Alyssa Farah Griffin, Cassidy Hutchinson and Sarah Matthews sat down with ABC News chief Washington correspondent and “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl to discuss their role in speaking out against Trump in an interview that will be broadcast Sunday on “This Week.”
Three women who served in the Trump White House are sounding the alarm about what a second Donald Trump term could mean for the country, with one saying it could “mean the end of American democracy as we know it.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin, Cassidy Hutchinson and Sarah Matthews sat down with ABC News chief Washington correspondent and “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl to discuss their role in speaking out against Trump in an interview that will be aired Sunday on “This Week.”
This is the first time that Griffin, Hutchinson and Matthews, who each cooperated with the House committee’s Jan. 6 investigation into Trump’s conduct after the 2020 election, have discussed their stories together.
You can watch more of Jonathan Karl’s interview with Alyssa Farah Griffin, Cassidy Hutchinson and Sarah Matthews on “This Week” Sunday morning. Check local listings.
“Fundamentally, a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it, and I don’t say that lightly,” Griffin said. “We’ve all seen him try to steal a democratic election and go to historic, unconstitutional lengths to do it. »
“And it just shows that he is willing to break down all barriers to get to power and stay there,” she continued. “But also, I’m very concerned about what the term would actually look like.”
Griffin served as communications director in the Trump White House until her resignation in December 2020, just after the presidential election. She is now a co-host of ABC’s “The View.”
Griffin participated in a private, behind-the-scenes interview with the committee on Jan. 6, while Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Matthews, a former deputy White House press secretary, testified publicly during televised hearings in addition to closed-door testimony.
Most of the transcripts of the committee’s closed-door witness interviews on Jan. 6 were ultimately released, but not all of those involving Hutchinson.
“We don’t need to speculate about what a second Trump term would look like because we’ve already seen it unfold,” Matthews told Karl. “To this day, he still insists that he believes the election was stolen and fraudulent. And then his rhetoric became more and more erratic. I mean, he literally called for things like removing parts of the Constitution, wanting to weaponize the DOJ to get revenge on his political enemies.
Hutchinson, who became the main target of Trump’s ire following her explosive testimony, highlighted Trump’s recent remarks about whether he would rule like a dictator if elected in 2024.
“The fact that he feels he must become a dictator alone shows that he is a weak and weak man who has no sense of character and integrity and has no sense of leadership,” a- she declared, a sentiment Griffin agreed with. .
Trump has denied any wrongdoing regarding January 6.
The Trump campaign responded to the ABC interview with a statement calling the women “ungrateful crooks” who “took advantage of the opportunities given to them by President Trump” and became “full-fledged Judases.”
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