Fmr. VP Aide: ‘There Are Still People Walking Around the White House Today Who Don’t Actually Believe This Virus Is Real’

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TROYE: “I think it’s a combination of both, to be honest. I think there are still people walking around the White House today who don’t actually believe this virus is real. A lot of them disregard it. Even though, as you have seen, we have got over 7 million cases and we have lost a lot of lives here, and we’re still watching this globally happen across the world. Everyone’s trying to figure out how we get past this. So I think it was a combination of both, and another part of it was trying to fit the data and the guidelines and everything to the President’s narrative of, you know, 'Don’t mind this. Everything’s fine. We’re over it. We have done great. Time to open back up, get people in schools, get people — get the country and the economy going.' It’s all part of the greater messaging narrative of what the President is trying to say. It’s just factually — it's not true.”