General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh, Sweet Jesus! Brad Parscale throws Jared Kushner and Eric Trump under the bus.
Link to tweet
I love the sound of treason rats throwing each other under the bus.
Wounded Bear
(58,622 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)Whoever he is, he seems to have done his amazing friends an amazing disservice....
These people are so stupid.
hatrack
(59,583 posts).
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)Didn't it turn out he and Jared were partners? And isn't Eric's wife working there somehow?
WhiteTara
(29,699 posts)snip
Brad Parscale: Trump team used Facebook to help win the White House
Brad Parscale: Trump team used Facebook to help win the White House
4:41 PM ET Mon, 9 Oct 2017 | 00:49
The Trump campaign's digital director credits Facebook in helping to fuel the president's surprising win last November.
In an interview with CBS News' "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday, Brad Parscale said Facebook "was the method" for President Donald Trump's stunning rise to the White House. Parscale, who spearheaded the small Trump campaign team's digital and fundraising efforts, contended that the team took advantage of Facebook in a way Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign did not.
"Facebook now lets you get to places and places possibly that you would never go with TV ads," Parscale, web director at San Antonio-based marketing and design firm Giles Parscale, told CBS. "Now, I can find, you know, 15 people in the Florida Panhandle that I would never buy a TV commercial for. And, we took opportunities that I think the other side didn't."
He pointed to the Trump campaign having Facebook employees "embedded inside our offices" to explain how to use the platform to target voters. Parscale wanted Trump-supporting Facebook employees to offer guidance, and the company already had divisions "set up" by political affiliation, he said.
Parscale said he "heard" Clinton's campaign got the same offer but did not accept it.
In a statement, Facebook said it offered the campaigns "identical support" and had teams assigned to both Trump and Clinton. "Everyone had access to the same tools," the company said, adding that it did not let campaigns "hand pick" employees or assign its workers full time to Trump or Clinton.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)facility after threatening self harm.
TOPLINE The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission Tuesday accusing the Trump campaign of laundering $170 million through numerous companies, some with connections to former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.
Sounds like the campaign was super dirty and siphoning money like crazy and now that they are being investigated, they are gonna try to lay it on him. Forbes has good reporting on it.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Brad Parscale was The Don's digital media director.
shanny
(6,709 posts)He saddled them with all the responsibility for a (probably) criminal campaign.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)connected to trump's anus.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Nothing illegal, treasonous, etc. happened without approval. I think Parscale is scared shitless, and he should be.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,163 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,376 posts)Pick your QT movie, they just about all end that way, lol.
Cosmocat
(14,561 posts)love the reference!
BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)not only knew about the Trump Tower "adoptions" meeting while it was going on but also that he stopped by. This would be fantastic and it is a possibility.
Louis1895
(768 posts)was listening on from another room.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)Makes it sound like a comment while passing the buck.
Mueller's team will be listening and making notes and comparing testimony.
I think Parsquale has testified to Congressional committee(s) but I don't know about to Mueller's agents / grand juries.
Siwsan
(26,256 posts)Grifting? Then yes. Projecting blame? Absolutely. Other than that, I'm at a loss.
triron
(21,993 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)This is Pascale's version of bless their hearts.
FSogol
(45,466 posts)This is called throwing the blame around and Eric is the one who couldn't make it to the last empty chair.
FSogol
(45,466 posts)Casey was blamed for everything Iran-contra because he died during the investigation.
Me.
(35,454 posts)I'm happy
FSogol
(45,466 posts)hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,641 posts)He's saying the mess is all of Eric and jarred's making, not bannon's.
But who really knows?
renate
(13,776 posts)Right?
melman
(7,681 posts)TeamPooka
(24,217 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)In context, Brad is defending them and that tweet is a high praise.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)He's praising them to the skies...and saying that they bore sole responsibility for whatever the campaign did. That would mean legal and illegal, wouldn't it?
With friends like him who needs enemies?
keithbvadu2
(36,724 posts)Earlier articles noted that the Trumps did not trust Pence because he was not blood (family).
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Parscale has unintentionally thrown them under the bus. More fodder for Mueller.
(and of course, former campaign managers Manafort and Bannon were nothing more than figureheads. Riiiiight).
Botany
(70,483 posts)Pascale knows a lot of what he did was wrong and might be criminal so he
is now saying, it was Jared and Eric Trump's who gave the orders.
The Nuremberg Defense* refers to a legal strategy employed by many of the defendants at the Nuremberg war crimes trials seeking to convict Nazi perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War. Many of those defendants claimed that they were not guilty of the charges against them as they were "only following orders."
* https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nuremberg_defense
samnsara
(17,615 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,562 posts)"Others just took credit for this familys amazing ability."
He really thinks this? And does he also think that this is helping them? That's what I get from it - "don't give credit to others for the accomplishments of Don and Jared." Am I wrong?
FSogol
(45,466 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)if it weren't part of a horrifying administration. He really doesn't seem to know that he's doing "this family" and their "amazing ability" a disservice. With friends like these...
Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,317 posts)Was lyin.
enki23
(7,787 posts).