Ex-Trump Aide Rips Him for Selling Bibles: 'Tells You All You Need to' Know

Donald Trump's ex-aide Alyssa Farah Griffin called out the former president for selling Bibles on Wednesday.

Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, urged his voters to purchase the "God Bless the USA Bible" at a $59.99 price tag in a three-minute video posted to his social media platform Truth Social this week, sparking ridicule and criticism from some Christians.

"It's very important and very important to me," Trump said in the video. "I want to have a lot of people have it. You have to have it for your heart, for your soul. Many of you have never read them and don't know the liberties and rights you have as Americans, and how you are being threatened to lose those rights.

Griffin, a co-host on The View who served as the White House director of strategic communications and Defense Department press secretary during the Trump administration, blasted the former president for selling the Bibles during a discussion on the show Wednesday.

"He's selling these for $60, and I'm a Christian, and as soon as I hear that price tag I think of the persecuted Christians around the world who risk their lives to have one page of the Bible, to be able to read scripture, in places like China, Saudi Arabia, Syria, where you can't practice your faith openly," she said.

Griffin continued: "And he's using it to profit off of. That tells you all you need to [know] about the man."

Although Griffin once worked in the Trump administration, she has emerged as a conservative critic of the former president following the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, in which a group of his supporters violently protested the results of the 2020 presidential race, which he has claimed was stolen despite a lack of substantial evidence.

The other hosts of The View also weighed in on Trump's Bible sale. Joy Behar questioned why Christians "don't see through this," while Whoopi Goldberg sarcastically quipped that Trump's words were "really moving."

"You can hold a Bible, you can quote 2 Corinthians, you can avoid the 10 Commandments because they do not apply to you...you can do all the things, and I won't quote you on it, but you do not walk in the path of Jesus. He is not an example of what I'm taught in Church," said The View's Sara Haines, who described the sale as "pandering."

Newsweek reached out to Trump's campaign via email and Griffin via Instagram message for comment.

Others took to social media to share their thoughts on the Bible, which includes a King James Version translation, the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as a handwritten chorus of "God Bless the USA" by country singer Lee Greenwood.

"One day after he compared himself to Jesus Christ, Trump is now selling a $60 'Trump endorsed' Bible," Republicans Against Trump posted. "Grifter gonna grift."

"There's NOTHING "holy" about selling Bibles "endorsed by Trump." More blasphemous grift," wrote Lincoln Project adviser Tara Setmayer.