Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has released a new ad starring two people who worked in former President Donald Trump’s first administration.
The ad features Kevin Carroll, a former senior counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, and Olivia Troye, a former homeland security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence. The two one-time Trump White House officials discuss what they say is his calamitous response to providing disaster relief.
“Never in a million years did I think that I’d be working in the White House with a president that didn’t care about the American people,” said Troye toward the start of the ad.
The two officials then went on to recount how Trump didn’t want to provide disaster relief to California after it suffered from a deadly wildfire on the grounds that the state had voted heavily against him in the 2016 presidential election.
“He would suggest not giving disaster relief to states that hadn’t voted for him,” said Carroll.
“This isn’t normal,” added Troye. “The job of the president is to protect Americans, regardless of politics.”
Carroll then warned that if Trump wins another presidential election, “There will be no one to stop his worst instincts” and “you’ll have yes-men help him implement Project 2025’s agenda: Unchecked power, no guardrails.”
Carroll and Troye aren’t the only two former Trump officials to claim that he politicized disaster relief, as Mark Harvey, Trump’s one-time senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council staff, recently revealed that he once convinced Trump to authorize disaster relief to California by pulling up voting results showing a significant concentration of Republican voters in Orange County.
