Former White House staffer says Trump called for leaker to be executed

[Jilly_in_VA]

Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin has disclosed that Donald Trump repeatedly mused out loud about executing people at several meetings while she worked for him during his presidency.

Griffin’s claim, which she made in a podcast recording with Mediaite released on Friday, is likely to add to concerns that a return for Trump to the Oval Office could be characterized primarily by political retribution.

The former communications director for the Trump administration told the outlet she had been at a meeting at which he “straight up said a staffer who leaked … should be executed”, referring to an anonymously sourced report that the former president had gone into a secure bunker at the White House at the height of the racial justice protests prompted by a Minneapolis police officer’s murder of George Floyd.

“There were others where we talked about executing people,” Griffin said.

In response to Griffin’s comments, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek: “As President Trump has said, the best revenge is the success and prosperity of all Americans.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/15/trump-white-house-leaker-execution

Sure raises questions about a second term, doesn't it?

[Attilatheblond]

1. Hope that made Alito get verwwwwwy nervous

[LudwigPastorius]

2. "(Former AG Bill 'The Fixer') Barr said he couldn't remember whether Trump...

specifically called for someone to be executed and doubted it would ever have actually been carried out."


Well, alrighty then! As long as Billy Boy "doubts" that summary executions ordered by a president would be carried out, it's all good!

[Wuddles440]

4. Jeffery Epstein...

might possibly dispute such conclusions.

[senseandsensibility]

3. That wasn't a denial was it?

I am not surprised by this at all.

[republianmushroom]

5. Are we surprised ?

40 months and counting (includes foot dragging)

[lame54]

6. Shhh...this can only help him

[maxrandb]

7. "concerns that a return to the Oval Office could be characterized primarily by political retribution"

Really media? That's how you frame it? "Could be characterized?

WT-everloving-F!!!!!!

I guess you could say that political assassinations "may be a concern", but, you could also say; "DEPLORABLE, UN-AMERICAN, DISGUSTING, OUTRAGEOUS, EVIL, DESPICABLE, and IN-FUCKING-SANE!!!!!!!!

But, you do you....

[Biophilic]

8. I don't believe that trump said that the best revenge was the prosperity and success of all Americans.

That doesn’t sound like him at all.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. I Have No Doubt...

...that he never said such a thing.

[B.See]

9. Strange, how Trump wants people executed for

doing a whole lot LESS than what he's done, isn't it?

[Skittles]

10. if Trump could have his critics rounded up and executed

HE WOULD