"The View's" Alyssa Farah Griffin was name-checked by former President Donald Trump in a wide-ranging Fox interview Monday night with Bret Baier. Among the accusations were that she "changed her view" of him to score a spot on the show.
"I was offended for you," said co-host Sara Haines to Griffin. "Let me remind him the second he started denying the election was when Alyssa left. It wasn't a year and a half later with her view highly changed until she came to the show."
"Thank you for that," Griffin said. "That was the most striking part to me in that interview. I worked with many of those people, many of us have spoken out against him. I say, not to you ladies and you in the audience, but folks at home: believe those of us who were in. I was in more Oval Office meetings with him than I can count. I've briefed him in his cabin on Air Force One. He's unfit for office. You should believe us because we saw it."
Another striking thing about the interview is that he continues to incriminate himself publicly, she said.
Joy Behar asked if Griffin thought she could "fix" Trump after his "Access Hollywood" tape and attacks on Gold Star families.
"That you could make it better?" asked Sunny Hostin.
"Yes," Griffin confessed. "I don't know if I was naive or maybe it was hubris at the time. It's not one or the other; it's a weird mix of both. You thought you could make him better, convince him what's right and what's wrong. I've told the story before, but to me, it's most striking during George Floyd, after his murder, and the social justice protest that summer. I was trying to get him to walk back a statement he made about saying, 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts.' I was like, surely that's not what you mean. No one thinks we should be shooting people in the public square. And he essentially said, 'No, that's what I mean. We're not walking it back.' That was a moment when I was like, oh, this is not a fixable individual."
She said that she almost resigned at that moment.
Hostin later asked if she thought Trump would ever take a plea deal, and Griffin said no, that an admission of guilt would be like admitting he lost the election.
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