Nearly three dozen former Trump officials reportedly held a conference call Monday to discuss undermining their former boss' influence in the 2022 and 2024 elections.
Among those who participated were former White House communications directors Alyssa Farah Griffin and Anthony Scaramucci, former White House chief of staff, retired Gen. John Kelly, former Homeland Security and counterterrorism adviser to Vice President Pence Olivia Troye, according to CNN.
Griffin, now a CNN commentator, became a target of the president after she claimed that he knew he lost the 2020 election. On the day of the call she publicly encouraged Republicans to challenge Trump.
'DeSantis should run,' she wrote on Twitter Monday, quoting news that Trump had called the Florida governor 'dull.' 'So should Pence, Pompeo, Haley, Cotton, Tim Scott, Sununu, Hogan, etc. Credible Republicans with governing experience should challenge Trump. There's zero reason to nominate Trump again when R's have a bench & Biden is polling in the 30s.'
Former Department of Homeland Security official Elizabeth Neumann, and former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Chris Krebs were also on the call. Miles Taylor, author of the famed 'Anonymous' New York Times op-ed and former DHS chief of staff, led the efforts.
Taylor told CNN that ideas for sabotaging Trump included 'shining a light' on his corporate contributors or targeting each of the candidates he endorses in state and local elections for defeat in the primary and general elections.
Kelly, who said he was only able to 'monitor' about 10 minutes of the hour-long call, is shying away from the idea of endorsing specific candidates.
Nearly three dozen former Trump officials reportedly held a conference call Monday to discuss undermining their former boss' influence in the 2022 and 2024 elections
Among those who participated were former White House communications directors Alyssa Farah Griffin (above) and Anthony Scaramucci, former White House chief of staff, retired Gen. John Kelly
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