Editor's note: Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journalist, political analyst and freelance reporter. The article reflects the author's opinions, not necessarily the views of CGTN.

Another Trump administration's former official has joined the ever-growing list of Republicans who have denounced the president, or gone far enough to endorse his opponent, the Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden. 

Olivia Troye, who served as a homeland security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence and served as a top organizer for the White House Coronavirus Task Force that Pence leads, endorsed Biden after calling her time in the administration "awful" and "terrifying."

"The truth is he doesn't actually care about anyone else but himself," she said in a video released by the organization Republican Voters Against Trump. "If the president had taken this virus seriously, he would have slowed the virus spread, he would have saved lives."

She reiterated once again that the administration knew by around mid-February that the coronavirus would become a pandemic in the U.S. and that it was shocking to see the president downplay the virus. But, she said, Trump has been more concerned about this year's election and maintains what he believes to be his success as president.

"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," she said in another interview with the Washington Post, adding that she wished she had fought harder against these actions while on staff.

This is not just a disillusioned former Republican official that disagrees with Trump along some ideological line, or a person who had a personal falling out with the president, but someone who is very familiar with the president's coronavirus response and is horrified by it.

Predictably, Trump and Pence have swooped in to downplay her knowledge or involvement in the response. Both men and their teams have accused her of being a disgruntled former employee that never raised an objection while being on staff. The categorization is quite similar to how they've painted other officials who spoke out, i.e. somehow part of a "deep state" conspiracy against the president.

"I haven't read her comments in any detail, but it reads to me like one more disgruntled employee who's left the White House and now has decided to play politics during an election year," Pence said of Troye.

However, a former senior Trump administration official, Miles Taylor, told CNN's Chris Cuomo that he had seen Pence praise Troye. "Olivia Troye is doing an incredible job," Pence apparently told Taylor over lunch on one occasion.

Her statements about the administration realizing the seriousness of the virus in February also lines up with Trump's own statements to journalist Bob Woodward in his newly published book, "Rage."

Victim posturing by the administration aside, the fact is that Troye's account is reliable and should be heard loud and clear by Americans as the death toll from the virus in the country edges toward 200,000. She is a lifelong Republican who landed her dream job and later left that post horrified by the "flat-out disregard for human life."

In an ABC News town hall earlier in the week, Trump undoubtedly displayed that disregard for human life by obfuscating and lying to Pennsylvania voters.

He jumped around one question asked by a voter about the status of pre-existing conditions under his health care plan that has been in the works and never passed after nearly four years.

In this non-response, he claimed that he would protect those with pre-existing conditions while, as ABC host George Stephanopoulos pointed out, his administration is "in court" right now to repeal these protections granted under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare).

In another bizarre stunt, Trump compared himself to Winston Churchill, the prime minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, by referring to Churchill's calls for citizens to keep calm while London was being bombed by Nazi Germany. This is, to the president, analogous to his obvious deceit surrounding the coronavirus.

He also somehow forgot that he's the sitting president while criticizing his electoral opponent over a national mask mandate.

"They said at the Democratic National Convention they're going to do a national mandate. They never did it, because they've checked out, and they didn't do it. And like Joe Biden. They said, 'We're going to a national mandate on masks.' But he didn't do it. He never did it," Trump said.

The president likes to act like his administration has done more than any other in history and in some sense that's actually true. In many people's eyes, he has indeed managed to lie, deceive and soil the office of the president more than any president in history.

Unfortunately, the American people have had to pay the price despite the ever-growing list of officials that directly implicate him for the horrible consequences of his administration's actions.

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