Alyssa Farah Griffin
Role at the time: Co-host, "The View"; former Trump White House Communications Director
Condemned
Statement summary
"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House Communications Director, mocked Patel's hiring-standards defense, asking "how bad is our recruitment that those were the standards we had to lower?"
“How bad is our recruitment that those were the standards we had to lower?”
Watch the original video (opens in a new tab)Alyssa Farah Griffin reacts to Kash Patel's Senate hearing
The View's own YouTube clip of co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin reacting to Kash Patel's Senate hearing.
Why we used this label
Griffin mocks the hiring-standards defense by framing it as evidence of how bad FBI recruitment has become, a condemnation of the policy change.