The View co-host and former White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin says she once urged former Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump‘s choice for attorney general, to not show “conspiracy theories” to the president.
“I don’t know Matt Gaetz personally, my only experience with him came back to mind when this was announced,” Griffin said during Thursday’s episode. “I was standing in the outer Ovals, the room outside of the Oval Office, with Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan. Matt Gaetz was holding a folder, he was about to go meet with then-President Trump.”
Griffin said she asked him about the contents of the folder.
“He shows me these printed out conspiracy theories that Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe and former congressman had murdered his staffer,” Griffin claimed on the show. “I said, ‘Please do not show these to the President of the United States.’”
“Then, days ensued of Donald Trump tweeting false, malicious claims about Joe Scarborough. The family of the woman who died — there was no foul play, it was a tragedy — begged Twitter and the White House to take it down, so that speaks to his character, integrity, and judgment,” Griffin alleged about Gaetz.
She added, “Donald Trump absolutely has a constitutional right to appoint members of his Cabinet and the Senate has the right to advise and consent.”
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“Matt Gaetz is a widely disliked person even by his colleagues. There may be political will to stop him. I want to mention he is not the only scary person who was nominated yesterday,” Griffin claimed as she took aim at Trump’s pick of Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence by referencing claims by Hillary Clinton that she was a “Russian asset.”
Griffin implored Senate Republicans to “muster the political will to block both of these because they are not good for the country.”