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I was curious about Olivia Troye, so did a bit of looking around. Interesting that the wiki page was last edited today. Looks as though once they figured out what a creep she was she was fired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Troye

Early life and education
Originally from El Paso, Texas, Troye is fluent in Spanish. She graduated from University of Pennsylvania, the National Defense University College of International Affairs, and the Naval Postgraduate School.[1]

Career
After graduating from college, Troye worked for the Republican National Committee. She began a career in national security after the September 11 attacks. She served in the Pentagon as a George W. Bush Administration appointee. Troye was an intelligence official in the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis serving as chief of strategy, policy, and plans. Troye worked in the Office of the Vice President of the United States as the homeland security and counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Pence and served as an aide to the White House Coronavirus Task Force.[2][3][4]

While Troye says she resigned, Mike Pence’s national security adviser, Keith Kellogg, claims he fired her and “escorted her off the compound.” He has also more generally accused her of lying about her time in the Trump-Pence administration. Troye has denied the allegations.[5]

After leaving the White House, Troye became an outspoken critic against the Trump Administration’s response on the COVID-19 pandemic. She later publicly supported Joe Biden for the 2020 United States presidential election.[6] Troye endorsed Biden in a video released by Republican Voters Against Trump.[7][8]

In the wake of the collapse of the Afghan government and the the fall of Kabul in August 2021, Troye called attention to deliberate obstruction of the visa process during the Trump Administration for Afghans who were partners with U.S. efforts in Afghanistan.[9]

In August 2020, Troye joined the National Insurance Crime Bureau as vice president of strategy, policy, and plans.[10] Troye is also an advisor to Defending Democracy Together, a conservative, anti-Donald Trump political group known for the “Republicans for the Rule of Law” initiative.

Personal life
According to CNN, Troye is a lifelong Republican.[7] She described herself as a “John McCain Republican” in a video released by Republican Voters Against Trump.[12]

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‘Profiles in cowardice’: WH attacks ‘fired’ pandemic aide Olivia Troye
https://nypost.com/2020/09/22/white-house-attacks-fired-pandemic-aide-olivia-troye/

The White House on Tuesday unloaded on former coronavirus task force staffer Olivia Troye, saying the recently declared opponent of President Trump was “fired” after “complaining” about her workload.

Speaking from the briefing room podium, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, trashed Troye almost a week after she cut an ad for Republican Voters Against Trump.

Troye worked as an aide to the COVID-19 task force and criticized Trump’s handling of the pandemic, saying, “If the president had taken this virus seriously, or if he had actually made an effort to tell how serious it was, he would have slowed the virus spread, he would have saved lives.”

Troye also claimed she heard Trump say in private that the virus was a “good thing” because it would allow him to avoid shaking hands with “disgusting people.”

“I fired her,” said Kellogg, because “her performance had started to drop after six months working on the task force as a backbencher.”

“She was responsible for coordinating meetings, bringing people together and when the performance level dropped off, I went to the vice president of the United States and recommended she leave. I’m the one that escorted her off the compound,” he said of her ouster in August.

Kellogg said he attended task force meetings and “what she has said, I have never heard.”

“I heard the comments made about the people we have lost. Do not think for a minute that that has not bothered us, it does. Because we know on the task force several of those people, scores of those people died without relatives because they couldn’t get in because of COVID. We know that,” Kellogg said.

“That bothers us every single day. Don’t think it doesn’t. And it bothers the president. And the president’s been very confident that we’re going to get to a solution. You want a president, you want a leader that displays confidence.”

Troye quickly rejected Kellogg’s account in a statement denying that she was fired.

“It’s sad that Gen. Kellogg is telling a bald faced lie to protect the president,” Troye said. “I resigned on my own accord [and] was asked to stay. He never escorted me out. He knows this. I wrote a note thanking all the colleagues who had worked so hard with me in spite of POTUS [and] I stand by that.”

Troye said she received a commemorative token from Kellogg bearing his name as a departing gift and that “[t]his gift is not the action of someone who did what Kellogg claims he did.”

At the briefing, McEnany denounced Troye and another member of the pro-Joe Biden group, former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor, who now works at Google and appears on CNN.

“These are not profiles in courage, but these are profiles in cowardice,” McEnany said, citing departure letters from the two former officials.

“Less than two months ago, now-disgruntled former detailee Olivia Troye proudly declared that she was serving in the Trump administration and it had been ‘the honor of her life.’ Troye said, ‘I have witnessed firsthand how dedicated and committed all of you have been to doing the right thing.’ She wrote that just about a month and a half ago,” McEnany said.

“Troye failed to speak up and she struggled to keep up because she was constantly complaining about how exhausted and overwhelmed she was coordinating conference calls and scheduling meetings. Troye’s detail was cut short and now she’s cutting commercials for a fringe club of ‘never Trumpers’ who are desperate for relevancy, and the price of admission to this club is fabricated smears and flat-out lies against President Trump.”

[A bit more at link]