Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 25

[timhau]

Looks like the Biden campaign already has a simple comparison ad out.

Me like.

 

[alfaniner]

Trump Tweets

This is totally illegal. Hope that the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota has this, and other of her many misdeeds, under serious review??? If not, why not??? We will win Minnesota because of her, and law enforcement. Saved Minneapolis & Iron O Range!

"O Range" -- man... bad!

(It's called the Iron Range.)

 

[shemp]

And in another case of "what the heck just happened?"

Brad Pascale (Trump's former campaign manager, who has been accused of misusing campaign funds) has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt.

Now before people start making crass comments, and others say it's not appropriate... Someone on the trump campaign has already tried to blame it on the democrats and RINOs.

Stay classy, republicans.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/politics/brad-parscale-hospitalized/index.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...-hospitalized-self-harm-threats-police-2020-9

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From the first link:

(CNN)President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale was hospitalized Sunday following reports of a suicide attempt at his Florida home, CNN has learned.

According to Fort Lauderdale Police Department Sgt. DeAnna Greenlaw, Fort Lauderdale police officers responded to Parscale's residence "in reference to an armed male attempting suicide." Officers later identified him to CNN as Bradley Parscale and said his wife had called the police.

"When officers arrived on scene, they made contact with the armed subject's wife, who advised her husband was armed and had access to multiple firearms inside the residence and was threatening to harm himself," Greenlaw told CNN in a statement. The officers determined the only person inside the home was the adult male.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel was the first to report the story.

Greenlaw said officers contacted Parscale, "developed a rapport, and safely negotiated for him to exit the home. The male was detained without injury and transported to Broward Health Medical Center for a Baker Act."

Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Karen Dietrich told CNN over the phone there was a concern that Parscale may harm himself, and his wife reported there were weapons in the home. The SWAT team responded and after a short time Parscale surrendered to police, Dietrich said.

"He came out and we got him some help," Dietrich said.

Good thing for him he's white, if he was black they'd have gone in and filled him full of holes like a Swiss cheese.

 

[slyjoe]

From the first link:



Good thing for him he's white, if he was black they'd have gone in and filled him full of holes like a Swiss cheese.

I wonder if they will confiscate all those guns he has.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

And in another case of "what the heck just happened?"

Brad Pascale (Trump's former campaign manager, who has been accused of misusing campaign funds) has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt.

Now before people start making crass comments, and others say it's not appropriate... Someone on the trump campaign has already tried to blame it on the democrats and RINOs.

Stay classy, republicans.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/politics/brad-parscale-hospitalized/index.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...-hospitalized-self-harm-threats-police-2020-9

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I'm glad he made it. Honestly.

And yes, of course the trumpkins will spin this tragedy like they do everything else. They'll be gleefully screaming "Liberal BLM Muslim Mueller Democrat Obama witch hunt causes suicide attempt" from the rooftops for as long as it gets them attention.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

It's not a good sign when your campaign manager is having a nervous breakdown and tries to kill himself.

 

[Horatius]

It's not a good sign when your campaign manager is having a nervous breakdown and tries to kill himself.

Fake news! He's their "former" campaign manager, you know, they guy he barely knew who just got coffee or something.

And of course he's suicidal; The Lord Trump has exiled him from His Presence for being a coffee fetching loser, seriously, who even hired - DISGRUNTLED!

 

[Pixel42]

Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016

Channel 4 News has exclusively obtained a vast cache of data used by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign on almost 200 million American voters.

It reveals that 3.5 million Black Americans were categorised by Donald Trump’s campaign as ‘Deterrence’ – voters they wanted to stay home on election day.

Tonight, civil rights campaigners said the evidence amounted to a new form of voter “suppression” and called on Facebook to disclose ads and targeting information that has never been made public.

The ‘Deterrence’ project can be revealed after Channel 4 News obtained the database used by Trump’s digital campaign team – credited with helping deliver his shock victory to become president four years ago.

 

[Bob001]

It's not a good sign when your campaign manager is having a nervous breakdown and tries to kill himself.

I hope he recovers, and as part of his therapy he writes a book. I suspect he could be more devastating than anything published so far. And it wouldn't surprise me if this tech guy made tapes.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016

Perhaps relevant: Brad Parscale - the digital director of Trump's campaign in 2016 - last night barricaded himself in his home with a cache of weapons threatening to harm himself, before being talked out by the police and hospitalised for psychiatric evaluation

 

[newyorkguy]

Related to Parscale, trump and the campaign. In an article on the Technology Review website, it was demonstrated that the trump campaign app -- in large measure designed by Brad Parscale -- was much more intrusive than Biden's. The official Trump 2020 app has been downloaded approximately 780,000 times since its mid-April launch. Sharing is encouraged and the campaign hopes to reach millions of potential trump supporters and collect data on all of them. Few of the people downloading the app seem aware of how much data they may be sharing.

