Former Pence Aide Speaks Out: “I’m Actually Very Concerned That There Will be Violence on January 6th”

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Currently, protests are scheduled in Washington D.C. for January 6th, the day Congress is set to formally certify Electoral College votes that will officially ensure that President-Elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on January 20th and one former aide to outgoing Vice President Mike Pence is expressing her concern over what she feels is impending violence.

Trump himself, who has continually refused to accept his loss in the election, instead touting baseless claims of voter fraud and rigged systems, has seemingly backed these upcoming protests on his Twitter account, writing, “See you in Washington, DC, on January 6th. Don’t miss it. Information to follow!”

Appearing on MSNBC, Olivia Troye offered her thoughts on the protests as well as Trump’s apparent calls to participate in them, warning that she senses violence on the horizon.

“I’m actually very concerned that there will be violence on January 6th because the president himself is encouraging it,” Troy said to guest MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart. “This is what he does. He tweets, he incites is, and he gets followers and supporters to behave in this manner, and they believe they are being patriots because they’re supporting the president.”

Troy resigned from her role in the White House with honors after serving as the first Trump White House official to openly criticize Donald’s lack of focus on the burgeoning coronavirus pandemic in it’s earliest days but soon found herself dealing with an ultimately ineffective smear campaign hailing straight from the White House after condemning their handling of the pandemic.

“This is a president who calls himself the president of law and order, and we have seen anything but that,” she continued in the MSNBC segment. “We have a bombing on Christmas day. We’ve had protests in the streets. This is all out of control; the divisiveness is through the ceiling because of this man who continues to stoke the flames of these far-right people who show up and think that he’s calling out to them.”

“And so if that is the legacy that he wants, he certainly has it. And it will follow him,” she stated.

You can watch the clip here:

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