Ex-Pence aide slams culture of fear in Trump's White House: He'd 'examine every woman in the room'

Matthew Chapman
September 25, 2023 

Olivia Troye in a new ad by Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform (screengrab).

Former Mike Pence Homeland Security staffer Olivia Troye laid into the way women were treated in former President Donald Trump's White House on Monday's edition of CNN's "OutFront."

This comes amid the release of former White House staffer and January 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson's book, which is slated for release this week and could already invite retaliation by Trump's inner circle.

"So Olivia, in this book, we are learning new things," said anchor Erin Burnett. "Of course, allegations that she was assaulted by, groped by Rudy Giuliani on January 6th, first and foremost, among them. She said they were backstage at Trump's speech near the White House. He puts his hand under her blazer and her skirt, and he's leering up at her. I mean, the writing is captivating in a horrific and disgusting way. Did that surprise you when you read that, Olivia?"

"Well, I certainly found it completely despicable and disgusting," said Troye. "It enraged me when I heard about this. And I was so angry, and I also felt, just as someone who is senior staff in the White House thinking about the environment of what women faced in the Trump White House and also just someone who is starting out in their career, that's the last thing that I want someone like Cassidy to face. But, unfortunately, this was the environment that we were in. And it was very misogynistic. It doesn't surprise me."

Troye added that she "sat in meetings with the president himself where he would pretty much examine every woman in the room," and "he would look at us from head to toe and look at what we were wearing. Rudy Giuliani, a similar personality, as well as [trade adviser] Peter Navarro. They're out there still today, this past weekend, referring to us in very derogatory terms. This is how these men view women."

Regardless of what Trump and his allies try to say, Troye said that Hutchinson was "one of the most critical members of the staff in the West Wing."
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"They try to be disparaging in these terms," she closed. "So when these attacks come out against her and they refute these things, she doesn't have a reason to lie."

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