Brad Parscale meltdown

Roxxsmom · Sep 30, 2020

This kind of got lost in the mayhem of the past few days, but Brad Parscale, Trump's former campaign manager who was demoted, was taken into police custody a few days back. He was drunk and disorderly, discharged a firearm, and his wife (who showed bruising on her arms) feared he was suicidal. He resisted arrest and had to be tackled by a member of the swat team, who showed the extent to which police can and will go to not shoot resistant and possibly armed offenders when said offender is white . But ya, that's off track. Sorry.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/28/9176...mp-campaign-is-hospitalized-after-call-to-pol

As police tried to figure out the circumstances inside the house, they learned of multiple weapons there, including pistols and rifles.

Parscale began to barricade himself inside and repeatedly hung up on attempts to talk to him, the police report said. But he later spoke to negotiators. And at one point, the report said, he drank a beer on his driveway. More than three hours passed from the time officers arrived around 3:43 p.m. to when the encounter was deemed to have concluded, just before 7 p.m., according to the report.

In body camera footage released Monday by the police department, an officer asks Parscale over the phone to walk outside with no weapons.

The video shows Parscale walking down the driveway shirtless. Parscale starts to talk to the officer wearing a body camera when another officer runs over and yells at him to get on the ground. Seconds later, that officer tackles him. "I didn't do anything," Parscale protests as several officers roll him over and handcuff him behind his back.

According to the police report, Parscale's wife had bruises on both her arms. She said she sustained the injuries "a few days ago, during a physical altercation with Bradley, which she did not report," the document said.

Now, according to a vanity fair article (and note, Vanity fair is termed liberal biased and mostly factual, not the highest fact-checking rating, but not horrific, but I'd like to see corroboration here) Trump's family is worried Parscale, who is also under investigation for stealing from the campaign, might talk as part of a deal.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202...zn5k7Yvh9-UyCMi-RWo8AQm3QpqiTq6JpWZSYqnFqRb0Q

Some other interesting stuff in the Vanity Fair article about what it's like, in general to work for the Trump campaign and how impossible it is to convince DJT that maybe he blew it and likely didn't win over any undecided voters with his performance last night.

MaeZe · Sep 30, 2020

Forbes: Non-Partisan Watchdog Accuses Trump Campaign Of ‘Laundering’ $170 Million

The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission Tuesday accusing the Trump campaign of “laundering” $170 million through numerous companies, some with connections to former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.

Dipping in the donation trough, I believe. And the piper payment was coming due. That can stress a person out.

“The Trump campaign and Trump Make America Great Again Committee disguised nearly $170 million of campaign spending by laundering the funds through firms,” the complaint claims.

It adds that the firms are “headed by Trump’s recent campaign manager, Brad Parscale, and/or created by Trump campaign lawyers.”

The complaint alleges that the Trump campaign paid millions of dollars to campaign-connected vendors without reporting those payments to the FEC, specifically homing in on American Made Media Consultants (AMMC), a firm created by Parscale, which has been paid over $106 million, making it the campaigns largest vendor.

AMMC was ostensibly created to circumvent media buyers, but the complaint points to FCC records that show the campaign has used media buying firm Harris Sikes to place some of its ads, alleging the campaign is “failing to report payments to the firms and is instead using AMMC as a conduit for its payments to the firms.”

The complaint also points to an app called Phunware, which Parscale has said was created and is “directly owned” by the campaign, but which has never appeared in the campaign’s spending reports because, as the complaint alleges, it was paid through AMMC.

Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh denied the charges made in the complaint, telling Forbes, “The campaign reports all payments to AMMC as required by the FEC. The campaign complies with all campaign finance laws and FEC regulations.”

Trump the crook is so damn greedy. He hasn't been caught because so far he's controlled the investigators.

The allegation comes amid reports that the Trump campaign also moved millions in campaign funds to Trump’s private business interests. Forbes’ Dan Alexander and Michela Tindera reported earlier this month that the Trump campaign has pushed nearly $7 million towards Trump’s businesses since the president entered office.

That last paragraph should be the headline.

mccardey · Sep 30, 2020

Poor Sarah Kendzior, who has been telling us this for years.

Ravioli · Oct 1, 2020

I'm not sorry for Trump staff regretting their poor life choices, but that video where the cop tackles and floors him for calmly standing around is just sickening. How do you not get fired and locked up for tossing people who are obviously no threat? You do that as a civilian, you get the clothes sued off your ass.

Chris P · Oct 1, 2020

Ravioli said:
I'm not sorry for Trump staff regretting their poor life choices, but that video where the cop tackles and floors him for calmly standing around is just sickening. How do you not get fired and locked up for tossing people who are obviously no threat? You do that as a civilian, you get the clothes sued off your ass.

Would that tossing were the worst that happened to people. I found this webpage that provides information about people killed by police. Most were unarmed, and not combative with the police who killed them. https://sayevery.name/

cbenoi1 · Oct 1, 2020

Roxxsmom said:
Some other interesting stuff in the Vanity Fair article about what it's like, in general to work for the Trump campaign and how impossible it is to convince DJT that maybe he blew it {...}

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." — Napoleon Bonaparte

-cb

Cobalt Jade · Oct 1, 2020

I am confused. Is this the same man who went off about COVID conspiracies on Twitter, then resigned because he had cancer?

Lauram6123 · Oct 1, 2020

Cobalt Jade said:
I am confused. Is this the same man who went off about COVID conspiracies on Twitter, then resigned because he had cancer?

Different guy. You're thinking of Michael Caputo.

MaeZe · Oct 1, 2020

Ravioli said:
I'm not sorry for Trump staff regretting their poor life choices, but that video where the cop tackles and floors him for calmly standing around is just sickening. How do you not get fired and locked up for tossing people who are obviously no threat? You do that as a civilian, you get the clothes sued off your ass.

More likely than not, if he were black they would have shot him because it was reported he had a gun.

Ravioli · Oct 2, 2020

I'm aware disgusted by the disproportionate police brutality against black people. But this guy's head could have hit the asphalt a lot harder too, and it's just another incident of "why the fuck is this cop not in prison".

Brad Parscale meltdown

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