Former Pence Advisor: Trump Often Derailed COVID Meetings To Rant About Fox News Being Mean To Him

Mediaite reports:

The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser interviewed former Pence advisor Olivai Troye Thursday, which she discussed during a Friday morning appearance on CNN’s New Day. Glasser told host Alisyn Camerota that, according to Troye, Trump often derailed coronavirus task force meetings and was “only focused solely on the election.”

She also noted “several times” when President Trump would enter the room of a coronavirus task force meeting, and participants “would try to get him to focus on the business at hand,” but that Trump would instead “be ranting and raving about Fox News and how they weren’t being nice enough to him.”

Olivia Troye is a profile in courage. Listen to her.https://t.co/dvwhIzE8C0

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 18, 2020

Wow. @OliviaTroye was Pence’s lead staffer on COVID. “When we were in a task force meeting, the president said, ‘maybe this COVID thing is a good thing… I don’t have to shake hands with these disgusting people.'”

He was talking about his own supporters.pic.twitter.com/BA11Eoh3GK

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 17, 2020