Former Trump aide who turned on him after joining The View breaks silence on election result

The View co-host and former Donald Trump aide Alyssa Farah-Griffin has broken her silence after her old boss won a second term.

Ex-White House communications adviser Alyssa Farah-Griffin made the comments early Wednesday, just hours after revealing she voted for Kamala Harris.

Griffin admitted that the then-upcoming results were not what she “personally wanted” and said she was grateful to be “living in a democracy.”

The outspoken Republican added that she hopes the new administration will be more aggressive in its efforts to free Hamas hostages, going so far as to congratulate her old boss.

Within half an hour, publications would officially call the election – after a dominant display in which Trump left behind decisive states such as Pennsylvania.

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“Not the results I personally wanted, but I am grateful to live in a democracy and respect the outcome,” Farah-Griffin, 35, wrote in a message to X.

“Congratulations to the Trump-Vance team.

“One bright spot: I am hopeful that the administrator will be aggressive in his efforts to free American hostages held in captivity by Hamas.”

Hours earlier, the former Trump staffer used her platform on Tuesday’s show to reveal how she switched sides and voted Democratic for the first time. [her] life’ – still hopeful for a Harris.

“Four years ago today, on election night, I was at the White House with Donald Trump,” she told her fellow panelists.

“I thought he deserved to lose that night [in 2020]at that moment.

“I didn’t think he fought to win the election, but I thought over the next four years the Republican Party would rebuild and become something I could believe in and turn the page on Donald Trump,” she continued, before adding, “and it didn’t.

“So this weekend, on Saturday, I voted for a Democrat for the first time in my life. I voted for Kamala Harris,

She quickly added that she considers her vote “loaned to Harris” and that she is “concerned about the direction” [Trump] will take this land.

“I take my own warning seriously,” she said, before addressing her thoughts on the three years she served under him.

“What I saw is very real,” said the former press secretary to then-Vice President Mike Pence.

“I’m a Christian, I’m an American and I’m a Republican – in that order. And I need someone who shares my values.

“I need someone who is kind and decent and who will bring this country together,” she continued.

Still, she, an LA native, added of Harris: “I don’t agree with a lot of her policies, [but] we can criticize those on the road.

‘Today is about a better future.

“And I think the best thing for the country and the future of the Republican Party is that Donald Trump loses and Kamala Harris is elected,” she concluded – after a glowing reception from her fellow panelists.

The confession came weeks after Griffin and co. interviewed Harris on The View, and years after she quit her White House gig in December 2020.

The reason for this, she has said, was due to discomfort “with the lies about the election,” as she was one of several Trump staffers who had begged White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to let Trump clear the crowd. have it recalled. January 6.

While she called the day a “horrific” day, she added, “That was just kind of a summary of who Donald Trump, the man, is.”

“He is the lowest moral character I have ever worked for,” she continued.

“The first term you had people like Vice President Pence there – an imperfect actor – but someone who I honestly think tried to guide him in the right way and keep him focused and within the bounds of the Constitution,” he said. them about what to expect from a president. Trump’s second term.

She said these kinds of people would not be present in Round No. 2, paving the way for a different kind of presidency.

“They don’t want Ronald Reagan Republicans, they want Tucker Carlson Republicans, so buckle up, guys,” Griffin explained, having served as Trump’s special assistant from 2017 to 2019.

In 2021, she joined CNN as a political contributor, while also making several guest appearances on The View.

This continued throughout 2021 and into 2022 until she became a permanent host – joined by longtime talker Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines and Ana Navarro.

During her first year as host, she told fellow members how members of her family boycotted her wedding to husband Justin Griffin in 2020 over their differences with Trump but held the ceremony anyway.

She won a Daytime Emmy earlier this year for her work on the View and remains an outspoken critic of the newly elected president.