Ahead of President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his 2020 re-election campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted about the event. “Just passed 800,000 tickets,” he wrote. “Biggest data haul and rally signup of all time by 10x. Saturday is going to be amazing!”...But even on the surface, his claim was confusing: the venue holds only 19,000 people. So what was the campaign doing signing up so many people for tickets? The clue lies in Parscale’s use of the phrase “data haul.” Data collection and targeted online messaging were integral to the 2016 US presidential election, and they will be again in 2020. Technology Review link

Click to read.

 

[Segnosaur]

Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016

Channel 4 News has exclusively obtained a vast cache of data used by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign on almost 200 million American voters.

Any idea how the data was leaked? Disgruntled campaign worker? Hack of the republicans? Something related to Brad Parscale? (I didn't seem to notice anything in the article suggesting the source.)

 

[Bob001]

Peter Strzok notes that even after the President leaves office, his knowledge of the nation's deepest secrets doesn't evaporate. Trump owes as much as a half-billion dollars, some to foreign interests. What might he give up to a foreign power who offered relief?

 

[Andy_Ross]

Last time Trump Junior self-published a book the RNC uses donor money to buy the book in bulk and Junior pocketed the profits.
Laundering Donor money

Quote Tweet
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
THANK YOU for the amazing support! My latest best selling book, Liberal Privilege is going into a third print run! Over 125,000 copies already sold! Get your copy now at http://donjr.com

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Related to Parscale, trump and the campaign. In an article on the Technology Review website, it was demonstrated that the trump campaign app -- in large measure designed by Brad Parscale -- was much more intrusive than Biden's. The official Trump 2020 app has been downloaded approximately 780,000 times since its mid-April launch. Sharing is encouraged and the campaign hopes to reach millions of potential trump supporters and collect data on all fo them. Few of the people downloading the app seem aware of how much data they may be sharing.

Click to read.

That must be this: The NewYorker: How the Trump Campaign’s Mobile App Is Collecting Huge Amounts of Voter Data

 

[Minoosh]

That Parscale story. I wonder how the conversation went about even running that story. Where I worked policy was not to write about suicides, let alone attempted suicides, and actually Parscale did not even try to kill himself. If there was some big SWAT operation with officers rappelling down roofs you could say, well it caused a commotion on the street and people have a right to know what was up. Other excuses for running it would be, grave public concern, someone else is going to beat us, it's already out there so what difference does it make etc.

Did someone in Parscale's camp pre-empt all that by making a press statement? Because someone having a mental health crisis that is peacefully resolved in the relative privacy of their own home wasn't an automatic news story when I left the business in 2009.

We did write obliquely about suicides without calling it such. People commit suicide by car fairly regularly. Some drug ODs are suicides, etc.

ETA: There would occasionally be times when it would be unavoidable to ID a suicide. If someone did it in public. Does Parscale now have data on a bunch of TikTok teenagers?

 

[Bob001]

That Parscale story. I wonder how the conversation went about even running that story. Where I worked policy was not to write about suicides, let alone attempted suicides, and actually Parscale did not even try to kill himself. If there was some big SWAT operation with officers rappelling down roofs you could say, well it caused a commotion on the street and people have a right to know what was up. Other excuses for running it would be, grave public concern, someone else is going to beat us, it's already out there so what difference does it make etc.

Did someone in Parscale's camp pre-empt all that by making a press statement? Because someone having a mental health crisis that is peacefully resolved in the relative privacy of their own home wasn't an automatic news story when I left the business in 2009.
....

The guy is a prominent public figure who may have assaulted his wife. He gave up claims to privacy a long time ago.

 

[alfaniner]

That Parscale story. I wonder how the conversation went about even running that story. Where I worked policy was not to write about suicides, let alone attempted suicides, and actually Parscale did not even try to kill himself. If there was some big SWAT operation with officers rappelling down roofs you could say, well it caused a commotion on the street and people have a right to know what was up. Other excuses for running it would be, grave public concern, someone else is going to beat us, it's already out there so what difference does it make etc.

Did someone in Parscale's camp pre-empt all that by making a press statement? Because someone having a mental health crisis that is peacefully resolved in the relative privacy of their own home wasn't an automatic news story when I left the business in 2009.

We did write obliquely about suicides without calling it such. People commit suicide by car fairly regularly. Some drug ODs are suicides, etc.

ETA: There would occasionally be times when it would be unavoidable to ID a suicide. If someone did it in public. Does Parscale now have data on a bunch of TikTok teenagers?

Oh, (and I'm sure you're quite aware of this) there are many things the mainstream media will run with now that they wouldn't touch in 2009.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Remember how Kellyanne Conway so selflessly left her White House job in order to take care of her family?
Yeah, she’s back. Guess the family’s better.

 

[Aridas]

Remember how Kellyanne Conway so selflessly left her White House job in order to take care of her family?
Yeah, she’s back. Guess the family’s better.

I noticed George still being involved in the Lincoln Project, too.