Ex-Aide Says Trump Discussed 'Executing People' More Than Bill Barr Claims To Recall

Alyssa Farah Griffin says the former attorney general "danced" around this fact during a recent interview on CNN.

Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, who previously alleged that Donald Trump once considered having a staffer “executed,” said Friday that former Attorney General Bill Barr has “danced” around the fact that this wasn’t a one-time incident.

“Kaitlan Collins … at CNN interviewed Bill Barr and asked about an anecdote I had shared about a meeting he and I were both in, in the Oval Office, where Trump straight-up said a staffer who leaked a story should be executed,” Griffin said on Mediaite’s “Press Club” podcast.

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

Griffin stepped down days before the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot and publicly demanded Trump resign after it. She’s since become a co-host on “The View,” where she said in December that Trump discussed executing a staffer in front of “a dozen other” people.

Barr, asked about the moment in in April, told Collins: “I remember him being very mad. … I actually don’t remember him saying ‘executing,’ but I wouldn’t dispute it.”