Former Homeland Security adviser to Mike Pence, Olivia Troye revealed Tuesday that Donald Trump's former trade adviser Peter Navarro was outright violent with her and other women.
Speaking to the co-hosts of "The View," Troye recalled interactions with Navarro in which she said he grabbed her.
Former White House colleague, View host Alyssa Farah Griffin, thanked Troye for being so supportive and helpful to her after she spoke out against Trump publicly. She also noted their mutual friend and former colleague Cassidy Hutchinson's recently published a tell all book – and Navarro tweeted after it was released asking why men in the White House would ever hire women again.
Navarro went on to call them "pimp ladies."
"What is a pimp lady?" asked Sunny Hostin.
"I don't know if they're comparing us to a certain group of people or what is going on here," Troye confessed. "I would say it's typical Peter Navarro, and what is really frustrating is how disparaging they are, especially towards women. And it's been the women that have been the strongest, I would say, in many ways in speaking out against Trump. Across the board. And when they'd have nothing else to attack us about, it's about us being ladies of the night, to put it in a kinder term or whatever disparaging thing they want to say."
She went on to call Navarro the "craziest" among those working in the Trump White House.
"Whole new level there," Troye continued. "I will say I was under strict orders by Mike Pence's chief of staff [Marc Short] to keep [Navarro] out of his office and to not let in any of the documents or propaganda he was issuing. I say propaganda because a lot of it was just kind of crazy stuff he was writing up memos on, especially during the COVID pandemic.
"There was a time in the West Wing when he actually walked up — and I literally took the documents out of his hand and said thank you, I'll make sure he gets them, meaning I'll shred them right now. My job was for it not to get into the office and spread disinformation. He actually grabbed my wrist and grabbed my hand and wanted to wrestle the papers out of me. And you could see the anger. And he is a bully and he is mean and he's — you know, he has that violence in him."
That was on display when Navarro attempted to go after a protester holding up a sign outside of his contempt on Congress trial last month in which he was convicted after defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 select committee.
She went on to say that she saw Navarro do the same thing with Dr. Stephen Hahn, the former FDA commissioner.
"He got in a screaming match where Marc Short, the vice president's chief of staff at the time, Mike Pence, at the time had actually come in and interrupted the argument and be like, okay what are you doing?" recalled Troye. "He was yelling at him about hydroxychloroquine."
Whoopi Goldberg asked why Trump allies don't understand that the way that they treat women and stories about them disparaging women drives female voters away from not only him, but the Republican Party as a whole.
"Because they keep saying we've got to get more women," she continued. Every time they — then they come out with a line of craziness like that. What's happening? Are they just slowly going crazy because they don't know what else to do? What's going on?"
Troye agreed: "Certainly think that's part of it. I think that they've got nothing else to go to, and they start to mudslinging. That tweet to me was so offensive because I was like, what you're saying to women is that we don't belong in the White House, that we don't belong in those jobs in the White House and, like, I think that is what is so frustrating. That's what you're saying to young women across the country."
Goldberg said that it's also telling women they can't call something out when they see that it is wrong.
See the interview clip in the video below or at the link here.
