#WALKAWAY: Ex-Pence aide and COVID task force memberwill vote for Biden due to Trump's 'flat out disregard for human life'

A former advisor to Mike Pence and the White House coronavirus taskforce will vote for Joe Biden because of the Donald Trump’s “flat out disregard for human life” during the pandemic.

Olivia Troye, who left the Trump administration in August, said that the president’s main concern was the economy and reelection, and that she wouldn’t trust a Covid-19 vaccine that launches before the November vote.

She joins several former officials, or what the White House calls “disgruntled” ex-employees, to flip on the president to detail the dysfunctional inner workings of his administration’s first term.

“The president’s rhetoric and his own attacks against people in his administration trying to do the work, as well as the promulgation of false narratives and incorrect information of the virus have made this ongoing response a failure,” Ms Troye said.

She was a major, if behind-the-scenes, participant in the White House’s coronavirus taskforce, working closely with Mr Pence on the response, briefing the vice president, writing his comments, and setting meeting agendas, according to the Post.

“I would not tell anyone I care about to take a vaccine that launches prior to the election… I would listen to the experts and the unity in pharma. And I would wait to make sure that this vaccine is safe and not a prop tied to an election,” she said.

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