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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:22 PM Jan 2018

Oh, Sweet Jesus! Brad Parscale throws Jared Kushner and Eric Trump under the bus.

Truth: Jared Kushner and @EricTrump were joint deputy campaign managers to @realDonaldTrump. Nobody else. Not one person made a decision without their approval. Others just took credit for this family’s amazing ability. I’m done with all these lies. They will be embarrassed!




I love the sound of treason rats throwing each other under the bus.
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Oh, Sweet Jesus! Brad Parscale throws Jared Kushner and Eric Trump under the bus. (Original Post) MelissaB Jan 2018 OP
With this Trump Cabal, DC is gonna run out of buses... Wounded Bear Jan 2018 #1
LOL! MelissaB Jan 2018 #19
Who is Brad Parscale? shanny Jan 2018 #2
Shitstain's IT and data guy hatrack Jan 2018 #8
He was getting the bulk of campaign money, but sarah FAILIN Jan 2018 #25
Here's an article about him WhiteTara Jan 2018 #46
Former Trump campaign manager now being investigated for fraud. Suddenly enters mental health OregonBlue Sep 2020 #51
Look at other tweet's he is not throwing them under the bus, he is mesmerized by trump clan MyNameIsKhan Jan 2018 #3
Yeah, he is praising them AND saying nothing happened unless they approved it. MelissaB Jan 2018 #11
Sure he is...he just doesn't know it. shanny Jan 2018 #12
Exactly! MelissaB Jan 2018 #16
Bingo. dchill Jan 2018 #26
How is he throwing these asshclowns under the bus? The Twitter feed reads like it's surgically Guy Whitey Corngood Jan 2018 #4
He is saying no decisions were made unless these guys approved it. MelissaB Jan 2018 #13
So you're saying he's doing it inadvertently? nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jan 2018 #15
This is all like the ending to Reservoir Dogs. Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2018 #5
Yes, pretty much circular firing squad. Laffy Kat Jan 2018 #18
Nice Cosmocat Jan 2018 #35
I am waiting for someone to say that the moron BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #6
I would bet The Don Louis1895 Jan 2018 #32
That doesnt read like a negative comment at all. nt Codeine Jan 2018 #7
Yeah. He doesnt realize the damage he just did to them. Or he's insidiously clever that way. Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2018 #28
I'm confused as to what 'amazing ability' he credits the trumps with having. Siwsan Jan 2018 #9
Who is Brad Parscale? triron Jan 2018 #10
Eric? Joint Deputy Anthing? Me. Jan 2018 #14
LOL, I wouldn't trust Eric to divide up the juice boxes evenly. FSogol Jan 2018 #20
Right? Me. Jan 2018 #21
I think the poor sap will be this admin's William Casey. FSogol Jan 2018 #22
As LOng AS Any Of The Trumps Get Nailed Me. Jan 2018 #36
Trump didn't really know Eric. He was just getting coffee in the kitchen. FSogol Jan 2018 #38
... Me. Jan 2018 #40
Casey ...iirc, they threw him under the boat. hedda_foil Jan 2018 #43
I'm guessing he's refuting the use of Bannon as scapehoat. lindysalsagal Jan 2018 #17
He must have meant Don Jr renate Jan 2018 #23
That's meant to be a slam against Bannon melman Jan 2018 #24
Translation: Bannon gets no credit and Eric and Jared were the ones who conspired with Russia TeamPooka Jan 2018 #27
Out of context, this reads a lot different than Brad's Twitter feed. Show the rest! L. Coyote Jan 2018 #29
Can it not be high praise and a noose around the neck at the same time? MelissaB Jan 2018 #30
Whoosh. shanny Jan 2018 #44
Earlier articles noted that the Trumps did not trust Pence because he was not blood (family). keithbvadu2 Sep 2020 #48
In trying to paint the Trump family as a champion of the people Mr. Ected Jan 2018 #31
IOW it is CYA time Botany Jan 2018 #33
this family doesnt get embarrassed..they need to be decimated.. samnsara Jan 2018 #34
To me, this part puts Parscale's judgement in serious doubt. BobTheSubgenius Jan 2018 #37
Parscale seems like a real moooo-roooon FSogol Jan 2018 #39
This would be funny NastyRiffraff Jan 2018 #41
Parscale might be the link between Putin and Jones/Breitbart coordinating their activities. nt. Mc Mike Jan 2018 #42
So sloppy seconds Steve... GeorgeGist Jan 2018 #45
I don't think an ass kissing tweet from 2018 is going to doom anybody. enki23 Sep 2020 #47
yes, I don't think people here have noticed the 2018 date stamp on the tweets. nt Grasswire2 Sep 2020 #49
"...this family's amazing ability..." Subjective. Perspective. dchill Sep 2020 #50
 

