Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said she believes “anger and retaliation” would be his governing principles if former President Trump is re-elected.
Farrah Griffin joins Mediaite’s Aidan McLaughlin Discuss her time She spoke about her role in the Trump administration, her resignation, and her thoughts on what a second Trump term and a new Republican Party might look like.
McLaughlin asked Farrah Griffin, who currently co-hosts “The View,” whether she was serious about the idea that Trump would become some kind of dictator if re-elected.
“I think we need to take him at his word, and I hate to spend my time trying to get into the mind of Donald Trump, but I also think we need to have a little perspective on priorities,” she said.
“Anger and retaliation will be the ruling principles, and I think it will start with the largest deportation program ever,” Farrah Griffin continued.
In the weeks since Trump was convicted in the hush-money case, he and his allies have warned that revenge would be exacted.
She argued that people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would be deported and that it would have a “real chilling effect” on media outlets across the country. Farrah Griffin argued that Trump will drag people into lawsuits and “use the FCC to make it as difficult as possible for people to practice real journalism and speak critically of Trump.”
Farrah Griffin said she wants to be careful not to fall into the “Trump Crazy Syndrome camp,” but also said she doesn’t want to “rule anything out.”
“It’s going to be fundamentally different, at least in this country,” she said.
Farrah Griffin, who resigned from the Trump administration in December 2020, said one of the interesting things about working for Trump was that he made some social issues, like marriage equality, a thing of the past.
She said the former president never really cared about same-sex marriage, but that could be a good thing for the Republican Party, and noted that Trump’s more conservative allies may have a bigger influence on how things go than he does.
“If you look at Clarence Thomas’ rulings after Dobbs, he’s started talking about things like repealing Obergefell, he’s referring to Loving,” Griffin continued. “It’s not something Donald Trump would do, but it’s something that could happen under his jurisdiction. And there are lawsuits being filed by activists and state courts, so it’s more about the direction the country is going in than it is about him directly.”
