“The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White Home communications director underneath Donald Trump, mentioned he as soon as threatened to have a member of his personal workers executed.
“Proper earlier than I resigned, I used to be in an Oval Workplace assembly with a dozen different staffers, and someone had, he thinks, leaked a narrative about him going to the bunker through the George Floyd protests,” she mentioned on Tuesday’s broadcast. “And he mentioned, ‘Whoever did that ought to be executed.’”
Trump was rushed to a bunker as protests erupted close to the White Home over relentless circumstances of police brutality in opposition to Black victims that too usually end in deaths, together with the Could, 25, 2020, police killing of Floyd in Minneapolis.
When phrase obtained out of the bunker transfer, Trump insisted he was solely “inspecting” the bunker, a declare that was extensively mocked.
The anecdote on “The View” confirms an incident first reported by Wall Avenue Journal reporter Michael Bender in his 2021 guide, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election.”
“Trump boiled over concerning the bunker story as quickly as they arrived and shouted at them to smoke out whoever had leaked it. It was probably the most upset some aides had ever seen the president,” Bender wrote.
“Whoever did that, they need to be charged with treason!” Trump reportedly yelled. “They need to be executed!”
A spokesperson for Trump on the time denied that he needed the staffer executed.
However as Farah Griffin famous on “The View” on Tuesday, Trump has made related threats publicly. Earlier this yr, Trump prompt that Gen. Mark Milley ― who on the time was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees ― ought to be executed.
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