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dawg day

(7,947 posts)
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 05:52 PM Apr 2020

Trump erupts at campaign manager as reelection stress overflows

Source: CNN

As he huddled with advisers on Friday evening, President Donald Trump was still fuming over his sliding poll numbers and the onslaught of criticism he was facing for suggesting a day earlier that ingesting disinfectant might prove effective against coronavirus.

Within moments, the President was shouting -- not at the aides in the room, but into the phone -- at his campaign manager Brad Parscale, three people familiar with the matter told CNN. Shifting the blame away from himself, Trump berated Parscale for a recent spate of damaging poll numbers, even at one point threatening to sue Parscale. It's not clear how serious the President's threat of a lawsuit was.
The White House did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment and the Trump campaign declined to comment.
Faced with an increasingly uphill battle for reelection and aides trying to steer him in new, sometimes conflicting directions, Trump has grown increasingly unnerved in the last week about his reelection prospects. Lashing out at Parscale was just the most recent manifestation of that anxiety.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/donald-trump-brad-parscale-campaign-coronavirus/index.html



I'm chortling because Parscale was probably all mixed up with "the Russia thing" and totally got away with it, so it's great to see the scorpion turn on him.
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Trump erupts at campaign manager as reelection stress overflows (Original Post) dawg day Apr 2020 OP
"Shifting the blame away from himself" - of course; that's what he always does. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #1
Too funny mercuryblues Apr 2020 #2
Ha Ha Ha Ha ROTFLMAO voteearlyvoteoften Apr 2020 #3
If I had either of them on the phone, I'd be screaming too. Kid Berwyn Apr 2020 #4
He really needs to fire Pascale for those lousy poll numbers ! kimbutgar Apr 2020 #5
Best scenario ... FakeNoose Apr 2020 #6
Parscale could release Scarsdale Apr 2020 #21
Undoubtedly Parscale's got campaign spending leverage, which Trump would claim no knowledge of. ancianita Apr 2020 #25
EVery day rump and the gop commit voluntary manslaughter and most of us mistakenly Eliot Rosewater Apr 2020 #7
Couldn't Happen To A More Deserving Smug Guy Excepting Jared Me. Apr 2020 #8
Oh, I don't know DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #36
McConnell May Be Evil Me. Apr 2020 #37
In my mind DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #41
In My Mind The Two Are Me. Apr 2020 #44
Reaping Faux pas Apr 2020 #9
"Increasingly unnerved about his reelection prospects" tanyev Apr 2020 #10
His re-election is guaranteed. By the same people who. olddad65 Apr 2020 #13
In other news, tRump is threatening the virus with a massive lawsuit. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #11
OMG homeboy getting belittled! MuseRider Apr 2020 #12
Counting down the minutes until the WH accuses CNN of faking this report. maxsolomon Apr 2020 #14
He should sue himself for defamation e central scrutinizer Apr 2020 #15
Why the hell does he even want to be president? milestogo Apr 2020 #16
Vanity. maxsolomon Apr 2020 #19
And he CAN'T ever be a LOSER. maddiemom Apr 2020 #20
Why? Scarsdale Apr 2020 #22
Prison awaits. truthisfreedom Apr 2020 #28
I don't think originally he wanted to be president DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #43
Fear of prison? UpInArms May 2020 #47
Suffer hard Parscale, suffer irisblue Apr 2020 #17
Parscale has said often that working for trumpie Haggis for Breakfast Apr 2020 #32
Yeah, he's finding out not fooled Apr 2020 #35
Because the "numbers" are all that matters to Generalissimo Corpulente. Grokenstein Apr 2020 #18
"Trump Reportedly Threatened to Sue His Own Campaign Manager." Botany Apr 2020 #23
"I'm going to sue you because my polls are bad!" dawg day Apr 2020 #38
I hope he has a fatal stroke, dotard that is. warmfeet Apr 2020 #24
k and R riversedge Apr 2020 #26
Morbidly obese orange moron seems to want to have a stroke. Hassler Apr 2020 #27
Trump is a malignant narcissist. Beacool Apr 2020 #29
Anyone who would agree to work for this monstrosity has volunteered to get tossed like a rag doll. Judi Lynn Apr 2020 #30
So true that I'm laughing with recognition. ancianita Apr 2020 #33
He's losing it. Love it. Joinfortmill Apr 2020 #31
Trump is reenacting the fall of Berlin meme movie clip of Hitler. Nitram Apr 2020 #34
one sells llashram Apr 2020 #39
Captain Clorox wants to sue his criminal campaign manager for...making him say shit? lagomorph777 Apr 2020 #40
"Shifting the blame away from himself" apnu Apr 2020 #42
From the Lincoln Project Gothmog May 2020 #45
Only the best people...with that said... Xolodno May 2020 #46
Parscale gets paid regardless of whether Trump wins or loses so he doesn't care. yellowcanine May 2020 #48

