Former Donald Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin thinks that the reelected president is hurting himself by welcoming racist staff into the administration.
Speaking on "The View" Monday, the panel of co-hosts attacked a 25-year-old Elon Musk staffer who admitted in past social media posts that he was racist. However, another person who was fired during the previous Trump administration for attending a white nationalist event — Darren Beattie — was brought back to be acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, she pointed out.
Ana Navarro, a Republican communications strategist and Never Trumper, rattled off a list of Trump's recent targets.
"What they're signaling is this," she said. "FBI agents who worked on January 6th, bad. DEI employees, bad. DOJ Civil Rights employee, bad. USAID employees who help the poor and sick all over the world, bad.
"But racists are welcome in the Trump administration."
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Griffin said that Vice President J.D. Vance's statements are what struck her because she, too, doesn't "believe in cancel culture. I believe in consequence culture."
"This is different," Griffin continued. "We're trying to gauge if this Trump administration is the same as the first. In the first, somebody who attended a white nationalist rally — and that came to light, he was fired. In this Trump administration, he's a spokesperson for the United States State Department."
She recalled the 2024 election, in which Trump "built a multiracial coalition" of supporters from Black and Latino voters.
"Doubling his numbers with young black men, five points higher with Asian Americans. He seeks to understand those gains he made by having people espousing these hateful, bigoted views associated with him," said Griffin.
