Future Retirement Success
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Investing
  • Stocks
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Investing
  • Stocks

Future Retirement Success

Politics

Former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffen defied orders to keep Fauci, Birx off TV

by December 30, 2022
December 30, 2022
Former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffen defied orders to keep Fauci, Birx off TV

Alyssa Farah Griffen admitted in congressional testimony that during her time as a White House aide she would ‘work around’ orders from President Trump and others who wanted to limit television and media appearances of Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx.

Farah, who once served as communications director for the House Freedom Caucus, the Department of Defense, and eventually, White House Strategic Communications Director under President Trump, testified to the House Select Committee to Investigate January 6th she would ‘work around’ orders from senior advisors Kellyanne Conway, Hope Hicks, and even Trump himself to take doctors Fauci and Birx off-air as part of the White House’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Farah, who now co-hosts The View, claimed that she had to end-run signals from Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, which she claimed wanted to talk about COVID-19 less since it wasn’t ‘driving home a message’ for Trump’s reelection. 

‘And so I had to kind of work around that,’ Farah said. ‘One of my solutions was I would put the doctors on regional television because no one would notice, and I would just literally put, like, Dr. Birx in this studio that we had and she would do like 4 hours of regional TV interviews in places that were having big outbreaks.

‘And at one point Kellyanne Conway told me, ‘Do not put the’ — she and Hope cornered me in the Oval in front of the President and said, ‘Alyssa, keeps putting the doctors on TV. It’s driving down the numbers. It’s scaring people over COVID. You need to tell her not to have the doctors on.’ And so the President told me point-blank to not have them on TV anymore.

‘So I got with Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, who I’m very close with and remain close with, and said we’re going to work around this, give me a little bit more time. And I went with the regional media strategy. And I would just start interspersing them back on national media, and I’d get yelled at by Kellyanne and others,’ Farah said

The transcript of Farah’s testimony was released this week among a tranche of transcripts from interviews conducted by the House Jan. 6 committee.

A former senior Trump official commented on Farah’s testimony to Fox News Digital: ‘It’s remarkable she appears to be boasting she was somewhat responsible for creating the Fauci media monster – a disaster.

‘What she leaves out is that the White House media strategy had become a confusing mess – substituting advisors as the leader responsible for making difficult decisions that would significantly impact the trajectory of the nation,’ the person said, adding that ‘only a duly elected president has been charged with that responsibility because a president has to incorporate a myriad of factors into decisions that will affect the wellbeing of a nation. Medical advice is only one aspect to that.’ 

Since 2020, Fauci has participated in over 300 television interviews and other media events. Recently, he has been a central figure in a lawsuit from GOP attorneys general Jeff Landry and Eric Schmitt against the Biden administration, in which the duo allege that the government colluded with Big Tech to control communication about COVID-19, including the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.

‘Defendant Dr. Anthony Fauci, a senior federal government official, coordinating with others, orchestrated a campaign to discredit the lab-leak hypothesis in early 2020,’ Landry and Schmitt said in their brief. ‘As director of [the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases],  Dr. Fauci had funded risky ‘gain-of-function’ research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through intermediaries such as EcoHealth Alliance, headed by Dr. Peter Daszak.’

The nation’s top doctor is set to retire on December 31.
 

Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS
0
FacebookTwitterGoogle +Pinterest
previous post
DC Mayor Bowser says police believed Jan. 6 rioters would be friendly to law enforcement
next post
Record number of Britons file tax returns on Christmas Day

You may also like

MO Senator-Elect Eric Schmitt: FBI Put Their Fingers...

December 6, 2022

Hawaii Democrat says Biden’s ‘no comment’ on wildfires...

August 15, 2023

Dog the Bounty Hunter’s ‘Very Healthy’ Right-Hand Man...

December 2, 2022

Biden campaign official pressed on president’s mental sharpness,...

January 22, 2024

Hunter Biden may be held in contempt of...

December 14, 2023

Hunter Biden laid out ‘price of power’ in...

August 3, 2023

Is Biden about to make history for all...

November 28, 2023

Prosecutors drop all charges against Andrew Gillum, former...

May 16, 2023

Stacey Abrams to Crowded Room Maskless: “If You’re...

October 27, 2022

Mother of Hamas hostage says US shouldn’t be...

May 13, 2024

    Get free access to all of the retirement secrets and income strategies from our experts! or Join The Exclusive Subscription Today And Get the Premium Articles Acess for Free

    By opting in you agree to receive emails from us and our affiliates. Your information is secure and your privacy is protected.

    Recent Posts

    • DAVID MARCUS: Zany Zohran endorsement is existential choice for Hakeem Jeffries

      July 26, 2025
    • FTC firings take spotlight in Trump’s fight to erase independence of agencies

      July 26, 2025
    • DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified Trump-Russia docs: Here’s what they say

      July 26, 2025
    • Trump signs rescissions package, closes out week with trip to Scotland

      July 26, 2025
    • CHARLIE KIRK: Republicans must seize Gen Z moment or risk losing an entire generation

      July 26, 2025
    • Technology in Hospitality: Innovations Shaping Guest Experiences

      July 26, 2025

    Categories

    • Business (8,580)
    • Investing (2,151)
    • Politics (16,208)
    • Stocks (3,228)
    • About us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions

    Disclaimer: futureretirementsuccess.com, its managers, its employees, and assigns (collectively “The Company”) do not make any guarantee or warranty about what is advertised above. Information provided by this website is for research purposes only and should not be considered as personalized financial advice. The Company is not affiliated with, nor does it receive compensation from, any specific security. The Company is not registered or licensed by any governing body in any jurisdiction to give investing advice or provide investment recommendation. Any investments recommended here should be taken into consideration only after consulting with your investment advisor and after reviewing the prospectus or financial statements of the company.

    Copyright © 2025 futureretirementsuccess.com | All Rights Reserved