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Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former aide to President Donald Trump and since co-host of “The View,” said Thursday that it is “unheard of” for someone like Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) to be brought into the White House Situation Room for a mere request.
Boebert was summoned to the White House chambers for an emergency meeting on Wednesday after backing a discharge petition to force a vote on releasing files linked to Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender with whom Trump was involved, which he nevertheless continued to do.
“That’s unheard of,” Griffin, former Trump White House strategic communications director during Trump’s first term, said Thursday. “The only time I was in the Situation Room was for national security matters, during the coronavirus response.”
Boebert’s meeting Wednesday examined recently released email correspondence between Trump and Epstein, who died behind bars while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges and said Trump “knew about the girls” he was victimizing, and the petition Boebert supported to force a House vote on releasing Epstein’s remaining classified files. Boebert was one of only four House Republicans to sign the petition.
“Listen, there was so much to unpack from this, I wasn’t even sure where to start,” Griffin said Thursday. “But one thing that stood out to me is how the White House has handled this Epstein saga from day one.”
Notably, Trump avoided taking questions from the press in the Oval Office after the emails were released.
Boebert later thanked her fellow government officials on social media for meeting with her.
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“If you’re someone who is skeptical about Donald Trump’s involvement and you believe that he was somehow aligned with him, they deny that he is, so his actions should match that,” Griffin said. “And it seems like every action they take makes them look more guilty.”
Griffin also noted that people are only brought to the Situation Room during high-caliber events, such as the operation to kill Osama bin Laden. He then bet that Trump’s documented ties to Epstein will “follow” Republicans into next year’s midterm elections.
“And this will depend on your conscience,” he concluded.