A previous GOP assistant to Vice President Mike Pence stated Thursday she is choosing “nation over party” and voting for Democratic nominee Joe Biden since of the administration’s Covid-19 reaction in a new ad launched by a political action committee against President Donald Trump.
Olivia Troye, who worked as homeland security and counterterrorism assistant to Pence for 2 years and worked as his adviser on the Coronavirus Task Force, which he’s helmed, stated Trump revealed indifference at the start of the pandemic and the administration’s response expense lives.
” The virus was very unforeseeable at the start, there were a great deal of unknowns but towards the middle of February, we knew it wasn’t a matter of if COVID would end up being a huge pandemic here in the United States, it referred when,” Troye, who left the White Home in late July, said in an ad launched by Republican Voters Versus Trump.
” However the president didn’t want to hear that, since his most significant issue was that we remained in an election year, and how was this going to impact what he thought about to be his record of success?”
She added, “It was stunning seeing the president saying that the virus was a scam, stating that whatever is OKAY when we know that it’s not. The truth is he doesn’t appreciate anybody else however himself.”
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Troye is not the very first aide to leave the White House and speak up, however as one of the closest aides to the vice president throughout the pandemic action her remarks are a stinging rebuke of the president, who remains in a tough re-election fight and surveys show Americans a bulk of Americans are dissatisfied with his action.
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Miles Taylor, who served as the chief of staff of Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, has likewise left and slammed the administration. He said he is electing Biden. Others include previous nationwide security consultant John Bolton, who composed a scathing book about his time in the White House.
Troye said that during her time there, the president showed indifference.
” When we remained in a task force conference, the president stated, ‘possibly this COVID thing is an advantage, I do not like shaking hands with people, I don’t have to shake hands with these disgusting people’,” she stated in the advertisement.
” Those horrible individuals are the same people that he declares to appreciate. These are the people still going to his rallies today, who have total faith in who he is.”
Troye, who is a Republican, stated that meeting “defined who he was” and she needed to leave the White Home and decided that she would choose Biden. The ad comes as the White House is protecting the president against a new book and tape-recorded audio by veteran journalist Bob Woodward in which Trump stated he downplayed the severity of COVID-19 in the beginning.
Pence dismissed Troye’s claims on Thursday.
” Well, I haven’t read her remarks in any detail however it reads to me like one more unhappy staff member who’s left the White Home and has chosen to play politics throughout an election year,” Pence stated.
” I believe my personnel has actually indicated that she made no remarks like that when she was serving on our team here at the White Home Coronavirus Taskforce and I couldn’t be more pleased with the work we have actually done all along the method and the management President Trump has offered.”
Trump also identified Troye as a dissatisfied worker.
” I have no concept who she is, she doesn’t know me. It’s just another person who leaves. We have a letter from her that was the most lovely disappearing letter,” he stated. “They let her go, with cause, but they let her go.”
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany later tweeted a picture of what she said was Troye’s letter.
” Interesting departure letter from a dissatisfied former detailee who generally beinged in the overflow room of task force,” she tweeted. “LESS THAN 2 months back: ‘I have actually seen very first hand how devoted and devoted all of you have been to doing the right thing.'”
According to the letter shared by McEnany, Troye stated that it was an “outright honor working closely with all of you and your staffs, as part of the brain trust that has valiantly” faced this pandemic challenge.
” I will constantly be rooting for you knowing that you will continue to fight the good fight,” the letter stated. “Know that your steady dedication in the midst of the hardest times is an inspiration to me and Americans throughout the nation. We are grateful for whatever you are doing to keep all of us safe.”
Troye made no mention of the president in the letter and only said that it has been “the experience of a life time” supporting Pence and her group on the coronavirus effort.
Dartunorro Clark is a political reporter for NBC News.
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