Trump's former aide says ex-president is 'worried that he will end up in jail'

Trump is reportedly terrified of becoming an inmate.

Former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin appeared on CNN to explain why she believes the 45th president is "worried that he will end up in jail."

Griffin was asked to try and make sense of Trump's Christmas outburst where he spitefully took aim at a variety of people, chief among them special counsel Jack Smith.

"Just a merry spirit, a joyful spirit," Griffin quipped. "It is vintage Donald Trump, and he's known for the unhinged holiday rants and then he follows up with a clip of him in "Home Alone II"...it shows that Jack Smith lives in his head in a big way, and he is concerned about the DOJ investigation into the events around Jan. 6th."

What's fueling Trump's run for a second term? For Griffin it's retribution as well as doing everything he can to stay a free man.

"This is the driving force behind the political campaign," she explained. "As much as his campaign advisers would want it to be the economy, jobs, foreign policy — he keeps going back to the fact that he is honestly worried that he is going to end up in jail, and he needs to be elected president to pardon himself."

"So his true colors are showing. He rants at special counsel Jack Smith and then puts a Merry Christmas bow on it with the 'Rot in hell.'"

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Trump, who is facing numerous felony charges — boasts a commanding lead for the 2024 Republican nomination with 61.2% of the vote and only two rivals, Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis barely breaking double digits with a little over 11%.

The former president has pleaded not guilty.

Griffin fears if Trump keeps coasting to the GOP presidential nomination, he would lose with his unsparing agenda.

"...we are very much careening into running somebody who will likely lose head-to-head to Joe Biden only because he cannot get out of his own way, and the messaging and the rhetoric and the extremist policies, and we are not litigating a lot of what he has laid out for the second term agenda, but he is literally talking about internment camps, mass deportation and punishing former staffers and that is un-American, and not going to be appealing to a second term."

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