Trump spokesman's 'ominous and bizarre' response to question about executions raises alarm

A non-answer about an interview a former high-ranking Donald Trump White House official gave over the weekend saying her former boss proposed executing disloyal leakers in his administration has raised a different kind of alarm.

In an interview over the weekend, former White House communications official Alyssa Farah Griffin stated that her former boss brought up the prospect at more than one meeting,

According to Farah Griffin, during a discussion on who leaked a story about Trump fleeing to a bunker during the George Floyd protests, the former president became incensed.

As she recalled, Trump “straight up said a staffer who leaked the story should be executed,” before adding, "But there were others, where he talked about executing people.”

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She continued, "And I’m like, how [do] you rationalize that that is a person fit, in sound judgment to be president of the United States?”

Farah Griffin also criticized other former Trump officials who have remained silent about Trump's ravings by suggesting, "They know there’s a very real chance he’s going to be president again, and there’s not a lot of glory or like, victory in being right, but being on the wrong side of Trump. I think that’s ultimately what it comes down to.”

As the New Rerpublic's Talia Jane reported, a comment from the president's office given to Newsweek did not deny her account — and instead was more than a little disturbing.

As Jane wrote, "In response to the news that Trump had called for a staffer’s execution, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung issued an ominous and bizarre statement to Newsweek: 'As President Trump has said, the best revenge is the success and prosperity of all Americans.'

"Cheung did not confirm or deny any of the details of the meeting between Griffin, Barr, and Trump."

The New Republic journalist added, "Trump’s disturbing penchant for execution is just par for the course for the would-be dictator, whose bloodlust has increased in the public eye post-conviction," before recalling, "in 2016, Trump regularly called to imprison Hillary Clinton — calls which the freshly convicted felon now denies making but which were a hallmark of his campaign."

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