On Wednesday, Olivia Troye, Vice President Mike Pence’s top aide on the White House’s ill-fated and much-maligned coronavirus task force, came out publicly against Donald Trump, and specifically his handling of the covid-19 pandemic. She’s going to be voting for Joe Biden, and she wants other Republicans to join her.
, Troye, a lifelong Republican, spells out all of the reasons why she cannot in good conscience vote for Trump this year. As a member of the task force from “day one,” she declares that by mid-February,“We knew it wasn’t a matter of if covid would become a big pandemic here in the United States, it was a matter of when.”
But, she says, “[T]he 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 affectNone of this is particularly new information, but to hear it coming from the lips of a senior aide to Pence, who has first-hand experience of how Trump handled the covid-19 pandemic in private hits differently.
Troye, in the video, also shares this “fun”—if wholly unsurprising—anecdote about our germophobe in chief, saying, “When we were in a task force meeting, the president said, ‘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.’ Those disgusting people are the same people that he claims to care about.
if somewhat belatedly, doing the right thing. And among the Republicans who have broken with Trump, she stands out as someone who is risking quite a bit more than others. As Susan Glasser, Troye “is young, only forty-three years old, with a long career ahead of her, and she was willing to put it all on the line publicly, whereas people like [Jim] Mattis and [John]Kelly were not.
And Troye has already been under attack, even by the vice president, a man she continues to say she holds an extreme amount of respect for. On Thursday, when asked by the
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