Olivia Troye, who worked as an adviser to Vice President Mike Pence before leaving in August, appeared in an ad where she shared damning anecdotes that portrayed President Trump as a debilitating actor in containing the coronavirus
In an ad released on Thursday, a former senior adviser on the White House coronavirus task force lambasted President Donald Trump as a stonewalling, capricious leader with more concern for his reelection than the pandemic, and said she would be voting for his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, in November.
Troye also asserted that Trump said during a meeting: “Maybe this Covid thing’s a good thing. I don’t like shaking hands with people. I don’t have to shake hands with these disgusting people.” Troye is an avowed Republican, and the ad was run by the group Republican Voters Against Trump. The Washington Post firstThe White House promptly rebuffed the allegations, using its frequent defense against personnel-turned-critics by saying that Troye was a disgruntled and vindictive ex-staffer. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnanyThursday night a letter by Troye after her departure from the White House. It praised the task force’s work combating the disease.
But Troye’s criticisms were directed at the president specifically, not the administration. In the ad, she said working with the task force was the “opportunity and honor of a lifetime.”
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