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House communications director underneath Donald Trump, stated a stunning courtroom hypothetical about presidents ordering folks killed is probably not so hypothetical in relation to her former boss.
Attorneys for Trump this week argued that presidential immunity means a president can’t be prosecuted until impeached and convicted first ― even in a case similar to ordering the assassination of a political rival.
Farah Griffin, now a co-host of “The View,” known as that declare “scary” in relation to Trump.
“The problem is with Trump this isn’t super outside of the realm of possibility that we would be in a scenario like that,” she stated on Wednesday’s present, then elaborated:
“When he was told his VP had to be evacuated from the Capitol for his own safety, he said, basically, ‘So what?’ Then he said he deserved it when there were ‘Hang Mike Pence’ signs. He alluded to Gen. Milley should be executed. He, in a meeting I was in in the Oval Office with a dozen other staffers, said that an aide should be executed for leaking something negative about him.”
“So this is a man who will push kind of every boundary that’s out there,” she stated.
Farah Griffin went into extra element in regards to the Oval Office incident throughout an episode of “The View” that aired final month.
“Right before I resigned, I was in an Oval Office meeting with a dozen other staffers, and somebody had, he thinks, leaked a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protests,” she stated. “And he said, ‘Whoever did that should be executed.’”
That second was additionally described in Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender’s 2021 e book, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election.”
