CNN political commentator and former Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin is joining “The View” full-time, according to media reports. Griffin is expected to fill the spot vacated by Meghan McCain last August.
Prior to her time on “The View” and CNN, Farah Griffin served as press secretary for Vice President Mike Pence and Special Assistant to Trump from October 2017 to September 2019. In 2019, she became the Press Secretary for the United States Department of Defense, which she worked as until 2020. Farah Griffin also served as Trump’s Director of Strategic Communications.
A spokesperson for “The View” would neither confirm nor deny the reports, telling TheWrap: “We do not have a co-host announcement to make at this time.