Alyssa Farah Griffin reveals Mark Meadows told her Trump wasn't leaving the White House

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Alyssa Farah Griffin reveals Mark Meadows told her Trump wasn't leaving the White House
Alyssa Farah Griffin from "The View" (Photo: Screen capture)

"The View's" Alyssa Farah Griffin confirmed Tuesday that she was told while working as a White House aide that Donald Trump wasn't going to leave after 2020.

Trump's former lawyer Jenna Ellis revealed in an interview to the Fulton County district attorney's office — revealed by ABC News Monday — that an excited White House aide had told her that they weren't leaving on Jan. 20 when Joe Biden was inaugurated.

"The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances," social media staffer Dan Scavino reportedly said. “We are just going to stay in power.”

Talking about it on "The View" Tuesday Farah Griffin, who worked as a communications director under Trump, told the co-hosts, "But what is wild about this [Jenna Ellis] clip is the language model, something nearly identical to that which White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said to me on Dec. 3rd of 2020.

"I'd gone into his office to say that I was going to resign. I didn't agree with what we were saying about the election result of the election being stolen. And he said, 'Wait, what if I can tell you that we're not leaving office?'"

It's a timeline that adds to details that Ellis revealed to the Fulton County prosecutors. In her case, a key date shows Trump was still refusing to leave even after Dec. 11, when he'd lost appeals over the election result at the Supreme Court.

Farah Griffin said that she reported Meadows' comment to federal investigators and the House Select Committee that looked into 2020 and Jan. 6.

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"This proves what she's saying, that the upper tier of the White House was actually trying to unlawfully and unconstitutionally hold on to power," she continued. "I think Georgia has Donald Trump in a really tight spot. That's the hardest one, I think, for him to get out of. But here's what I would say is this: We don't even need to think about just what he did last time around. The agenda he's talking about for 2024 is scary enough."

She cited Trump's pledge to put people in "camps" and carry out revenge on four-star generals and those he sees as having wronged him.

See her comments in the video below or at the link here.


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Trump casually lays blame for ‘explosions’ across Russia on Ukraine to Zelenskyy’s face

Standing alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of their high-stakes meeting Sunday, President Donald Trump casually laid blame for “explosions in various parts of Russia” on Ukraine, presumably including a recent bombing in Moscow that killed two police officers and a bystander.

Standing next to Zelenskyy at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump was asked by a reporter whether he thought President Vladimir Putin was “serious” about ending the Russo-Ukrainian war given the recent Russian attacks on Ukraine.

“I could say that I believe Ukraine has made some very strong attacks also – I don't say that negatively, I think you probably have to,” Trump pushed back.

“Now, he hasn't told me [this], but there have been some explosions in various parts of Russia and it looks to me like... I don't know, I don't think it came from the Congo, I don't think it came from the United States of America, it possibly came from Ukraine. But I haven't asked that question – maybe I won't bother asking!”

Russian officials have blamed Ukraine for a a number of assassinations of Russian public figures and military officers, some of which Ukraine has denied, such as a drone attack that appeared to target Putin directly.

Ukrainian did not officially claim responsibility for the recent bombing in Moscow on Christmas Eve, though Ukrainian officials speaking on the condition of anonymity did confirm to the Associated Press that Ukraine has helped carry out the attack.

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'What did the FBI have on Trump?' Watergate prosecutor makes bombshell claim about Epstein

Donald Trump has been trying to stall the release of the Epstein files because of the bombshell revelation the documents are hiding, according to Watergate lawyer Nick Ackerman.

Ackerman, who has often commented on Trump's legal matters, on Sunday flagged "a key email from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate," in addition to "statements by Trump ally House Speaker Mike Johnson," which together purportedly show "it is highly likely that Trump was a confidential FBI informant in the first sex trafficking investigation into Epstein and his partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell."

"The press has totally overlooked the significance of this email," Ackerman said.

The former prosecutor went on to highlight the email from Epstein in which he suggests he's 75% sure Trump is an informant.

"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump," according to Epstein.

"Let’s connect the dots to what else we now know," Ackerman wrote. "Epstein authored this email after the conclusion of the investigations by the State of Florida and the FBI into his conduct with underage girls, and after Epstein had served his overly lenient sentence. The second federal investigation had not yet begun, but victims began filing civil lawsuits against him, and Epstein was a registered sex offender."

After analyzing the emails in their chronological context, he noted that the next clue came from Mike Johnson.

"What nails it is the September 5, 2025, statement by House Speaker Mike Johnson to reporters that what Epstein did was an 'unspeakable evil' and that Donald Trump 'was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down,' referring to Epstein’s criminal activities," Ackerman wrote. "Johnson said that he and Trump had 'spoken about this many times' 'as recently as twenty-four hours ago.'"

Ackerman added, "Within days, Johnson, who is in regular contact with Trump, backtracked from his statement without a coherent or valid explanation. His excuse was that he might not have used the 'right word.' Really!! Unsurprisingly, the White House denied that Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case, saying Johnson’s original description was not correct."

Then Ackerman tied it all together, including potential motives.

"Clearly, Trump does not want it publicly known that he was an FBI informant. From my experience as a prosecutor, the principal way a person becomes a confidential informant is when the FBI uses a person’s involvement in criminal activity to turn the individual into an informant to avoid prosecution," according to Ackerman. "In the case of Trump, that does not necessarily mean the criminal leverage was Trump’s involvement with Epstein’s sex trafficking. It could have been something else. If so, what did the FBI have on Trump? The big question — will future productions of DOJ’s Epstein files reveal Trump’s involvement as an FBI informant against Epstein? It certainly should."

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‘This is historic’: Ex-GOP lawmaker says Republicans barreling toward ‘complete disaster’

Former GOP congressman David Jolly painted a bleak picture for Republicans heading into the 2026 midterm elections during an appearance Sunday on MS NOW, warning that his former party was “heading toward complete disaster” of a “historic” electoral defeat.

“A year is a very long time, things could be very different next year, but where we sit today, Republicans are heading toward a complete disaster, a collapse, a 2006-type blue wave or the inverse of the 1994 red wave,” Jolly said. “I mean, this is historic, and there's a very fundamental reason why.”

Republicans face an uphill battle heading into the midterm elections, with recent analyses showing the GOP well “on track to lose” its congressional majorities. President Donald Trump’s own plummeting approval ratings – which this month reached lows rivaling “the lowest readings from his first term” – have played a significant role in dragging the entire party down, experts have said.

Specifically, Jolly said that while the policies pushed by the Trump administration and GOP lawmakers have been “incredibly ineffective,” what really hurt Republicans’ electoral chances next year was their rhetoric.

“Voters are telling us and they're telling Republicans what their problems are; Donald Trump and the Republicans are telling voters they're wrong,” Jolly said.

“If they just will support a man who wants marble armrests at the Kennedy Center, a gilded White House and a new ballroom so that he can throw parties with world leaders, if [voters] will just support him and those endeavors, their lives will be better? Republicans are heading toward disaster, and right now, they deserve it.”

Jolly was a Republican congressman representing Florida from 2014 to 2017 before leaving office, and later, leaving the Republican Party. Long an outspoken critic of Trump, Jolly registered as a Democrat earlier this year in his bid for Florida governor.

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