Ex-Aide Slams Trump’s New ‘Gross’ And ‘Dangerous’ Lies: ‘A Field Day For Russia’

Former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin on Monday described her onetime boss, Donald Trump’s politicization of and lies about the Hurricane Helene relief effort as “gross” and “dangerous.”

Trump has falsely claimed, among a slew of untruths, that Joe Biden’s White House “stole the FEMA money” to “give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them this season.”

The Republican nominee “knows this information isn’t true, and it has real-life consequences on the ground,” Griffin told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

“Volunteers have been depressed because they think that there’s not a need or they’re not able to get to where they need to be, FEMA is spending resources […] to knock down these lies” and “people who desperately need help being told there’s no help to get when in fact, there are quite a lot of federal resources out there,” she added.

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