All posts tagged "Alyssa Farah Griffin"

The View's Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served in the first Trump administration, called the current Department of Justice explanation of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, "very sketchy."

The Department of Justice released a memo this week "concluding that 'no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted' in the investigation" of the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender," according to The New York Times.

Furthermore, the memo concluded that Epstein, a former associate of Donald Trump's, died by suicide in his Manhattan cell in 2019, despite conspiracy theories claiming he was murdered....

Conservative writer Charlie Sykes claimed in a new article that President Donald Trump has been so unnerved by the Iran scandal fueled by his own administration's claims that he can focus on nothing else.

So far, only one of 17 intelligence agencies released reports on the possible effects of last weekend's bombing, yet the Trump administration continues to call it a raging success. When the press has questioned exactly how Trump knows Iran's nuclear capabilities have been wiped out, the president has been going ballistic.

At Wednesday's NATO summit press conference at The Hague, Trump claimed The New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC were out to disparage him and the brave men and women who defend the country....

Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served in the first Trump administration, had a warning to Defense secretary Pete Hegseth and other leaders to back off their attacks on the public for wanting more information on the Iran attacks.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed the U.S. "obliterated" the Iranian nuclear facilities in last weekend's bombings, despite a lack of evidence. Thursday, Hegseth gave what CNN anchor Sara Sidner called an "extraordinary" press conference, where he accused the media of "spinning" a preliminary report "to try to cause doubt and manipulate the...public mind, over whether or not our brave pilots were successful."

Griffin told CNN that Hegseth's press conference was performative in order to please Trump, who staged his own attack on the media at Wednesday's NATO summit....

A former staffer of Donald Trump's White House laid into her old boss's decision to film a TikTok video attacking her political opponent in a section of Arlington National Cemetery where campaign photos and videos are barred.

Trump's TikTok account posted a video showing him smiling and giving a thumbs-up in Section 60 of the cemetery as he attacked the Biden administration's handling of the Afghanistan exit. The section is reserved for military members who died after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Alyssa Farah Griffin told panelists on CNN's "NewsNight" on Wednesday night she did a number of events with former Vice President Mike Pence at the cemetery and noted there are processes and protocols that go into such visits....

Former President Donald Trump has raised speculation he could try to swap out Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), plagued as he is by controversy for his comments about childless women, for conspiracy theorist and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate — even though there is no clear legal mechanism that would allow him to do so.

Speaking to CNN on Tuesday evening, former Trump White House communications chief Alyssa Farah Griffin thinks this is entirely plausible.

"[Democratic strategist] Paul Begala was saying, Alyssa, that Trump would get rid of J.D. Vance, and ... [put] RFK Jr. on the ticket," said anchor Erin Burnett. "Can I just ask you, Alyssa, knowing Trump as you do ... at this point, do you think he would ever dump J.D. Vance?"...

Former President Donald Trump's bizarre press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday was a desperate attempt to force the media's focus off Vice President Kamala Harris and back onto himself, argued former Trump administration communications official Alyssa Farah Griffin on CNN.

The problem is, she added, it wasn't the kind of attention that benefits him.

"We've seen Trump do this before, arrange a news conference when he doesn't like the way the news cycle is going," said anchor Kaitlan Collins. "But he is very clearly trying to get it back now from Harris, from her crowd sizes, from the momentum she's seeing. He was claiming there's only 1,500 people at her rally. It was closer to 15,000. What did you see in that press conference today?"...