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Alyssa Farrah Griffin, the one-time aide to former President Donald Trump, has spoken out about the three ways that he can be stopped amid his attempt to retake the White House.
Griffin previously worked in the Trump administration from 2017 to late 2020, starting as a press secretary for former Vice President Mike Pence and later making her way to White House director of strategic communications, a role that originated during Trump's term that has not been filled since she left it. While her resignation letter commended the administration and her time in it, since the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, she has emerged as a critic of the former president and deemed him unfit to hold office again.
On Tuesday, Griffin took to X, the platform previously known as Twitter, to reiterate her opposition to her former boss's reelection efforts, citing the historic number of officials who have condemned him and laid out the three ways that could stop him, none of which are a sure thing.
"Donald Trump is historically unfit for office," Griffin wrote in a thread. "He's the only former POTUS to be denounced by his former [Chief of Staff], [Secretary of Defense], Chairman of the [Joint] Chiefs, Nat Security Advisor, WH PressSec, WH Comms Director & more. There are 3 ways to stop him: the GOP primary, the courts, or the General [election]. Nikki Haley is best suited to defeat Trump in a primary, but it's a statistically massive uphill battle. It's very possible the courts don't convict before the Election. Then the last backstop is historically unpopular Joe Biden. Wake up America."
Newsweek reached out to Trump's office via email.
Trump is currently the favorite to secure the GOP nomination for president next year by a vast margin, regularly polling with 50 percent support from Republican voters, while his closest rivals have struggled to maintain double-digit support, leading many to deem his nomination inevitable. As Griffin mentions, anti-Trump support has begun to coalesce around Haley, his former U.N. ambassador, but she remains a longshot candidate.
In a hypothetical general election rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden, various polls have shown the two virtually neck-and-neck, a common phenomenon for presidential elections, with some showing Trump in the lead and others giving Biden the edge. While Biden has indeed struggled with approval ratings, his chances are buoyed by Trump's broad unpopularity outside his GOP base and the recent overperformance of Democrats and Democrat-backed policy initiatives in smaller races across the country.
On the legal end of the matter, Trump is the first former president in American history to face criminal charges, with 91 counts having been leveled at him across four indictments. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all of them and decried the investigations into him as efforts to hurt his presidential campaign.
Only the charges stemming from his federal election interference case could potentially bar him from holding elected office in the event of a conviction, but only if Congress took action, making the possibility uncertain. Trump has otherwise pledged to continue running his campaign even if convicted and sent to prison. More pressingly, however, recent polls have indicated that even one criminal conviction for him could sway a large number of voters to Biden in the general election.
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