Trump wanted staffer 'executed' for leaking he rushed to bunker during protest: ex-aide

"The View's" Alyssa Farah Griffin on Thursday briefly mentioned some of the rage that Donald Trump has shown behind closed doors — and how it endangers the United States.

The co-hosts were blasting Republicans for being willing to call Trump a lunatic, but still being willing to vote for him.

Joy Behar brought up former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and the bombshell revelations in her recently released book, "Oath and Honor." Cheney has made it clear that she believes Trump cannot be allowed to be president again because he's a danger to the country. But, The View hosts said, Republican partisans who agree are unwilling to vote for a Democrat.

"One thing she said, it's not just him, it's his enablers," said Behar. "The problem arises because they refuse to impeach him, and Liz Cheney said if it was an anonymous vote they probably would have impeached him, but they're scared to lose their job, and in some cases, there's political violence.

"You can't trust that the Republican Party would go against him if he gets the nomination. Case in point, your friend, Chris Sununu, New Hampshire governor. He suggested he'd vote for Trump if he was the nominee. Why? Because he said, I'm a Republican. Party before country, see? And he said, this is a guy who called Trump bleeping crazy and suggested he should be in a mental institution. That's the Republican Party right now."

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But it was Griffin who pulled the political fire alarm, describing the dangers a second Trump administration presents.

"I will not vote for Donald Trump," she said. "And I think that should be a pretty easy thing to say. If you thought the first term of Trump was bad, buckle up. Liz Cheney said we're sleepwalking into dictatorship. I say we're careening into it. Donald Trump told us what to expect in a second term and we need to listen to it."

In the first term, she explained that Trump's worst acts and instincts were stopped due to two major things: First, he had no idea how the federal government worked. Second, he had to get reelected.

"Those things are not the case in a second election," she explained. "He knows how to weaponize the federal government. He's planning to fire civil servants with expertise — non-partisan people — and staff the government with loyalists."

She explained that Trump "has an enemies list, which includes the media."

"He came after MSNBC, he will truly go after the media in a second term," Griffin continued. "And we can't take him lightly, because I can tell you right now — before I resigned, I was in an Oval Office meeting with a dozen other staffers. And somebody had, he thought, leaked a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protests, and he said that the person who did that should be executed.

"He's used that terminology with Gen. [Mark] Milley. I cannot set off enough alarm bells about how dangerous he is and that he must be stopped at all costs."

The White House later claimed that Trump wasn't being rushed to the bunker, he was just "inspecting" it.

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