Trump family fears Parscale will cooperate with fed investigators looking at Trump campaign spending

[fleur-de-lisa]

Gabriel Sherman @gabrielsherman (Vanity Fair)

Source says Trump family fears Parscale will cooperate with federal investigators looking at Trump campaign spending.

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THE FAMILY IS WORRIED BRAD WILL START TALKING”: TRUMPWORLD PANICS OVER DEBATE FIASCO AS CAMPAIGN TURMOIL MOUNTS

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Inside Trumpworld there’s a view that the past week is an inflection point in the campaign. It started on Sunday night with the bombshell New York Times report that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. “For Trump the Times story was worse than losing reelection,” said the second Republican. “If you had told Donald back in 2015 that his tax returns would be exposed and he’d have all these investigations, I guarantee you he wouldn’t have run.”

As the Times story lit up cable news and Twitter, news broke that Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale had been taken into custody outside his Ft. Lauderdale home and hospitalized after threatening to commit suicide and allegedly beating his wife days prior. Police body camera footage showing an officer brutally tackling a shirtless, 6’8” Parscale to the pavement instantly became a visual metaphor for the chaos engulfing the Trump campaign. One campaign adviser I spoke with was shocked by the amount of force the police used to subdue and cuff Parscale. “If Brad had been Black, there would be riots all over the country,” the source said. (In fact, police have killed unarmed Black men in far less hostile situations.)

Parscale’s public meltdown happened while he is reportedly under investigation for stealing from the Trump campaign and the RNC. According to the source close to the campaign, the Trump family is worried that Parscale could turn on them and cooperate with law enforcement about possible campaign finance violations. “The family is worried Brad will start talking,” the source said.

In response the Trump campaign’s communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said: “It’s utterly false. There is no investigation, no audit, and there never was.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/trumpworld-panics-over-debate-fiasco-as-campaign-turmoil-mounts

[LakeArenal]

1. As you should you grifters, you.

[malaise]

2. He'll be suicided before he can talk

Take that to the bank

[central scrutinizer]

15. Yes, the groundwork is already laid

By his hospitalization

[FakeNoose]

24. I don't think so, his wife is in on it too

Don't forget that the luxury yacht (and whatever else) is registered in her name, not his. Their grifting goes back to the campaign 4 years ago where it was so easy that they got really careless. Of course the Chump kiddies are in on it, they've probably taken more dough than Parscale has, but they're perfectly fine with letting him take the fall for everything.

We'll see.

[bamagal62]

33. Yep. I wonder when Bill Barr will make a visit?

[Evolve Dammit]

46. Yeah. They will want him arrested so they can "Epstein" him. He knows way to much.

[uponit7771]

51. +1, in a jail were both cameras and both guards all stop looking at him at the same time

[dchill]

3. "If Brad had been Black..."

He'd be dead.

[magicarpet]

20. Swiss cheese in a coffin by the blue line of bang bang justice.

[Blue_true]

28. Yes, the mere fact that he walked toward police with a beer in his hand

would have gotten him forty rounds.

[dchill]

47. White privilege.

[dchill]

4. Also, too: heh. Heh heh heh. Heh.

[bluestarone]

5. STOP Barr from even talking with him

Keep them apart!

[BadGimp]

48. BINGO!!!

[C_U_L8R]

6. Gee, what's to worry about?

I think every noble prosecutor's curiosity just got piqued.

[BannonsLiver]

7. There's still time to repent, Brad.

[MagickMuffin]

8. But hey: LAW & ORDER

Ya really can't have it both ways.

Which is GRIFTERS?

[ace3csusm]

9. That would explain why he wasnt fired and demoted instead

Jared and Ivanka knew what was going on behind the scenes, after all he is Jared guy...The new guys Bill Stepien probably didnt know what was happening and was just installed to take the fall. He might have found something that did hold and started investigation...Oooppps

[fleur-de-lisa]

10. Hmmm . . . interesting.

I think you might be onto something there.

[malaise]

14. Bill of Christie and Bridgegate fame - please!

[Mr.Bill]

42. Another reason he wasn't fired

is he has been paying Eric's wife and Don Jr's girlfriend each 15K a month from a company (I believe a consulting firm) he controls. I'm sure this is stolen/laundered campaign money.

[Aerator]

44. He's the Data guy

He’s the data guy and if I’m not mistaken he has the rights to all the campaigns data .Also l believe Laura and Kimberly are being paid through his company so I don’t think he’ll be dismissed all together.

[drray23]

11. "the family is worried". That sounds like Mafia talk.

