Alyssa Farah Biography
Alyssa Farah is an American political advisor who served in the Trump administration as White House Director of Strategic Communications and Assistant to the President in 2020. From 2019 to 2020, Farah was the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Media Affairs and the Press Secretary for the US Department of Defense.
How old is Alyssa Farah? – Age
Farah is 32 years old as of 15 June 2021. She was born in 1989 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Her real name is Alyssa Alexandra Farah.
Who are Alyssa Farah parents? – Family
Farah is the daughter of Joseph Francis Farah and Judy Smagula. Her paternal grandparents are of Syrian and Lebanese ancestry. Her grandfather was a schoolteacher.
Who is Alyssa Farah’s father? – Alyssa Farah and Joseph Farah
Joseph Farah, her father, is a Syrian-Lebanese journalist who worked as executive news editor at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner before moving to Northern California in 1990 to become editor of The Sacramento Union. He went on to found WorldNetDaily, a far-right conspiracy website. Judy Smagula, her mother, is a Sacramento-based journalist who has contributed to HuffPost, the Associated Press, and Comstock’s Magazine.
Is Alyssa Farah married? – Husband
Farah became engaged to Justin Griffin, a New York University Stern School of Business student and Samuel A. Tamposi’s grandson, in 2020. They married in November of 2021.
Alyssa Farah Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Alyssa Farah Measurements – Height, Weight
She stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68m). Her body weight and other measurements are not known.
Alyssa Farah Career
Prior to 2014, Farah worked as a “special Washington correspondent for WND” for the far-right conspiracy website WorldNetDaily, where she wrote articles. Farah began a one-year stint as an associate producer on The Laura Ingraham Show in 2010, after working as a media intern for Congressman Tom McClintock. Farah was the spokesperson for the College Republican National Committee during the 2012 presidential campaign, traveling across the country to discuss the youth vote. She was appointed as Congressman Mark Meadows’ Press Secretary in 2014, and later as his Communications Director. She later worked as the Communications Director for the Freedom Caucus in the United States House of Representatives, where she worked under Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows.
She was named Special Assistant to the President and Press Secretary to Vice President Mike Pence in September 2017. She accompanied Vice President Mike Pence on numerous domestic and international trips and was a member of the official US delegations to the Munich Security Conference and the ASEAN Summit.
Farah was named Press Secretary for the United States Department of Defense in September 2019, after the position had been vacant for nearly a year. She was also given the title of Director of Media Relations. Farah served as the Department’s chief spokesperson, advising Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley on all public affairs matters.
Meadows, now Trump’s Chief of Staff, was said to be considering hiring Farah as a White House Press Secretary in April 2020. On April 7, 2020, she began her tenure as the White House Director of Strategic Communications. Farah reportedly played a key role in shaping the Trump administration’s coronavirus response, according to The Washington Post in August 2020.
On December 3, 2020, Farah resigned as White House communications director, effective the following day. According to one person speaking anonymously at the time, she planned to start a consulting firm “focusing on the corporate, political, and defense realms” and that she had originally planned to leave before the election. The Secretary of Homeland Security’s Award for Distinguished Public Service was given to Farah.
Farah publicly condemned Trump supporters harassing Senator Mitt Romney the day before the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol. Farah condemned the attack, and just a few days later, on January 8, she accused Trump of inciting the uprising and suggested he resign. As part of the Big Lie, Farah spread misinformation that falsely suggested widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Farah questioned the constitutionality of the impeachment in a CNN interview on February 7, 2021, and stated that she believed censure would be more appropriate than impeachment. When asked if she would support censure if the impeachment failed, she dodged the question, saying it was “an open question,” before advising the country to “move on” from the Capitol raid. Farah joined the Independent Women’s Forum as a Visiting Fellow in February 2021. Farah co-authored an editorial with Johanna Maska, President Obama’s Director of Press Advance, in June of 2021. The two discuss the importance of bridging the political divide in the United States in an editorial published by USA Today. Farah is expected to join CNN in December 2021, according to Politico.