Ex-Pence Aide Rips Trump Over ‘Frightening’ COVID-19 Response

Olivia Troye, a former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence who announced last week that she plans to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, recounted what she viewed as President Trump’s “frightening” COVID-19 response during an interview set to air on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday.


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It’s interesting to find out what the “bottom line” number is on the Rep side. What percentage of the Rep vote can you get no matter who you are as a person or candidate.
In Alabama it was just short of 50% as we saw in 18. I’m guessing the national number is around 40%.

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The GOP default percentage is much higher than it should be…but Ms.Troye’s words will net us some votes.

That was the general reaction we saw, days ago, from her TV appearances, before the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Let me add here this incredible social item: Trump is so evil, crooked, corrupt and incompetent that what Ms. Troye is saying would remove from Office most presidents before Trump.

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It shows that even someone who is willing to work for Pence can have some connection to reality.

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Until she expressed her “respect” for him. There is absolutely nothing to respect about susPence.

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“My former boss was a fanatical right-wing Jesus freak who would drive over a group of schoolchildren if Spanky told him to, but I still respect him!”

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Right. Tell the truth or continue to support a monster as President of the United States. Hmmm, this requires some deep thinking…

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“I can’t imagine how any, honestly, normal human being would ever say that out loud in the middle of a pandemic,” Troye said.

Let’s all hope that it never happens.

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I think I spot the problem right there.

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Almost everything we knew about him (in a substantiated way, totally accepted by everyone) before the election would have disqualified or rendered unelectable any candidate before tRUmp.

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Pence is a dangerous, Taliban-like, corrupt, wooden goon.

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Yikes!ANOTHER disgruntled employee just haphazardly throwing stuff out there?More like another serious person with a career in public service that can’t believe how craven and twisted the Republicans have become…unfortunately this level of concern and sense of obligation will never be realized by a GOP Senator. Cowardice stalks the corridors of Congress.