off the topic

During their post-election roundup, Griffin — who served as press secretary for former VP Mike Pence and as special assistant to Trump from October 2017 to September 2019 — kicked off the topic, saying, "We talk a lot about these different demographics and assumptions of where they're going to go, Latinos in Texas, a district that's 97 percent Latino, went 75 percentage points for Donald Trump. Why?"

I wanted him to get so ridiculous and off the topic that only his anger was coming through about something that made no sense.

The only real thing we can do to help them is to get them off the topic of politics and get them back onto other important aspects of their life, family, job, etc.

The Justice Department has largely brushed off the topic, and Judge Aileen M. Cannon did not make it a focus when she issued an order saying she would appoint a special master to filter the documents for any privileged material.

Several others shrugged off the topic.