Ex-Aide: Donald Trump May Look Back At This As ‘1 Of The Worst Decisions He Made’

Former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin on Tuesday explained why Donald Trump — in light of what she described as his “creepy” promise to be a “protector” of women if he wins back the White House — may come to regret not picking a woman as his running mate.

The former president, who a jury in May found liable for the sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s, at a rally on Tuesday said of women: “I want to be your protector as president, I have to be your protector. I hope you don’t make too much of it. I hope the fake news doesn’t go, ‘Oh, he wants to be their protector.’ Well, I am. As president, I have to be your protector.”

“I started laughing and thinking it was creepy,” Griffin told CNN’s Anderson Cooper of her immediate response.

But then “thinking more about it,” Griffin said, she felt it was “very infantilizing.”

“Talking about women as though we’re weak, we’re meek, we need a protector, we need a defender and we just sit around thinking about abortions all day, it just underscores a fundamental lack of understanding for why a demographic that represents half of the country is one that he is struggling so profoundly with,” she explained.

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