There’s something about the people of Trump world, as sociopathic as they are, they all state that their resignations are tendered so that they can go home to their families and make nice nice. Brad Parscale is the latest Trumpkin to jump ship and he almost duplicated Kellyanne Conway’s resignation notice verbatim, with the exception that he said that he needed to deal with “overwhelming stress.” We would be overwhelmingly stressed, too, if accused of embezzling $40 million from the Trump campaign and $10 Million from the RNC. New Civil Rights Movement:
A Trump insider explained to DailyMail.com that Parscale went into a tailspin after he was demoted in July and replaced by his former number two, Bill Stepien, as he’s worried about the ‘gravy train’ ending and keeping up with his lavish lifestyle.
Trump demoted Parscale as campaign manager earlier this year after his Florida lifestyle attracted media attention. Daily Mail sources said Trump ordered a review of RNC finances just days after Parscale’s demotion.
That’s quite a hill of beans to have to pay back. That level of grandiose consumption and devil may care attitude reminds me of Scarface. And you remember how he ended up. And the Florida cops confiscated Parscale’s ten little friends, so what’s a fella to do?
Trump sure knows how to pick the campaign managers. For a while it’s ostrich vests and Lamborghinis and then it’s orange jumpsuits.
Fun while it lasted, huh brad? Was it worth it, you fool.
I can’t see how he can not go the way of Manafort on these facts. I think that’s where he’s going.
Seems like it to me.
Hell, Ursula, I KNOW that’s where he’s going. And President Biden’s DOJ, not to mention state governments, isgoing to be sending him plenty of company.
I hope this cabal of creeps ends up going to jail and the rest of them end up disgraced. I hope that the likes of McEnany and Hucky Boo Boo Sanders can’t get a job — except on OANN or Breitbart.
MAGA-ninny and Suckaboo must have zero street cred right about now!
“Hope it was worth it” is what I say whenever a moron does something like this….like the people who rob a dollar store or embezzle funds from their employer, church or organization knowing full well they will eventually be caught, not to mention the pervs who get arrested after talking to police on line thinking it was a minor and arranging a meeting….you’d think they’d catch on as it literally is in the news every single day.
It’s what happens when you think highly visible and accessible sources of cash magically turn into ATMs because you want some or all of it.
Dead man walking.
That is pretty much the size of it. The gravy train has just derailed and whatever funds he has will need to go to lawyers now.
I trust that your move was safe and without incident. I’m sure you are glad to have that behind you. 🙂
My backup computers died — both of them — and I had to get a new AC adapter for my main computer. Isn’t that bizarre? That happened yesterday, my first full day in town.
it happens to my computers frequently.
Ouch!
And this is one of the campaign higher-ups. How many others in the lower ranks are on the hook for similar charges?
Gene Hackman: When the fox guards the henhouse, you will have chicken every time.
from The Quick and the Dead. Only time I liked Leo D.
My fave with Leo D. will always be Inception. And yeah, Quick And The Dead is a pretty fun little Western, even if Leo looked like he was all of 12 at the time.
Trump fails that old classic test of intelligence – being able to hold two competing ideas in the mind at the same time. Given that I wonder how much anti-psychotic meds are being mainlined into him in recent days. Word is that folks in the WH are worried Parsquale might have plenty to say to prosecutors about Team Trump and Trump himself. So, Trump would ordinarily figure just promise him a pardon and be done with him. On the other hand Trump isn’t just a massive grifter, he’s a cheap ass one too! And like a drug kingpin the one unforgivable sin is to steal from the kingpin. They know EXACTLY how much money should be being turned over to them and they will kill someone over a few hundred bucks and make sure others in the organization know, and maybe even have them take part in the killing to make the point of just how bad an idea it is to grift from the boss! Trump grubs over what should be nickels and dimes to someone as wealthy as he (only) claims to be. Some of his scams actually seem pathetic – the lengths he will go to in order to scam thirty grand here, seventy grand there and so on. Turns out he needs every bit of it to stay afloat as so many of us have strongly suspected all along. Considered in THAT light ole Brad making off with tens of millions of what Trump surely considers HIS graft has him bouncing off the walls. The truly unforgivable sin in his eyes. Yet the best thing he can do for himself is to promise to take care of Parsquale with a pardon!
Two competing thoughts and courses of action. Cover over a series of serious financial crimes (probably) which trace back to him or punish his former campaign manager as severely as possible. Like I said this has got to be driving Trump up the wall! And to make it a perfect “entertainment experience” for him he’s got plenty of other problems. All those balls he’s been juggling for so many years/decades are turning into very sharp knives with huge slick handles his tiny hands can’t handle. Like so many bullies he’s actually a wimp and so what might be a death of a thousand cuts is more likely to turn into a proverbial death by getting stuck deep by knives he wasn’t able to juggle!
I’ll wind this up with a few lines from a classic Simon & Garfunkle tune:
Going to the candidate’s debate; Laugh about it shout about it, when you’ve got to choose; Any way you look at it you lose.” On this matter Trump is the one who can laugh, shout, scream & cuss all he wants but in the end it will come down to “Any way you look at it you lose!”
For all intents and purposes, he was already out after that demotion. It’s just now they’re making it official…just in time for him to cut a plea deal.
I think the current question to Troubled-Trump should be: After you lose, do you intend to relocate to Russia? To Turkey? To Saudia Arabia to avoid your crushing tax penalties, your new complexion matching jumpsuit?.
My guess is tRump’s been working on his master escape plan 24/7 about now.