Alyssa Farah Griffin is mounting nan grounds straight. On this morning’s section of The View, the erstwhile White House staffer made it large and clear that she did not constitute “secret emotion letters” to her erstwhile leader Donald Trump.
Before she joined The View as nan Republican co-host successful 2022, Griffin served arsenic nan White House head of strategical communications and Assistant to nan President. Since leaving nan Trump management successful 2020, she has been publically informing voters of nan threat nan erstwhile president poses to democracy.
Today’s section of The View was nary different, pinch longtime moderator Whoopi Goldberg hitting backmost astatine false claims Joe Rogan made astir Trump’s 2011 quality connected nan daytime talk show. But earlier nan conception concluded, Griffin chimed successful pinch 1 much correction.
“I usually don’t respond to him erstwhile he comes aft me, it feels for illustration punching down,” she said. “But he keeps lying astir maine and I do want to correct this.”
According to Griffin, Trump “keeps referring” to immoderate benignant of “secret emotion letters” she allegedly wrote him erstwhile she worked for his administration.
“I don’t constitute emotion letters to dictators aliases aspiring dictators for illustration Trump did to Kim Jong Un,” Griffin said. “The only missive I ever wrote him was a nationalist resignation missive that was directed toward nan Trump management speaking astir my time.”
“Otherwise, CNN fact-checks — he lied astir my title and immoderate different things,” she continued. “He’s intelligibly very focused connected this show because we support calling him retired and we’re gonna support doing it.”
This wasn’t nan first clip nan co-host was forced to fact-check Trump. During nan Oct. 16 section of The View, Griffin accused him of “rewriting” history aft he referred to Jan. 6 arsenic a “peaceful transportation of power.”
“There has been a full rewriting and white-washing of Jan. 6,” Griffin said. “I retrieve nan days afterward, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell [all said], ‘I’m done pinch him, we’re done pinch this guy, he should beryllium impeached, we should invoke nan 25th amendment.’”
She added, “They each knew what they saw and they wholly changed their tune erstwhile Donald Trump showed that he’s still sewage immoderate powerfulness and he’s still sewage immoderate support, because it was much politically advantageous to them.”
The View airs connected weekdays astatine 11/10c connected ABC.