‘The View’s Alyssa Farah Griffin Accuses Matt Gaetz Of Feeding Donald Trump A Conspiracy Claiming ‘Morning Joe’ Scarborough Was A Murderer

Alyssa Farah Griffin is not thrilled with Donald Trump‘s attorney general pick, Matt Gaetz. According to The View co-host and former Trump staffer, she once caught the controversial politician trying to feed her former boss a “malicious” conspiracy theory.

Griffin, who resigned from Trump’s administration in 2020 and has since spoken out about him, remembered her awkward run-in with Gaetz on this morning’s episode of The View.

“I don’t know Matt Gaetz personally, my only experience with him came back to mind when this was announced,” she said. “I was standing in the outer Ovals, the room outside of the Oval Office, with Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan. Matt Gaetz was holding a folder, he was about to go meet with then-president Trump.”

The Republican co-host accused Gaetz of showing her “printed out conspiracy theories that Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe and former congressman had murdered his staffer” — and she even tried to stop him from revealing the folder’s contents to Trump.

“I said, ‘Please do not show these to the President of the United States,'” Griffin recalled. “Then, days ensued of Donald Trump tweeting false, malicious claims about Joe Scarborough. The family of the woman who died — there was no foul play, it was a tragedy — begged Twitter and the White House to take it down, so that speaks to his character, integrity, and judgment.”

Trump previously demanded an investigation into Scarborough after his staffer Lori Klausutis was found dead in his Fort Walton Beach congressional office when he worked for Florida’s 1st congressional district more than two decades ago.

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“When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida,” Trump wrote on X (then Twitter) in 2020. “Did he get away with murder? Some people think so. Why did he leave Congress so quietly and quickly? Isn’t it obvious? What’s happening now? A total nut job!”

But according to the Associated Press, Klausutis had an “undiagnosed heart condition and a coroner concluded she passed out and hit her head as she fell.” The coroner also confirmed that while the head injury caused her death, she “wasn’t struck by another person.”

While Trump’s knowledge of the conspiracy allegedly started with Gaetz, Griffin was hopeful that the Senate would pay attention to the “qualifications, credentials, and the character” of the president-elect’s nominees before consenting to them — especially since Gaetz is “widely disliked even by his Republican colleagues.” 

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.