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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,739 posts)
Mon May 17, 2021, 07:38 PM May 2021

Ex-Trump Adviser Alyssa Farah Explains Why She Would Never Vote for Him Again

Alyssa Farah, former White House Director of Strategic Communications under former President Donald Trump, has said that she won't be supporting Trump again, even if he decides to run again for president in 2024.

"If he's a Republican candidate in 2024, yes, I will not be supporting Donald Trump in 2024," Farah said on the Sunday evening instalment of the MSNBC's The Mehdi Hasan Show.

Farah said that she supported Republican Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney speaking out against Trump's baseless claim that widespread voter fraud caused his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden. She also said the GOP's "complete loyalty" to Trump is "fundamentally un-conservative," "strategically unwise" and "also morally reprehensible."

Additionally, Farah voiced concern that the Republican Party's continued loyalty to Trump will cause the party to lose voters, particularly older people and women. She also claimed that supporting Trump will push away Republican legislators who are more interested in discussing legislative policy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-trump-adviser-alyssa-farah-explains-why-she-would-never-vote-for-him-again/ar-BB1gQenu

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Ex-Trump Adviser Alyssa Farah Explains Why She Would Never Vote for Him Again (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2021 OP
Isn't she the daughter of the founder/owner of WordNet(nut)Daily? salin May 2021 #1
appears to be very well-connected/groomed stillcool May 2021 #4
Makes her public 'move the party away from Trump' stance more interesting. salin May 2021 #5
creeps me out... stillcool May 2021 #7
Answer: She has at least one functional brain cell. n/t Downtown Hound May 2021 #2
ENABLER! SoCalDavidS May 2021 #3
Yeah, my reaction was that she is looking to rehabilitate her image Tanuki May 2021 #6
Her image with who? Look at post #4... salin May 2021 #8

salin

(48,955 posts)
1. Isn't she the daughter of the founder/owner of WordNet(nut)Daily?
Mon May 17, 2021, 07:50 PM
May 2021

I think she worked at the nutjob media site for quite some time.

Interesting.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
4. appears to be very well-connected/groomed
Mon May 17, 2021, 08:32 PM
May 2021
Her mother Judy (née Smagula) is a Sacramento-based journalist who has written for HuffPost, the Associated Press, and Comstock's Magazine.[5][6][7]
After graduating from Bella Vista High School in 2007, Farah earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Public Policy from Patrick Henry College.[8]
From 2013 to 2014, Farah wrote articles for the far-right conspiracy website WorldNetDaily, where she served as a "special Washington correspondent for WND."[9][10] In 2010, Farah served as a media intern for Congressman Tom McClintock and began a one-year position as an associate producer on The Laura Ingraham Show.[11] In 2014, she was named Press Secretary for Congressman Mark Meadows; she was later named as his Communications Director. She went on to work as the Communications Director for the Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving under Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows.[12]

In September 2017, she was appointed Special Assistant to the President and Press Secretary to the Vice President Mike Pence. While serving as Press Secretary to the Vice President, she traveled with Pence on numerous trips, domestic and foreign, serving as part of the official U.S. delegations to the Munich Security Conference and ASEAN Summit.[13]

In April 2020, it was reported that Meadows, now Trump's Chief of Staff, had considered bringing Farah on as a White House Press Secretary.[14] She joined the White House Office as the White House Director of Strategic Communications on April 7, 2020.[15] In August 2020, The Washington Post reported that Farah played an important role in shaping the Trump administration's coronavirus response.[16]

salin

(48,955 posts)
5. Makes her public 'move the party away from Trump' stance more interesting.
Mon May 17, 2021, 08:56 PM
May 2021

Given her previous gigs, and her family connections, I doubt this is a principles type stand. Given those she's worked with, it isn't an obvious ideological gig (heh - as if anything related to the GOP is ideological anymore). Very murky. Wonder what her angle is.

Tanuki

(14,914 posts)
6. Yeah, my reaction was that she is looking to rehabilitate her image
Mon May 17, 2021, 09:02 PM
May 2021

so someone will hire her and so she will get invited to parties in the Hamptons again. She knew who and what Trump was when she got on board.

salin

(48,955 posts)
8. Her image with who? Look at post #4...
Mon May 17, 2021, 10:37 PM
May 2021

her bona fides are all far right to fringe. Daughter (and one time employee) of founder (and far right moon barker) of World Net weekly. Look at her other "creds". No need to rehabilitate her image with any of those groups (school, employer) all are trumpy as all get out.

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