“It's a very sad thing; I know Max,” Trump said during an Oval Office press conference on Monday. It's a very sad thing, but it's accusations, and I'm going to let them figure that out.” At that point Hunt pointed out that there are reports Trump has privately told allies Miller is not able to win, even though publicly he remains supportive. “This is such a hard story,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, former Trump White House communications director, told Hunt on Monday earlier in the same interview. Because they feel that the person who told on them is victimizing them.