Three former Trump WH officials warn against his 2024 bid: ‘End of American democracy’
Three women who worked in former President Donald Trump’s administration bleakly warned voters against returning him to the White House in 2024.
They cautioned that he poses a grave threat to American democracy and some even mused about backing the Democrat option should Trump lock down the GOP nod.
“Everyone who was in the West Wing, and frankly, a lot of Cabinet secretaries, they know how dangerous Trump is,” former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin told ABC’s “This Week.”
“This is not about politics. It’s not about policy. It is about the character of the man.”
Griffin was joined in the interview by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and former White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews.
“We don’t need to speculate what a second Trump term would like because we already saw it play out,” Matthews said, before rehashing his 2020 election denialism.
Trump’s campaign forcefully repudiated the three women, who have been vocally outspoken against the 45th president.
“These ungrateful grifters used the opportunities given to them by President Trump to build their careers until they realized they could make more money as Never Trumper$ [sic],” a Trump campaign official said.
“None of their TV contracts or book deals would exist if they hadn’t gone Full Judas.”
The 77-year-old former president and GOP frontrunner has grappled with a bevy of high-profile defections from his administration.
Top former officials such as former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Attorney General Bill Barr, Chief of Staff John Kelly, and more have all warned against reelecting him in 2024.
Despite efforts to knock him down in the primary, Trump has reigned supreme in the polls.
“I would just encourage others to come forward because we’re running out of time in order to try to stop Trump from being in the Oval Office again,” Matthews said.
“A lot of these people won’t come forward even if privately they’ll acknowledge that Trump is unfit or will privately acknowledge that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen,” Matthews continued. “It’s because they know that they will face death threats, that their families will face death threats.”
Matthews dangled the possibility of voting for a Democrat in the general election should Trump emerge as the Republican standard bearer.
“I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I think that in this next election, I would put policy aside and choose democracy,” Matthews said.
“Our singular focus needs to be if he is the nominee on making sure that he is not elected the president again next November,” Hutchinson said.
Hutchinson drew attention to Trump musing about being a dictator for one day.
“The fact that he feels that he needs to lean into being a dictator alone shows that he is a weak and feeble man,” she said.
The first Republican contest is set to take place Jan. 15, 2024 in the Iowa caucuses followed by the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 23, 2024.
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