Appearing on CNN's New Day on Tuesday morning, former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham issued a grave warning about a potential second Donald Trump administration.
During a discussion about her new tell-all book, "I'll Take Your Questions Now," CNN co-host John Berman asked Grisham, "What is the message you want to send about where you think the country is now, and the threat you think the former president poses?"
"I think the country right now has so much hatred, and I think that the (former) president likes that," Grisham responded. "I think he likes to control people's thoughts that way. He views these people as fighters, and fighting for him, and then he just covers it up with words like 'patriots,' but they're not patriots. They're out there destroying our country."
Grisham explained that after resigning in the wake of the Capitol insurrection, she "went far away to Middle America" to "decompress" and "deprogram" — but watched the remainder of the Trump presidency unfold from afar.
"The fact that he is pushing this election lie is scary to me, and the fact that he's the frontrunner right now, if he were to run for office, is scary to me," Grisham said. "And that's because, if he gets into office, he doesn't run for re-election again. He'll be able to do whatever he wants, and we all know, there's going to be retribution, there's going revenge. I guarantee there will be very draconian policies, and they're not going to care, because they don't have to run for re-election again.
"And if people think that the people in (the first) Trump White House were bad perhaps, I have a feeling the 1/6 crowd might be working in the White House in 2024, or the Sidney Powells, or the Rudy Giulianis," Grisham added. "I think people left and right are going to get pardoned. The amount of things, knowing what I know, that could happen, it scares me."
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