When former homeland security and counterterrorism advisor Olivia Troye began her tenure at the Trump White House in 2018, she said she remembers one particularly “horrifying” meeting when civil servants tried to push back against the former president’s policies.
As Trump officials discussed the former president’s plans to ultimately separate 2,700 children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border, Troye said Trump officials acknowledged that they had “lost track of where the parents are.”
