Trump erupts at campaign manager (Brad Parscale) as reelection stress overflows
Updated 4:55 PM ET, Wed April 29, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/donald-trump-brad-parscale-campaign-coronavirus/index.html
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.
"He's p*ssed because he knows he messed up in those briefings," one Republican close to the White House said of Trump lashing out.
Last Wednesday, two days before Trump lashed out at Parscale, his campaign manager and several other top political advisers briefed him on internal campaign and Republican National Committee data showing the President was heading for defeat in key battleground states. Parscale, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and other advisers urged him to scale back his daily, combative news conferences and pointed to data showing that the briefings were hurting him with critical swing voters in those states.
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I laughed too.
he tried to sue Bill Maher over a joke!! This guy takes people to court like it's a hobby!
These days, that's some good news.
I wish somebody would sneak out some audio recordings of General Cockwomble's defeated hissy fits. That would be a much better than anything else he says.
Thanks. Ahhhh!
Parscale has gotten rich off Trump's nonsense, but does he think he'll go untouched by the ETTD?
Every Nazi close to Hitler got to live it up...until they didn't. Good luck witcha boy, Brad.
Please proceed Don the criminally negligent Con and other ReTHUG goons.
they're not watching to see him! They're watching, hoping to hear some actual news that might save their lives!! But what they get are more conspiracy theories from a raving moron!!
That will insure that he will never EVER get his voters back.
but it may not be necessary. He can't do the rallies anymore so the daily press briefings have become a different kind of rally. And even though his people are trying to get him to stop, he still seems incapable of doing it!! Like any liar, he thinks he can explain his way out of this mess. But the more he tries, the worse he makes it for himself!
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
& he only has himself to blame by insisting on saying stupid shit every day in the press conferences! But he would never admit that. I know that's behind the big push to reopen the country because he knows he has little chance of winning another election if people are wearing masks & have to stay 6 feet apart from each other. But I think reopening is likely to make things worse for him because in about 3 weeks, I think we'll see infections rise when people are no longer focused on social distancing. I know all of the governors are saying that people should use social distancing even with some parts of the country reopened but it's very easy to forget to do that. For example, when the planes recently flew over NY, NJ & CT people on the ground gathered to watch them & they were not standing 6 ft apart! Even if that doesn't happen, Dr Fauci is saying that a new outbreak could happen in the summer &/or in the fall! Can you imagine trying to get re-elected while a current outbreak happens in the fall, at the same time as the election?
