On Tuesday, there were two former Trump administration officials on âThe View.â They couldnât have been more different.
One was former presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, who was promoting her new book. Sheâs never apologized for her role in the administration or for running Trumpâs 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 â 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 âThe View,â 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 âThe Viewâ has brought on pseudo-conservatives who have mostly renounced their views to act as âcounterbalancesâ to the likes of Whoopi and Joy Behar. They donât really, as youâre about to see. This shouldnât be a surprise, however â and we here at The Western Journal chronicle and analyze the messages coming out of the mainstream media, including âThe View,â 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.
âI 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,â she said.
Griffin went on for some time before Conway interrupted: âIs there a question in here?â she asked.
âHow do you still defend him, do you still think he could be a good president after he tried to overturn our democracy?â Griffin asked.
Conway noted sheâd left several months before Griffin did; âI think you stayed a whole month after the election,â she said.
She added she hadnât seen Griffin since she had âchanged.â
Well, thatâs certainly one way to make it clear who stood their ground.
If Griffinâs convictions are sincere, far be it from me to cast aspersions on them. However, she seems to have come to the conclusion she didnât want to be associated with former President Trump just before he left office with a bit of baggage in the mainstream media â which, of course, is the easiest place to land a job, so long as outlets like âThe Viewâ donât perceive you as radioactive.
After all, not a lot of people outside of politics knew who Griffin was before the past few months â and most still donât â whereas Conway is both engaging and rightfully famous. Thereâs a reason why one replaced Whoopi while she was out and the other didnât, and one suspects itâs not because of Griffinâs name and screen presence.
When Conway pointed that out, though, âThe Viewâ quickly decided they wanted to go to commercial posthaste if Conway didnât stop. What a surprise.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
