Previous Trump staffer denounces him for 'despicable' attacks on Elaine Chao

Cami Mondeaux

October 01, 04:22 PM October 01, 04:22 PM

Alyssa Farah Griffin, a political commentator and onetime White Property director of strategic communications for Donald Trump, denounced the former president for his attacks on Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his wife, declaring “he is not even trying to conceal the racism at this stage.”

Her remarks appear after Trump issued his most up-to-date assault against McConnell on Friday, stating that the senator "has a loss of life wish" right after he backed a bill that the Democrats released. The former president also took aim at McConnell’s spouse Elaine Chao, who was Trump's transportation secretary in advance of she resigned in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot, contacting her “his China loving spouse, Coco Chow!” Chao was born in Taipei, Taiwan.

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“This isn’t some crazy person on the online, this is the GOP front-runner for President if the Party does not wake up & desire greater,” Griffin reported in a tweet. “He’s not even attempting to cover the racism at this point. Just despicable.”

Trump has repeatedly taken photographs at McConnell and Chao considering the fact that leaving the White Residence, notably following the Senate minority leader rebuked the former president’s steps through the Capitol riot and turned down attempts to problem the success of the 2020 election.

It is not solely clear what legislation Trump is referring to in his latest assault, but his opinions arrived just after the Senate passed a stopgap funding bill. The legislation would keep the authorities funded till Dec. 16, and it was supported by McConnell and other Republicans.

It also follows the Senate minority chief confirming he would again the Electoral Reform Act, a bipartisan bill aiming to make it more durable to object to presidential election outcomes subsequent the Jan. 6 riot.

Some pundits pushed from Trump’s suggestion that McConnell experienced a “death wish,” calling the responses perhaps hazardous. Nonetheless, a spokesman for the former resident turned down the accusations.

“Mitch McConnell is killing the Republican Occasion by way of weakness and cowardice. He naturally has a political death would like for himself and Republican Social gathering, but President Trump and the The united states First champions in Congress will conserve the Republican Party and our nation,” spokesman Taylor Budowich instructed NBC News.