More about ex Pence staffer Olivia Troye from New Yorker's Susan Glasser
Really interesting pc, Troye spoke out despite concerns about threats to her family & possibly tanking a great career
She is a hero!
#VoteOutTrump
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2-"When I spoke with Olivia Troye on Thursday afternoon, she sounded more than a little scared. She was about to go public with a scorching video, in which she would denounce President Donald Trump and his stewardship of the country during the coronavirus pandemic. Troye,
3-"who served as Vice-President Mike Pence’s adviser for homeland security until late July, has witnessed the Administration’s response to the crisis, as Pence’s top aide on the White House coronavirus task force.
4-"She had seen Trump rant in private about Fox News coverage as his public-health advisers desperately tried to get him to focus on a disease that has now killed some two hundred thousand Americans. She had decided that Trump was lying to the American public about the disease,
5-"and that ‘words matter, especially when you’re the President of the United States,’ and that it was time to speak out. She was nervous and scared and worried for her family and her career. But she plunged ahead anyway.
6-"I asked about her firsthand observation of the President during the crisis. She said that Trump was ‘disruptive.’ That he could not ‘focus.’ That he was consumed by himself and his prospects in November.
7-"‘For him, it was all about the election,’ Troye told me. ‘He just can’t seem to care about anyone else besides himself.’" ~New Yorker
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