


Alyssa Farah Griffin is setting the record straight. On this morning’s episode of The View, the former White House staffer made it loud and clear that she did not write “secret love letters” to her former boss Donald Trump.
Before she joined The View as the Republican co-host in 2022, Griffin served as the White House director of strategic communications and Assistant to the President. Since leaving the Trump administration in 2020, she has been publicly warning voters of the threat the former president poses to democracy.
Today’s episode of The View was no different, with longtime moderator Whoopi Goldberg hitting back at false claims Joe Rogan made about Trump’s 2011 appearance on the daytime talk show. But before the segment concluded, Griffin chimed in with one more correction.
“I usually don’t respond to him when he comes after me, it feels like punching down,” she said. “But he keeps lying about me and I do want to correct this.”
According to Griffin, Trump “keeps referring” to some sort of “secret love letters” she allegedly wrote him when she worked for his administration.
“I don’t write love letters to dictators or aspiring dictators like Trump did to Kim Jong Un,” Griffin said. “The only letter I ever wrote him was a public resignation letter that was directed toward the Trump administration speaking about my time.”
“Otherwise, CNN fact-checks — he lied about my title and any other things,” she continued. “He’s clearly very focused on this show because we keep calling him out and we’re gonna keep doing it.”

This wasn’t the first time the co-host was forced to fact-check Trump. During the Oct. 16 episode of The View, Griffin accused him of “rewriting” history after he referred to Jan. 6 as a “peaceful transfer of power.”
“There has been a total rewriting and white-washing of Jan. 6,” Griffin said. “I remember the days afterward, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell [all said], ‘I’m done with him, we’re through with this guy, he should be impeached, we should invoke the 25th amendment.’”
She added, “They all knew what they saw and they completely changed their tune when Donald Trump showed that he’s still got some power and he’s still got some support, because it was more politically advantageous to them.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.