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Posted: 2020-09-18T21:59:01Z | Updated: 2020-09-18T21:59:01Z

A former senior adviser on the White House coronavirus task force made national news on Thursday when she issued a damning condemnation of President Donald Trump s response to the pandemic, alleging that he showed a flat-out disregard for human life and botched handling the virus because of concerns about his reelection. She has endorsed Democratic rival Joe Biden.

On Fox News, however, the story was ignored.

Other news media and cable networks widely covered the allegations from Olivia Troye a former homeland security, counterterrorism and coronavirus adviser to Vice President Mike Pence who left the White House in August after two years of working for Pence.

But none of Fox News programming Thursday or Friday morning addressed Troyes claim that Trumps mismanagement and his spreading of coronavirus falsehoods cost American lives, according to an analysis from Media Matters for America and a HuffPost review of Fox News prime-time transcripts.

The reproach received a brief mention on Fox Business, with host Lou Dobbs dismissing her allegations and bringing on Pences national security adviser Keith Kellogg to defend the Trump administration.