“Triggering MAGA World”: Conservative Media’s Suddenly Urgent Campaign to Discredit Ex-Trump Aides

On Thursday, the National Review, a conservative magazine, published a story about Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former White House communications director under Donald Trump. “What Happened to Alyssa Farah?” the piece asked of the ex-Trump aide, who, since breaking with the former president on January 6, scored a CNN gig and is auditioning to fill Meghan McCain’s old seat on The View. The author of the story, Nate Hochman, kicked off a Twitter thread about his purported findings, “Today, she claims that she worked for Trump to ‘push back’ against his worst instincts. But her past tells a different story.”… Read Full Article