Alyssa Farah Griffin, who also previously worked under Donald Trump, said “it would not be that difficult” to take out Russia’s leader.

The View star, ex-Dept. of Defense staffer claims government has plans to kill all enemies: ‘We could take out Putin’

Alyssa Farah Griffin, who also previously worked under Donald Trump, said "it would not be that difficult" to take out Russia's leader.

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- Alyssa Farah Griffin claims that the government has plans to "take out" all major enemies.

- Griffin previously worked under Donald Trump and at the Department of Defense before joining *The View* in 2022.

- "The easy part of war is killing the bad guys. It's what happens next that is the hard part," Griffin said.

*The View** *cohost, former Donald Trump White House staffer, and ex-Department of Defense insider Alyssa Farah Griffin spilled a major bit of internal information from her time working inside the United States government.

Though she was on maternity leave when *The View*'s Hot Topics table dissected the joint United States-Israel attack on Iran (which killed the nation's leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei), the 36-year-old commentator weighed in on the ongoing war after returning to the show following a two-month absence.

"I celebrate that the ayatollah is dead. He deserved to be taken out the way that he was," Griffin said on the show's *Behind the Table* podcast (below), adding that she supports the reported destruction of nuclear sites in Iran as well.**

Alyssa Farah Griffin and Donald Trump at the White House. OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVES

"The easy part of war is killing the bad guys. It's what happens next that is the hard part," she continued, referencing her time working under Trump on the White House's communications team after leaving her post at the Department of Defense's press team in April 2020.

"Having worked at the Department of Defense — and this isn't anything I'm not supposed to say — I can tell you, the U.S. has plans to take out any bad guy in the world. We could take out Putin and in fact it would not be that difficult," Griffin explained, later adding, "Name anyone on the planet. But, the question becomes what we'd call the second or third world order effects of that."

She said questions the government often asks before weighing a potential enemy ouster include, "What does it lead to? Who replaces them? Is there a natural uprising with the people? Is it somebody who's just as bad, if not worse?"

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Observing the current political landscape in Iran, Griffin said, "What I'm seeing now, to the best of what we know, the son of the ayatollah is just as radicalized as he is, is no different as a leader, and in fact now has a mission of vengeance and martyrdom because of his father."

* *has reached out to the White House and the Pentagon for comment on Griffin's claims.

Griffin has long been open about her work in the political sector before launching a television career, having worked under Trump at the White House before resigning and speaking out against her former boss amid the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

Griffin was even interviewed by federal prosecutors in a probe into the insurrection. EW eventually confirmed with a source close to the situation that Griffin voluntarily met with prosecutors in early 2023, after a CNN piece first broke the news.

The network initially reported that "the interview was focused primarily on former President Donald Trump, his state of mind and what he knew about the baseless claims of widespread election fraud he was pushing leading up to the Jan. 6 attack," elaborating on Griffin's input that might "help prosecutors by providing first-hand accounts of times Trump seemed to acknowledge he lost the election."

*The View* airs weekdays on ABC. Watch Griffin on the *Behind the Table* podcast above.

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