This is something Tony Soprano could have said.

[Squidly]

12. He's going to get Epstein'd

[durablend]

13. Found dead

With a backwards B scrawled on his face

[Blue_true]

29. A backwards "J". With the words (also written backwards) "Joe did it". nt

[RockRaven]

16. Is Parscale gonna get the Epstein treatment?....

[dustyscamp]

17. He won't Stitch on Trump

[magicarpet]

18. I wish Parscale would spill the beans on trDump 2016,..

... election shenanigans and the dirty dirt involving Russian interference and Cambridge Analytica.

[Yavin4]

19. Manifort, Gates, Flynn, and now Parscale

If you're Trump's campaign advisor, you have a very good chance of going to jail.

[fleur-de-lisa]

22. And Bannon.

[Yavin4]

39. Damn. I forgot about him.

I gotta start a spreadsheet to track these criminals.

[ace3csusm]

23. Bill Stepien should watch out he is next

they need a fall guy for all the money that is gone...Remember Melania friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff was one of the key planners of Donald Trump's inauguration and they tired to blame her for all the loss money from that fund...

[duforsure]

21. How long before trumps either sending him signals

If he keeps his mouth shut he'll get him off of all charges, or send in Barr to threaten or bribe him, or do like they did to Epstein. I'd be scared if I were him , and talk while he can cause latter it'll all come out anyway.

[jayfish]

25. Why is Such an Upstanding Group of People...

so petrified all the time?

[Blue_true]

30. Spending MAGAT campaign donations like drunken sailors. nt

[Brother Buzz]

35. I will submit they were diverting campaign money rather than spending it

I believe they were ponying up phony internet ad purchase bills for ads that were never placed and pocketing the dough. The Campaign fund was a cash cow, and they felt entitled to take it. Free money, Baby!

[Blue_true]

36. Possibly, given the morals of Trumps and the people that surround them. nt

[lastlib]

52. yeah, you'd think they could figure out....

...that if they kept things *honest* they wouldn't to worry about things.

But I guess the word "honest" isn't in the family vocabulary. And, too, this is the family that spawned that scintillating intellect Eric .........

[Golden Raisin]

26. Don't rule out Novichok'd or Epstein'd.

[Blue_true]

31. He is 6'8", so Barr is going to have to make sure the bed is tall on his "visit" to

the federal prison.

[Baitball Blogger]

27. You think?

[gratuitous]

32. If you haven't done anything wrong, you shouldn't have to worry

But the way Trump keeps cashiering inspectors general and anyone else in government tasked with investigating irregularities and wrongdoing, the casual observer might conclude that Trump and his coterie are trying to cover over massive crimes.

We're going to find out.

[Baked Potato]

34. Oooops. EOM

[triron]

37. Barr will ensure it goes nowhere.

[Ferrets are Cool]

38. "It's utterly false." Which means it is ABSOLUTELY true.

[Paladin]

40. Parscale needs to make a deal, and damned soon. (nt)

[Miles Archer]

41. Of COURSE he will.

If I could pick ONE Trump staffer MOST likely to violate the loyalty oath in order to save his ass, it would be the Bradster.

To quote the classic old black & white noir detective films, he'll "sing like a canary."

[mercuryblues]

43. My consiracy theory is

He's already talking. The Baker act is a sham in order to protect him.

[malaise]

50. That makes the most sense because the wife was hiding in a car outside

claiming domestic abuse. The attempted suicide story doesn't make sense.

[flibbitygiblets]

45. And I quote: "I barely knew the guy, disgruntled employee, covfefe boy..."

I do think it's interesting that Brad got demoted (and not fired) after he got pwned by a bunch of teenagers on TikTok pretending to be going to the Tulsa superspreader event. Trumpy doesn't like to look bad, and 5000 actual attendees at his big COVID Comeback Tour 2020 looked baaaaaaad.

Something is up with that.

[BadGimp]

49. What are the odds of him being "Epsteined"?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=epsteined

[neohippie]

53. I won't hold my breath for FEC investigations

I seriously doubt we will see any investigations from the FEC into Trump campaign election law violations until after this election and that will still be determined on the outcome

[Grasswire2]

54. Maybe Parscale acted out in order to be held in safety, committed somewhere?

This has crossed my mind.

Parscale knows enough dirt on Trump that he might be afraid for his life. He should be. (Remember the helicopter crash with Trump execs aboard)

Being committed might be the easiest way to be safe for now.

[Dan]

55. If he had been Black, he would have been shot.