Alyssa Farah Griffin, who was a White Home communications director beneath Donald Trump, warned how the previous president and different Republicans are actually “going to play soiled” by attacking Joe Biden over a particular counsel report on his retention of categorized supplies.
Robert Hur wrote in his report, launched Thursday, that Biden had willfully retained extremely categorized data however mentioned that legal prices in opposition to the Democratic president weren’t wanted. Hur additionally drew anger from Biden by questioning the president’s psychological health.
Farah Griffin told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the report is “an incredible reward” for Trump, the GOP’s seemingly 2024 presidential nominee.
“Each Donald Trump and Joe Biden have an age situation,” she acknowledged, referring to Trump’s age of 77 and Biden’s age of 81. “They’ve each had gaffes and questions on their psychological acuity, however the notion of the 2 is the true situation right here.”
The GOP narrative of Biden being too outdated for the job is “the only biggest vulnerability” to him profitable reelection in November, famous Farah Griffin.
“If I’m writing the advertisements for the Trump group, they’re going to say, ‘We’re kind of informed that Joe Biden wouldn’t be mentally competent to sit down trial within the case, had this gone to trial,’” she mentioned, referring to Biden’s categorized supplies probe. “Now, it wasn’t — he was exonerated — however we’re not residing in an period of goodwill in politics the place we might anticipate the Republican aspect to take the excessive floor. They’re going to play soiled right here.”
Farah Griffin added: “They will weaponize what we noticed on this report about his age. And I’m undecided Biden is ready to counter it as closely as he must.”
