Trump talked about executing people while in the White House, ex-aide reveals

Donald Trump talked openly about executing people while he was president, a former White House aide has claimed.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, director of strategic communicationsat the White House from April-December 2020, made the claim on Mediaite’s Press Club podcast on June 14.

According to the former aide, Trump had called for the execution of a staffer who leaked a story, among others. Griffin said that Trump made the comments about the staffer during an Oval Office where she and former Attorney General Bill Barr were present.

Griffin said: “[CNN host] Kaitlan Collins, to her credit, interviewed Bill Barr and asked about an anecdote that I had shared about a meeting he and I were both in the Oval Office where Trump straight up said a staffer who leaked a story should be executed.

“And Bill Barr kind of danced [around] it and said ‘I don’t recall that specific instance,’ but there were others where we talked about executing people. How do you rationalize that is a person fit in sound judgment to be president of the United States?”

The Independent has contacted Trump’s campaign for comment.

Griffin has frequently voiced her opposition to a second Trump term since leaving the White House as her boss was in the full throes of attempting to overturn the 2020 election results. In the aftermath of the January 6 attack, she would call on him to resign.

Trump has used increasingly dehumanising language about his political opponents. At a rally in Ohio ahead of the state’s Senate primary in March, he told his supporters that Democrats were “not people” in some cases.

“In some cases, they’re not people,” he told a cheering crowd in Dayton.

In April, Barr told CNN that he didn’t recall Trump demanding a political opponent’s