shanny

(6,709 posts)
2. Who is Brad Parscale?
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:26 PM
Jan 2018

Whoever he is, he seems to have done his amazing friends an amazing disservice....

These people are so stupid.

sarah FAILIN

(2,857 posts)
25. He was getting the bulk of campaign money, but
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 05:05 PM
Jan 2018

Didn't it turn out he and Jared were partners? And isn't Eric's wife working there somehow?

WhiteTara

(29,699 posts)
46. Here's an article about him
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 11:18 PM
Jan 2018
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/09/brad-parscale-says-trump-campaign-used-facebook-to-beat-clinton.html
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)
51. Former Trump campaign manager now being investigated for fraud. Suddenly enters mental health
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 12:01 PM
Sep 2020

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.

MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
11. Yeah, he is praising them AND saying nothing happened unless they approved it.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:41 PM
Jan 2018

Brad Parscale was The Don's digital media director.

 

shanny

(6,709 posts)
12. Sure he is...he just doesn't know it.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:42 PM
Jan 2018

He saddled them with all the responsibility for a (probably) criminal campaign.

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,500 posts)
4. How is he throwing these asshclowns under the bus? The Twitter feed reads like it's surgically
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:30 PM
Jan 2018

connected to trump's anus.

MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
13. He is saying no decisions were made unless these guys approved it.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:42 PM
Jan 2018

Nothing illegal, treasonous, etc. happened without approval. I think Parscale is scared shitless, and he should be.

BigmanPigman

(51,582 posts)
6. I am waiting for someone to say that the moron
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:31 PM
Jan 2018

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.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,988 posts)
28. Yeah. He doesnt realize the damage he just did to them. Or he's insidiously clever that way.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 05:10 PM
Jan 2018

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)
9. I'm confused as to what 'amazing ability' he credits the trumps with having.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:36 PM
Jan 2018

Grifting? Then yes. Projecting blame? Absolutely. Other than that, I'm at a loss.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
21. Right?
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:59 PM
Jan 2018

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)
22. I think the poor sap will be this admin's William Casey.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 05:01 PM
Jan 2018

Casey was blamed for everything Iran-contra because he died during the investigation.

lindysalsagal

(20,641 posts)
17. I'm guessing he's refuting the use of Bannon as scapehoat.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:55 PM
Jan 2018

He's saying the mess is all of Eric and jarred's making, not bannon's.

But who really knows?

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
29. Out of context, this reads a lot different than Brad's Twitter feed. Show the rest!
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 05:16 PM
Jan 2018

In context, Brad is defending them and that tweet is a high praise.










 

shanny

(6,709 posts)
44. Whoosh.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 07:14 PM
Jan 2018

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)
48. Earlier articles noted that the Trumps did not trust Pence because he was not blood (family).
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 01:11 AM
Sep 2020

Earlier articles noted that the Trumps did not trust Pence because he was not blood (family).

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
31. In trying to paint the Trump family as a champion of the people
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 05:53 PM
Jan 2018

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)
33. IOW it is CYA time
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 06:12 PM
Jan 2018

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

BobTheSubgenius

(11,562 posts)
37. To me, this part puts Parscale's judgement in serious doubt.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 06:47 PM
Jan 2018

"Others just took credit for this family’s 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?

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
41. This would be funny
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 06:54 PM
Jan 2018

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...

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