Certainly one of former President Donald Trump’s top White House aides slammed his ex-press secretary Kayleigh McEnany as “a liar and an opportunist” in testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee.
Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, now a co-host on “The View,” criticized McEnany for helping Trump, 76, perpetuate false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, transcripts released by the Jan. 6 panel on Thursday reveal.
“I’m a Christian woman, so I’ll say this. Kayleigh is a liar and an opportunist,” Griffin told investigators during her scathing testimony.
Griffin alleges that McEnany misled the general public in an effort to remain in Trump’s “good graces” after his presidency.
“I wish her the perfect, but she made – she’s a wise woman. She’s a Harvard law grad. This is just not an idiot,” Griffin continued. “She knew we lost the election, but she made a calculation that she desired to have a certain life post-Trump that required staying in his good graces. And that was more necessary to her than telling the reality to the American public.”
Griffin said that she never confronted McEnany concerning the issue, but she believed the White House spokeswoman saw defending Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results as a “last public-facing stand” that may “set” her up for all times.
McEnany was hired as a contributor on Fox News after Trump left office.
“She got her FOX News gig. It worked out precisely how she’d at all times planned for it to, but she knew higher,” Griffin told the Jan. 6 committee.
In accordance with Griffin, McEnany and “most individuals around [Trump] know” that the previous commander in chief was defeated within the 2020 election.
“The one people I feel are true believers are like Dan Scavino, Johnny McEntee, [Mark] Meadows to some extent,” she told the select committee investigating last 12 months’s riot on the Capitol Constructing.
Griffin resigned from her Trump administration post in December 2020 over concerns with the White House’s message that the election results could also be fraudulent.