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.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,487 posts)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)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.
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)He has jumped the shark...
Kid Berwyn
(15,527 posts)And I wouldnt hold back detailing Trumps treasons and criminal dereliction of duty.
Thanks for less than nothing, Putin!
kimbutgar
(21,413 posts)FakeNoose
(33,349 posts)... 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)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.
ancianita
(36,443 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,234 posts)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.
Me.
(35,454 posts)DENVERPOPS
(9,094 posts)Without McConnell Trump, Jared, and Ivanka wouldn't last a minute. McConnell and his band of merry RepubliCON senators........
Me.
(35,454 posts)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)the two most despicable politicians ever are Cheney and McConnell, with countless others close seconds......
Me.
(35,454 posts)The WH Menace and Jared
Faux pas
(14,783 posts)and sowing
tanyev
(42,903 posts)Hes cool with over 60,000 Americans dying from the virus, though.
olddad65
(599 posts)Rigged the last one. Putin is not going to lose his stooge in the oval office.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,264 posts)MuseRider
(34,205 posts)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)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.
central scrutinizer
(11,724 posts)That is as rational as anything else he has done
milestogo
(16,829 posts)maxsolomon
(33,582 posts)Fame.
Spite.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)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.
truthisfreedom
(23,196 posts)DENVERPOPS
(9,094 posts)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)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 ...
irisblue
(33,149 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)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)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.
Grokenstein
(5,737 posts)Botany
(70,851 posts)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. Its not clear how serious the presidents 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
dawg day
(7,947 posts)He is just such an ahole.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)riversedge
(70,877 posts)Hassler
(3,430 posts)Beacool
(30,257 posts)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)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.
ancianita
(36,443 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,738 posts)Nitram
(23,319 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)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)I don't think anybody made him say that shit. Except maybe his inner demons.
apnu
(8,765 posts)What else is new?
Gothmog
(147,010 posts)Xolodno
(6,447 posts)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)At least he thinks he does. T-Rump could fire him and stiff him on his money.