On Tuesday, there were two former Trump administration officials on “The View.” They couldn’t have been more different.
One was former presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, who was promoting her new book. She’s never apologized for her role in the administration or for running Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The other was Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former director of strategic communications in the Trump White House who has prostrated herself in front of the mainstream media in sackcloth and ashes — beginning on Jan. 8, 2021, when she used a CNN interview to say then-President Donald Trump should resign in the wake of the Capitol incursion.
Griffin has now been rehabilitated suitably enough to appear as an analyst on CNN and a co-host on “The View,” including filling in for co-host Whoopi Goldberg while she took a break earlier this year.
She was there when Conway visited on Tuesday and, as the kids like to say, you should have gotten your popcorn ready.
(This is hardly the first time “The View” has brought on pseudo-conservatives who have mostly renounced their views to act as “counterbalances” to the likes of Whoopi and Joy Behar. They don’t really, as you’re about to see. This shouldn’t be a surprise, however — and we here at The Western Journal chronicle and analyze the messages coming out of the mainstream media, including “The View,” all from a Christian, conservative perspective. If you support our mission, please consider subscribing.)
The showdown began after Griffin began talking about her break with the president in the month leading up to Jan. 6, 2021.
“I broke with the president ahead of January 6 when the big lie started being shared. I spoke out about January 6 when I saw a violent mob assault the Capitol,” she said.
Griffin went on for some time before Conway interrupted: “Is there a question in here?” she asked.
“How do you still defend him, do you still think he could be a good president after he tried to overturn our democracy?” Griffin asked.
Conway noted she’d left several months before Griffin did; “I think you stayed a whole month after the election,” she said.
She added she hadn’t seen Griffin since she had “changed.”
Well, that’s certainly one way to make it clear who stood their ground.
If Griffin’s convictions are sincere, far be it from me to cast aspersions on them. However, she seems to have come to the conclusion she didn’t want to be associated with former President Trump just before he left office with a bit of baggage in the mainstream media — which, of course, is the easiest place to land a job, so long as outlets like “The View” don’t perceive you as radioactive.
After all, not a lot of people outside of politics knew who Griffin was before the past few months — and most still don’t — whereas Conway is both engaging and rightfully famous. There’s a reason why one replaced Whoopi while she was out and the other didn’t, and one suspects it’s not because of Griffin’s name and screen presence.
When Conway pointed that out, though, “The View” quickly decided they wanted to go to commercial posthaste if Conway didn’t stop. What a surprise.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.