Trump campaign installs Bill Stepien (of Bridgegate fame) as Parscale's No. 2

[sandensea]

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is elevating a longtime top political adviser to the president to the role of deputy campaign manager.

Bill Stepien, who formerly served as White House political director and had been advising the reelection effort, will serve under Brad Parscale, who has been campaign manager since 2018.

But the promotion was seen by some in the White House as a check on Parscale.

Trump has long relied on Stepien, a former top adviser to then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, for political counsel.

Though Stepien was never convicted in relation to Bridgegate, a number of e-mails that surfaced in 2014 revealed the close Christie aide allegedly knew about the 2013 lane closure incident - widely seen as an act of political retribution against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey.

At: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/26/trump-campaign-bill-stepien-281955

Former Christie aide Bill Stepien (left), with President Donald Trump and Senate candidate Matt Rosendale in Montana in 2018.

Stepien, implicated in the 2013 Bridgegate scandal that effectively ended Christie's presidential ambitions, has now been promoted to deputy campaign manager.

[Turbineguy]

1. The problem, it seems to me,

of being one of these guys is the number of volunteers who want to be on your firing squad.

[sandensea]

2. For Stepien, being Cheeto's dick washer is his get-out-of-jail-free card.

Anger Orange Amin, and it's goodbye impunity for him.

[empedocles]

3. We should be giving these thugs labels. Open here with, bill, 'the shit', stepien.

[erronis]

4. Great idea. Wish I was more creative than: Little Pit Barr. Tombstone Jared, Wannabe Jr.

Poupee (Ivanka), Who Me (Eric), Blunderbuss Pompeo, Dunderass (herr shitler)

Too bad Micky Cohen isn't still around as the Knee-Capper or Manafort as the UnFixer.

[empedocles]

6. You have some talent there

[czarjak]

5. Imagine the vetting!