A former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence assailed
President Donald Trump's response to the pandemic in a new video adding to the
growing list of former Trump administration officials who have criticized the
President and, in several cases, endorsed his Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
Olivia Troye, who was a homeland security adviser to Pence
and his lead staffer on the White House's Coronavirus Task Force, charged in
the two-minute video that Trump failed to protect the American public because
he only cared about himself and getting reelected. Troye's criticism is particularly
striking because of her role working on the coronavirus task force, which Pence
leads.
"We knew that there were going to be increasing cases,
we knew that people were going to die," said Troye, who left the White
House in late July. "But the President didn't want to hear that, because
his biggest concern was that we were in an election year, and how was this
going to affect what he considered to be his record of success?"
A White House official said Troye "never once expressed
any concern about the administration's handling and routinely claimed she 'just
wanted to do right by the VP and POTUS.'"
"This is yet another example of someone who had
proximity to power, yet didn't use their voice to speak up at horrors they
allegedly witnessed. The president would never say any such thing," the
official said.
At one coronavirus task force meeting, Troye claimed that
Trump suggested "maybe this Covid thing is a good thing."
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