{"id":1554587,"date":"2022-07-14T16:35:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554587"},"modified":"2022-07-14T16:36:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:36:23","slug":"new-report-exposes-cnn-contributors-dishonest-trump-flip-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-report-exposes-cnn-contributors-dishonest-trump-flip-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Exposes CNN Contributor\u2019s Dishonest Trump Flip-Flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-report-exposes-cnn-contributors-dishonest-trump-flip-flop%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554587&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-14-at-11.49.08-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Alyssa Farah Griffin, who joined CNN after finishing her communications job in the Trump administration, has disavowed many of her pro-Trump positions. As Nate Hochman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/07\/what-happened-to-alyssa-farah\/\">detailed<\/a> in National Review and a Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/njhochman\/status\/1547551798751272962\">thread<\/a> on Thursday, though \u201c[t]oday, she claims that she worked for Trump to \u2018push back\u2019 against his worst instincts \u2026 her past tells a different story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of Griffin\u2019s major flip-flops was her response to Jan. 6. Back in February 2021, Griffin said the country needed to \u201cmove on,\u201d but just eight months later, she said we \u201cabsolutely shouldn\u2019t.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like we\u2019re just glossing over January 6 and moving on,\u201d Griffin said, \u201cand we absolutely shouldn\u2019t.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat changed?\u201d Hochman asked. \u201cFor one thing, Farah was on the cusp of securing a CNN contributor contract, and was auditioning for Meghan McCain\u2019s former spot on The View. Right around the same time, she began to emerge as an increasingly loud critic of the GOP.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Griffin has also flipped on election fraud, as Hochman pointed out. She previously defended President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cconcerns about across the board mail-in voting w\/o reason,\u201d and even acknowledged concerns about Pennsylvania officials \u201cputting their thumb on the scale,\u201d plus \u201cirregularities and fraud\u201d and the potential for a \u201crigged\u201d Georgia runoff. More recently, however, Griffin called election fraud the \u201cBig Lie\u201d and framed herself as \u201ca Republican who has consistently said, \u2018it was not stolen, we lost.&#8217;\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As Hochman said, Griffin\u2019s more recent comments don\u2019t line up with what she said about Trump in the past. She once described him as \u201ca remarkable man\u201d and \u201ca strong leader\u201d and said she was \u201csmiling so wide because I was just excited to see him\u201d the first time they met. More recently, Griffin said she didn\u2019t \u201c[drink] the Kool-Aid for five years\u201d and that she \u201cdidn\u2019t have any illusions about who the president was.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s increasingly difficult to find an issue where Farah *hasn\u2019t* changed her position,\u201d Hochman tweeted. <\/p>\n<p>Griffin went from using Beto O\u2019Rourke\u2019s name as an insult to \u201ctalking politics backstage at The View\u201d with him. She said Miles Taylor\u2019s anonymous New York Times op-ed confirmed that \u201cNever Trumpers\u201d were \u201ctrying to thwart POTUS\u201d but later joined him for an anti-Trump conference call. She went from praising Trump\u2019s \u201cleadership\u201d on Covid to saying he \u201cpoliticized the hell out of this virus.\u201d She chalked up an accusation that Trump refused to condemn right-wing extremism to a \u201cformer disgruntled employee being ineffective at their job\u201d and then said she had counseled him to \u201cwake up every morning and condemn white supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarah claimed that \u2018at no point in my entire life was my goal to be on TV and be a talking head,&#8217;\u201d Hochman tweeted. \u201cBut it\u2019s hard to see her political transformation as anything other than an audition for the mainstream spotlight. She got the spotlight\u2014but at what cost?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t stopped using my voice since [I resigned] to condemn [Trump\u2019s] lies &#038; unfitness for office\u201d Griffin said in a response <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alyssafarah\/status\/1547562869876613123\">Twitter thread<\/a>. \u201cI remain a conservative who believes in limited federal government &#038; a robust national defense. But when you\u2019ve worked in the highest levels of government, you realize the problems that come to the Oval Office, or the office of the SecDef aren\u2019t always as simple as something you can solve on purely partisan lines.\u201d <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Olivia Hajicek is an intern at The Federalist and a junior at Hillsdale College studying history and journalism. She has covered campus and city news as a reporter for The Hillsdale Collegian. You can reach her at olivia.hajicek@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyssa Farah Griffin, who joined CNN after finishing her communications job in the Trump administration, has disavowed many of her pro-Trump positions. 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