Alyssa Farah Griffin says she ‘got threats’ for working at White House

Alyssa Farah Griffin frankly speaks of the “threats” she received following working for Donald Trump during her first presidential mandate.

The view COHOST – which occupied a series of roles from the White House from 2017 to 2020 – spoke of the attacks that she personally faced in the context of a broader discussion on the doctor of Joe Biden, Kevin O’Connor, pleading the fifth in an interview with the house’s surveillance committee to all questions on the former president, citing the privilege of the doctor.

“I also mean that I also have threats from right and left,” said Griffin. “I also had people who said that I was unfair to have entered because I was talking about Trump. I had people on the left, attacking myself that I had never worked there. This is the work for which you register when you manage to work in the highest office in the country. ”

His other cohosts, however, have not shared this same point of view. “This is why I am not asked to do this,” said Sara Haines, “because I sat there and I would be difficult because they were even asking.”

Griffin worked as a press secretary of former vice-president Mike Pence and as a special assistant from Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019. She was then press secretary of the Ministry of Defense and, later, Director of Strategic Communications for the White House before finally resigning in 2020.

Earlier in the segment, the Republican Panelist explained that it was not “surprised” that O’Connor chose to plead the fifth of his testimony, adding: “There are Hipaa reasons, there are reasons why he will not speak who is the confidentiality of the doctor’s patients”.

However, she criticized her decision to skip several questions about Biden who were linked to the presidency, noting that the choice not to answer questions made people even more curious.

“As a former government official, I testified before the Congress and the Ministry of Justice-there was never a time when I thought of pleading the fifth because the taxpayers paid my salary,” she said. “If they wanted an answer to a question about what I saw in government, I felt that it was my duty [to answer them]. “”

Griffin admitted that everyone lived through a very “polarized and crazy [sic] moment “in American politics.

“I have no doubt that there is a folded support for this committee,” she said, “but if you believe in institutions, and if you think this country is older than the three and a half years in which we live, then you should introduce yourself, you must answer questions because the taxpayer has paid your salary.”

She continued: “Joe Biden did not pay her salary. And they have the right to know the answer to fundamental questions such as “an unadumple family official or member of the president’s functions?” This is a really easy question to answer. »»

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