What Happened to Alyssa Farah?
Alyssa Farah Griffin, former White House director of strategic communications in the Trump administration, is defending herself after conservative magazine National Review pointed out her drastic political transformation on Thursday.
“Personal thread: National Review has a piece out on me about how I’ve ‘changed.’ I didn’t read it but want to share this for those who don’t know: I worked for VP Mike Pence for 2 years. I will always be grateful & honored to have served in that role,” Farah tweeted in response to the article she says she won’t read.
Then I went on to work at @DeptofDefense in the Trump Admin for a year. It was my greatest professional honor. In the final 8 months of the Trump Admin, at the height of COVID, I was asked to go the West Wing. I originally did it on detail from DOD, intending to return
— Alyssa Farah Griffin 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@Alyssafarah) July 14, 2022
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She further described her past employment, which includes working for former Vice President Mike Pence, being a part of former President Donald Trump’s administration, and working in the Department of Defense.
But when you’ve worked in the highest levels of government, you realize the problems that come to the Oval Office, or the office of the SecDef aren’t always as simple as something you can solve on purely partisan lines.
— Alyssa Farah Griffin 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@Alyssafarah) July 14, 2022
“I haven’t stopped using my voice since to condemn his lies & unfitness for office. I remain a conservative who believes in limited federal government & a robust national defense,” she explained.
“Holding a TS/SCI security clearance & receiving briefings fundamentally changed how I see the world & our role in it. I hope I’ve evolved. I hope I do the rest my life. I pride myself first & foremost in being an American. The political labels will always be secondary to me,” concluded Farah.
Notably, the fundamental change she mentions, which is demonstrated in the article “What Happened to Alyssa Farah?” by National Review’s Nate Hochman, occurred within a matter of months. And according to the piece, this metamorphosis didn’t occur until months after she left the administration. The briefings that she claims changed her worldview didn’t kick in for a while.
“Prior to her departure from the White House that December, Farah was, by all accounts, a conventionally partisan Republican operative. But as she has pivoted to presenting herself as fervently anti-Trump — and sometimes anti-Republican — her statements have shifted dramatically,” writes Hochman.
A colleague of Farah’s told Vanity Fair, “Fox got Kayleigh McEnany, so she had to adapt to some extent,” regarding Farah’s career trajectory, and, as Hochman puts it, “adapt she did.”
The former Trump staffer-turned-CNN contributor now appears as the token conservative on CNN programs, as well as guest hosting The View on occasion, in which she regularly rubs elbows with those she used to criticize heavily.
In a recent Instagram post, Farah is pictured in deep conversation with Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke after he was a guest on the show.
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