How Trump's Voter Fraud War Room Became a Fart-Infused 'Room From Hell'

[Fozzledick]

The president’s campaign built a tip line that left its own staff feeling traumatized, then hung out to dry by Team Trump.

On Friday, the remnants of Donald Trump’s failed re-election campaign informed staff that they were putting an end to “voter fraud” hotline duty. It meant the death of a bare, depressing communal office space tucked away on a floor of the Team Trump headquarters in Arlington, Virginia; a workspace that one senior Trump campaign official described to The Daily Beast simply as “the room from hell.”
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According to three people familiar with the situation, the hotline was inundated for nearly a week by crank callers impersonating public figures such as Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, anti-Trump callers launching into vulgarity-laden tirades, pranksters making sounds of flatulence, and others issuing threats of physical violence at the lower- and mid-level Trump 2020 staffers.

For every three or four hours of threats and pranking endured, staff estimated that they’d get roughly one caller with an earnest, maybe-promising tip. This was done against the backdrop of a re-election campaign that virtually all of them knew was over and defeated. The search for “FRAUD,” they knew, would not actually stop Biden’s presidency from commencing.

After hours stuck on tip-line duty, staff would often leave looking visibly upset, worn out, and feeling undervalued. One staffer told The Daily Beast they had to go to the bathroom at least twice over the last few days just to cry because of the sheer volume of abusive phone calls.

“It’s misery. It’s one of the worst ways to end a campaign that you could think of,” this person said. Some staff had started getting aggressive with the prank callers, giving fake names and arguing or yelling back into the landline.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-trumps-voter-fraud-war-room-became-a-fart-infused-room-from-hell


I thought the title was a bit misleading; it initially gave me the impression that Trump must have been there in person.

[chowder66]

1. Well maybe they now understand what it's like for health officials around the nation

that are getting death threats because they went on TV to inform the public about Coronavirus and the precautions needed to slow the spread.