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Posted: 2024-02-09T08:47:02Z | Updated: 2024-02-09T15:31:58Z Ex-Trump Aide Warns Joe Biden Exactly What To Expect Now From Donald Trump | HuffPost

Ex-Trump Aide Warns Joe Biden Exactly What To Expect Now From Donald Trump

Alyssa Farah Griffin said that Donald Trump will "play dirty" and imagined the campaign ads to come.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin , who was a White House communications director under Donald Trump , warned how the former president and other Republicans are now going to play dirty by attacking Joe Biden over a special counsel report on his retention of classified materials.

Robert Hur wrote in his report, released Thursday, that Biden had willfully retained highly classified information but said that criminal charges against the Democratic president were not needed. Hur also drew anger from Biden by questioning the presidents mental fitness .

Farah Griffin told CNNs Wolf Blitzer  that the report is a tremendous gift for Trump, the GOPs likely 2024 presidential nominee.

Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have an age issue, she acknowledged, referring to Trumps age of 77 and Bidens age of 81. Theyve both had gaffes and questions about their mental acuity, but the perception of the two is the real issue here.

The GOP narrative of Biden being too old for the job is the single greatest vulnerability to him winning reelection in November, noted Farah Griffin.

If Im writing the ads for the Trump team, theyre going to say, Were more or less told that Joe Biden would not be mentally competent to sit trial in the case, had this gone to trial, she said, referring to Bidens classified materials probe. Now, it wasnt he was exonerated but were not living in an era of goodwill in politics where we could expect the Republican side to take the high ground. Theyre going to play dirty here.

Farah Griffin added: They are going to weaponize what we saw in this report about his age. And Im not sure Biden is prepared to counter it as heavily as he needs to.

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