Former Advisor To Pence Criticises Trump & Endorses Biden

Former aide to Vice President Mike Pence, Olivia Troye has criticised Donald Trump over his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. She has said that the President could have saved lives if he wasn’t more concerned about the upcoming elections in the United States.

Troye, who served as a homeland security adviser to Pence and his lead staffer on the White House’s coronavirus task force, has criticised Trump for his failure to respond to the outbreak, which has led to the deaths of 197,633 Americans to date, according to .

“Towards the middle of February, we knew it wasn’t a matter of if COVID would become a big pandemic here, it was a matter of when,” Troye, who left the White House in late July, told . “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?”

Troye also claimed that Trump suggested “maybe this COVID thing is a good thing.”

“I don’t like shaking hands with people. I don’t have to shake hands with these disgusting people,” Trump said, according to Troye. “Those disgusting people are the people he’s supposed to care about.”

Troye, a lifelong Republican also reportedly went on to say that if the president had handled the COVID-19 outbreak seriously, he would have saved lives and says that she is now endorsing Joe Biden, despite her political affiliations.

The White House responded swiftly to Troye’s allegations by accusing her of being a disgruntled employee.

“(T)he people get a hold of her and say, ‘Let’s say some bad things about Donald Trump’,” Trump said. “Every time somebody leaves government — 99% of the time I’m not going to know these people. And they leave on a basis of almost like it’s a personal thing with me.”

As for Vice President Pence, he also branded her a disgruntled employee and accused her of “playing politics”.

“I haven’t read her comments in any detail, but it reads to me like one more disgruntled employee who’s left the White House and now has decided to play politics during an election year,” Pence said when asked about Troye’s statements by reporters. “[I] couldn’t be more proud of the work we’ve done all along the way and the leadership that President Trump has provided.”

Originally published at https://essentialmillennial.com on September 18, 2020.