Alyssa Farah Griffin Accuses The Biden Administration Of “Gaslighting” Americans On ‘The View’ 

Tensions were high at The View this morning as the panel reacted to George Clooney‘s bombshell New York Times op-ed in which he begged for President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 election. The table was split, with some irritated that Clooney went public with his opinion and others supportive of his call for a new Democratic nominee.

Not so shocking was Alyssa Farah Griffin‘s take. The Republican co-host and former Donald Trump White House staffer — who has since denounced her former boss but won’t go so far as to endorse Biden — bluntly announced on today’s show, “Joe Biden’s feelings don’t matter more than our country.”

Griffin said people like Clooney are “people who want to see Donald Trump defeated” and are “not doing this for fun or for sport — they wanted to see Joe Biden do better.”

She added, “There’s no historic example of someone being behind the margin of error in every single battleground state, save one, and coming back in three-and-a-half months and winning. We are staring down the barrel of Donald Trump being president elect in three-and-a-half months, and this is the time for Democrats to set their feelings aside and make a change.”

When it was Ana Navarro‘s turn, she continued to throw her full support behind Biden while shading his detractors. She declared, “I will be damned if I use whatever little platform I have to demean and weaken our Commander-in-Chief and the one man standing between Donald Trump and the White House.”

Navarro then called out the reporters who were “breathlessly” covering the Parkinson’s specialist who visited the White House eight times over the course of eight months, per The New York Times.

“The man has been part of the White House medical unit since 2012,” she said. “When Obama was president, the man visited the White House over 20 times. Did Barack Obama have Parkinson’s?! No.”

Griffin then interjected, “Those are perfectly legitimate questions that, if they were asked in the Trump administration, you guys would be praising because we deserve the answers, even if it’s not the answer that the media thought they were gonna get.”

Navarro countered that Americans “didn’t know how many times this guy went” to the Trump White House because his administration “didn’t reveal the visitor logs,” but Griffin carried on.

“We need to have a consistency on transparency, no matter who the Commander-in-Chief is, and we should have a consistency of respecting the free press for doing their job regardless of who the Commander-in-Chief is,” she said.

After Sunny Hostin backed Navarro, agreeing that “there was no consistency in the Trump administration because they weren’t releasing the logs,” Griffin claimed that Americans are “being gaslit by the Biden administration every day,” a remark her co-hosts appeared to pass right by as they continued their debate.

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