‘Complete Lunacy!’ The View’s Alyssa Farah Griffin Rejects Trump’s Claim Criminal Trials Would Make Him More Popular

Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back against Donald Trump’s claim that a criminal trial could make him more popular.

A trial based around a hush money payment given to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to cover up an alleged affair with Trump will kick off on April 15, and Trump suggested to reporters it may only help him because voters know it’s a “scam.”

“It could also make me more popular because the people know it’s a scam,” he said about a possible conviction.

On Tuesday’s The View, Griffin, a former communications official in Trump’s administration, rejected the idea that Republicans who have thus far not supported Trump would be convinced to change their minds based on a criminal conviction.

Griffin called the notion “complete lunacy.”

“There’s this myth out there that somehow these trials are going to make him — win him over more voters and there’s going to be sympathy,” she said. “I reject that as a Republican because yes, his base is going to be with him and they’re going to vocally defend him. But to this sort of 30%, call them the Nikki Haley voters or the ‘somebody other than Trump’ Republicans, there is no way that hush money payments to Stormy Daniels or this fraud case in New York are going to make them more sympathetic to him. I find it to just be complete lunacy.”

Griffin further dug into Trump by accusing him of “destroying the Republican Party,” noting the RNC currently only has $11 million cash on hand and Trump is being out-fundraised by President Joe Biden amid his legal troubles.

“If you’re a down ballot Republican candidate, you’re running for Senate somewhere or running for the House, how are you not angry?” she said. “There’s not going to be money there to fund your race.”

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