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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:42 PM Jun 2018

Trump 2020 Campaign Manager: 'Time To Fire Sessions,' End Mueller Probe

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Nicole Lafond | June 19, 2018 1:09 pm

President Donald Trump’s campaign manager for the 2020 presidential election tweeted Tuesday that it’s “time to fire” Attorney General Jeff Sessions and end special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Citing the Justice Department’s inspector general report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation as “the truth to end it all,” Brad Parscale said “you can’t obstruct something that was phony against you.”




Parscale, who worked as a digital media director on the 2016 campaign that’s under investigation, appears to be seizing on a Trump talking point that the DOJ IG report released last week “totally exonerates” the President of any wrongdoing associated with Mueller’s probe.

The IG report, in part, concluded that while former FBI director James Comey broke from precedent in his handling of the Clinton investigation, he was not politically motivated in doing so. The report was critical of Comey, which Trump allies have used to fortify Trump and his decision to fire Comey last year.


Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-2020-campaign-manager-time-fire-sessions
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Trump 2020 Campaign Manager: 'Time To Fire Sessions,' End Mueller Probe (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP
This dude is bad news. MariaCSR Jun 2018 #1
This explains his personal reason for wanting the investigation to end karynnj Jun 2018 #4
Exactly. MariaCSR Jun 2018 #8
Dangerous montanacowboy Jun 2018 #2
1) Parscale is liable; 2) he needs the job Loge23 Jun 2018 #3
Does he have a lawyer yet? SansACause Jun 2018 #5
Sessions loves his power. He will have to be dragged out. riversedge Jun 2018 #6
NY AG NOMOGOP Jun 2018 #7
"you can't obstruct something that was phony against you." What a genius. Judi Lynn Jun 2018 #9
 

MariaCSR

(642 posts)
1. This dude is bad news.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:56 PM
Jun 2018

One of the comments:


Do not underestimate the evil of Parscale.

He is the one who Jared worked with on the social media campaign side by side with Cambridge Analytica. He was based in San Antonio, but has since moved at least part of his digital operation to Florida. Recently, it became known that he has hooked up with the remnant company of Cambridge employees, Data Propria.

'The AP learned of Data Propria’s role in Trump’s re-election effort as a result of conversations held with political contacts and prospective clients in recent weeks by Oczkowski and Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale. In one such conversation, which took place in a public place and was overheard by two AP reporters, Oczkowski said he and Parscale were “doing the president’s work for 2020.”

In addition, a person familiar with Data Propria’s Washington efforts, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect business relationships, confirmed to the AP that Trump-related 2020 work already had begun at the firm along the lines of Cambridge Analytica’s 2016 work."

https://www.theroot.com/ex-cambridge-analytica-employees-are-working-on-trumps-1826889028

Parscale denies any knowledge of Russian involvement,

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/19/trump-russian-digital-parscale-470263

but based on the last two days, that onion is getting peeled back with others.

Keep your eye on this guy.

karynnj

(59,504 posts)
4. This explains his personal reason for wanting the investigation to end
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:02 PM
Jun 2018

The dissemination of fake stories and smears to micro groups of people, who could be driven by them, while no one in the more mainstream part of the population sees them was done using CA. If they took content from the Russians, this makes the whole thing illegal - rather than just the next refinement in microtargeting used in past elections.

Loge23

(3,922 posts)
3. 1) Parscale is liable; 2) he needs the job
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:01 PM
Jun 2018

Parscale is almost certainly a familiar name to the Mueller investigation and he knows this - hence the plea to end it.
At the least, Parscale is hoping to extend his tenure as campaign manager.

The reality Parscale faces is jail time.

 

NOMOGOP

(87 posts)
7. NY AG
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:25 PM
Jun 2018

Time for interim NY AG to start filing criminal charges from everything from bank fraud to money laundering to charity foundation misuse. IRS needs to get it's ass in gear too.

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