The Velveteen Ocelot

(116,487 posts)
1. "Shifting the blame away from himself" - of course; that's what he always does.
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 05:54 PM
Apr 2020

You'd think that by now everyone in the world should know that working for Trump in any capacity is a career death sentence.

mercuryblues

(14,609 posts)
2. Too funny
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 05:55 PM
Apr 2020

the idiot is threatening to sue his campaign manager because his POLL NUMBERS are taking. I am betting those are internal poll numbers. LOL

Sounds like good news to me.

Kid Berwyn

(15,527 posts)
4. If I had either of them on the phone, I'd be screaming too.
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 05:56 PM
Apr 2020

And I wouldn’t hold back detailing Trump’s treasons and criminal dereliction of duty.

Thanks for less than nothing, Putin!

FakeNoose

(33,349 posts)
6. Best scenario ...
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 05:57 PM
Apr 2020

... Chump fires Parscale, Parscale then publishes a "tell-all" book that gives up all the phone calls and contacts with Putin since 2015. He DOES know where the bodies are buried!



Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
21. Parscale could release
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 07:29 PM
Apr 2020

the records of how much Eric Trump's wife and Jr.'s girlfriend are being paid from campaign funds. Reportedly $15,000 monthly. I would not be surprised if the campaign is also paying child support for Jr.'s 5 kids. Parscale is living the high life with this "job". Raking in the dough.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,234 posts)
7. EVery day rump and the gop commit voluntary manslaughter and most of us mistakenly
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 05:57 PM
Apr 2020

think we can wait for an election that will be drastically compromised.

Rump is a killer but for him it is simply because his brain is broken and he cant care about human life.

DENVERPOPS

(9,094 posts)
36. Oh, I don't know
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 10:48 PM
Apr 2020

Without McConnell Trump, Jared, and Ivanka wouldn't last a minute. McConnell and his band of merry RepubliCON senators........

Me.

(35,454 posts)
37. McConnell May Be Evil
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 11:09 PM
Apr 2020

Parscale is supplying them with the data and what he learned from Cambridge Analytica. And he is as arrogant as Jared.

DENVERPOPS

(9,094 posts)
41. In my mind
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 01:18 PM
Apr 2020

the two most despicable politicians ever are Cheney and McConnell, with countless others close seconds......

tanyev

(42,903 posts)
10. "Increasingly unnerved about his reelection prospects"
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 06:11 PM
Apr 2020

He’s cool with over 60,000 Americans dying from the virus, though.

olddad65

(599 posts)
13. His re-election is guaranteed. By the same people who.
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 06:34 PM
Apr 2020

Rigged the last one. Putin is not going to lose his stooge in the oval office.

MuseRider

(34,205 posts)
12. OMG homeboy getting belittled!
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 06:29 PM
Apr 2020

I want to see him go down with the entire leaky, molding, stinky ship. All of them yelling at each other? Oh that is priceless. This is good news.

maxsolomon

(33,582 posts)
14. Counting down the minutes until the WH accuses CNN of faking this report.
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 06:34 PM
Apr 2020

1, it sounds EXACTLY like Trump.
2, it COULD be trolling - a source in the WH fed it to CNN so they could accuse them of inventing stories.
3, assuming it's true (it's true), he's got a leak right in his inner circle of advisers.

Either way, "suing" your campaign manager?

