Ex-Aide Says Donald Trump 'Intellectually He Cannot Accept' This About Early Voting

Former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin suggested former President Donald Trump’s attacks on early voting boil down to two things.

The Republican nominee once again railed against the process at a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday, but also confusingly encouraged it.

Griffin, talking to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, said it gave her “2020 whiplash when his campaign was wanting him to promote early voting, mail-in voting as well during the pandemic and then he would cast out on it.”

Trump “intellectually he cannot accept the fact that you can vote early, it can be safe, it can be tabulated,” she continued. “He just has this very sort of arcane way of looking at it.”

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With Trump’s criticism of early voting, Griffin also said he “wants to preemptively cast out the results in case he loses.”

“He’s