Former Trump administration staffers said U.S. was ‘running out of time’ to stop former president Donald Trump to reintegrate the White House.
The three staffers, Sarah Matthews, Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah Griffin, discussed their experiences in the former administration, as well as how Trump can still potentially become the Republican Party’s nominee for president . 2024 presidential election. Matthews, who served as deputy press secretary during the Trump administration, said she believed other staffers were not speaking out against Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was rigged because they might potentially “facing death threats”.
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“I knew that by speaking out against Donald Trump, I could potentially face security threats, death threats, online harassment,” Matthews said in an ABC interview. This week. “Despite all the personal sacrifices, I knew that ultimately it was the right thing to do. So I just encourage others to come forward because we are running out of time to try to stop Trump from being back in the Oval Office.”
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Griffin, who worked as director of strategic communications at the White House, said Trump knows “how to use government better this time” and that if Trump returned to the White House in 2025, he could place “hardline loyalists » in positions of power. Griffin said such a situation was “almost too frightening to completely comprehend.”
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former assistant to Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, added that the “single priority” should be ensuring that Trump does not win the general presidential election if he becomes a Republican. primary candidate. Matthews agreed, stating that although she had never voted Democratic, she would “choose democracy” over voting for Trump.
The Trump campaign was asked about the interview the trio of former staffers did with the outlet, in which the campaign called them “ungrateful crooks” who became “a real Judas,” a reference to one disciples of Jesus Christ.
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Trump said he would not spend his entire presidency as a dictator if he became president again, but that he would be a dictator from his first day back at the White House. The former president has made retaliation a major focus of his 2024 campaign.
President Joe Biden is seeking re-election in 2024, meaning the next presidential election could end up being a rematch between him and Trump. Recent polls have shown Trump could beat Biden in the rematch, with the former president leading Biden in seven swing statesincluding Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.