ROFL and FUCK TRUMP. And Parscale.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
22. Why?
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 07:35 PM
Apr 2020

Free golf, free travel, making money ignoring the emoluments clause. Also, as soon as he leaves, the State of NY has several charges that will be brought against him. This is the best scam he has EVER fallen into his entire screwed up life.

DENVERPOPS

(9,094 posts)
43. I don't think originally he wanted to be president
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 01:28 PM
Apr 2020

He thought he would just parade around, drawing attention to himself...............

Then Putin turned him and many others into agents of Russia by blackmailing them all.......

Putin was worried sick about Hillary being president. Period. She was probably THE most qualified person in recent history to be the Nation's president......

UpInArms

(51,313 posts)
47. Fear of prison?
Wed May 20, 2020, 10:06 PM
May 2020

doesn't like orange jumpsuits?

hates jangley chains around his big fat middle?

can't wear flat slides? (prison issue)

I could go on ... and on ...

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
32. Parscale has said often that working for trumpie
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 10:05 PM
Apr 2020

has been financially rewarding for his family. Don't know what that means, but if he gets fired, maybe the entire Parscale clan can file for unemployment.

To me, he's just a younger, more vicious, more motivated version of Roger Stone.

not fooled

(5,825 posts)
35. Yeah, he's finding out
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 10:35 PM
Apr 2020

that it was a lot easier to con a bunch of dimwitted maggots into voting for orange anus the first time than it will be trying to fool the entire nation into re-installing him after his epic screw up on coronavirus.

Botany

(70,851 posts)
23. "Trump Reportedly Threatened to Sue His Own Campaign Manager."
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 07:47 PM
Apr 2020



President Donald Trump reportedly berated and then threatened to sue his own 2020 presidential campaign manager, Brad Parscale, during a conference call with political advisers last Friday. According to a new report from CNN that cites three people who were in the room at the time, the president was “fuming” over the continued criticism he was receiving for suggesting that injecting disinfectant could be an effective treatment for the coronavirus and shouted at Parscale over the significant decline in his poll numbers. “It’s not clear how serious the president’s threat of a lawsuit was,” the CNN report added.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reportedly-threatened-to-sue-his-own-campaign-manager-brad-parscale?ref=home

Beacool

(30,257 posts)
29. Trump is a malignant narcissist.
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 09:39 PM
Apr 2020

He never takes responsibility for anything. It's always someone else's fault when things go sideways.

What a POS....


Judi Lynn

(160,926 posts)
30. Anyone who would agree to work for this monstrosity has volunteered to get tossed like a rag doll.
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 09:44 PM
Apr 2020

There has to be something really defective in them already, that they actually approved of him from the start.

They, unlike Trump, have no one else they can blame when they get body slammed right in front of a speeding bus.



Brad Barscale, with quote unquote broken fingers.

Maybe the Orange Nightmare caught him trying to drink from his gold toilet and slammed the lid on them.

llashram

(6,265 posts)
39. one sells
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 11:50 AM
Apr 2020

one's soul to the devil, expect to eventually get scorched, badly. Paescale deserves everything he gets as well as ALL who are too timid, afraid or just plain fearful of the orange man in the clown suit to throw them some crumbs and scraps from his table. I now understand why as a child I always cried at the circus if a clown got too close to me.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
40. Captain Clorox wants to sue his criminal campaign manager for...making him say shit?
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 12:05 PM
Apr 2020

I don't think anybody made him say that shit. Except maybe his inner demons.

Xolodno

(6,447 posts)
46. Only the best people...with that said...
Wed May 20, 2020, 08:46 PM
May 2020

For Brad Barscale, this is his first real campaign. He was the digital campaign manager for Trump during his first run.

In other words, he doesn't have a fucking clue what he's doing (with the caveat, he does know what Trump is doing isn't helping)....and probably doesn't give a shit either. He's getting paid well and taking it....its his final meal ticket weather Trump win's or lose's. I wouldn't be surprised if he suggested to bring on Karl Rove as a consultant...not to actually help Trump win, but to network for future jobs.

yellowcanine

(35,730 posts)
48. Parscale gets paid regardless of whether Trump wins or loses so he doesn't care.
Thu May 21, 2020, 04:33 PM
May 2020

At least he thinks he does. T-Rump could fire him and stiff him on his money.

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