Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures

[KaraBulut]

Dr Paul Alexander PhD:

 

[KaraBulut]

Update: They're still blaming Parscale. Never mind that the entire Trump family (except Tiffany!) is on the campaign payroll.

How Trump's Billion-Dollar Campaign Lost Its Cash Advantage [NYT]

And lo...

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale hospitalized following reported suicide attempt [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.

 

[KaraBulut]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is waiting for Jesus to run for office...

 

[rareboy]

Of course...turns out that Parscale also beat on his wife.

I think he knows the game is up.

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintel...Yw7QoBw2T8tYpfX_wXXrvixjAupLNSzc7XfteimHTYwWQ

Of course...if he'd been black, with 10 guns...he would likely be dead by now....just a hunch.

 

[KaraBulut]

...I think he knows the game is up.

He was taken into custody under a Baker Act protection which is a 72 hour psychiatric admissions. Not sure what will happen under COVID-19 conditions, but normally someone with money will end up going to a mental health clinic aka "rehab" aka "drunk school".

Not sure what it will take for all of these Trump officials to learn. So much for their "family values".

 

[rareboy]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...deo-of-brad-parscale-getting-tackled-by-cops?

The body slam is delightful to watch....I suspect that he can add divorce to his list of 'things that happened in 2020'

 

[rareboy]

In a statement to Politico on Wednesday, Parscale said he was stepping down to seek help for "overwhelming stress" on both him and his family...Parscale is stepping away from an already diminished role within the campaign, after having been demoted from campaign manager in July. His departure leaves the already struggling campaign without one of its most long-term advisers.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/9189...teps-away-from-campaign-after-police-inciden?

Everything Trump touches, withers and dies.

Everyone Trump uses ends up down and out.

 

[KaraBulut]

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/9189...teps-away-from-campaign-after-police-inciden?

Everything Trump touches, withers and dies.

Everyone Trump uses ends up down and out.

On a related note, Don Jr has been out doing media interviews for a "book" that he has out called "Liberal Privilege". In the interviews, he's sweaty, jerky, watery-eyed and talking a mile-a-minute.

Someone else may be on their way to rehab.

Even his Fox News interviews lately can be described as "logorrhea".

 

[cityboy-stl]

^ Dipping into dad's adderall?

 

[KaraBulut]

^ Dipping into dad's adderall?

Judging from my memory of the 80s, I'd wager it's nose-candy.

In some of the Parscale articles, there's mention that his wife was doing the books for Parscale's election operations companies. Don Jr's girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, was being paid by those companies and she was overheard asking Parscale's wife when she was going to get her check... eager to get the money... hmmm....

 

[cabinfever]

Judging from my memory of the 80s, I'd wager it's nose-candy.

In some of the Parscale articles, there's mention that his wife was doing the books for Parscale's election operations companies. Don Jr's girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, was being paid by those companies and she was overheard asking Parscale's wife when she was going to get her check... eager to get the money... hmmm....

I thought she was skin crawling creepy when she was with Gavin Newsom - and I second the nose candy nomination - just not sure WHICH nose candy.

 

[rareboy]

On a related note, Don Jr has been out doing media interviews for a "book" that he has out called "Liberal Privilege". In the interviews, he's sweaty, jerky, watery-eyed and talking a mile-a-minute.

Someone else may be on their way to rehab.

Even his Fox News interviews lately can be described as "logorrhea".

There's no question but that he and his woman are jacked on something these days.

 

[KaraBulut]

There's no question but that he and his woman are jacked on something these days.

Others have noticed...

 

[KaraBulut]

Trump strategy for COVID-19... sideline your top vaccine specialist and then allow him to resign.

Rick Bright, Trump administration vaccine expert turned whistleblower, resigns NIH post [Stat News]

Rick Bright, the Trump administration vaccine expert turned whistleblower, resigned from the federal government Tuesday, according to a press release from his lawyer.

Bright, who headed the powerful Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, was abruptly reassigned in April to a lesser position at the National Institutes of Health. Bright has alleged he was moved after raising concerns about the Trump administration’s response to Covid-19 and nepotism within the Department of Health and Human Services. In May, he filed a formal whistleblower complaint against his former employer.

 

[KaraBulut]

A moment from Kayleigh's last press conferences before she and all of her staff went out on sick leave...

Get well soon. We miss you.

Fact check from Reuters:

Partly false. Seven of the nine military ballots that had been found discarded in Pennsylvania had been cast for Trump (other two ballots unknown). The FBI and Pennsylvania authorities are investigating the incident.

Reuters previously debunked claims linking the use of mail-in ballots to voter fraud here, here, and here.

 

[KaraBulut]

Mass exits from HHS and CDC...

'A mass exodus': HHS staffers jumping ship amid pandemic, fears of Trump loss [Politico]

At least 27 political appointees have exited the embattled Health and Human Services department since the start of the Covid-19 crisis in February, according to a POLITICO review, and senior leaders are bracing for dozens more officials to depart swiftly if President Donald Trump loses re-election.

Such a wave of departures would leave only a shell staff shepherding the department through a uniquely challenging winter of coronavirus outbreaks and drug and vaccine authorizations until Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, according to interviews with 17 current and former HHS officials, some of whom requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue.

'Toxic': CDC staffers say morale inside the public health agency has plummeted during the pandemic [NBC]

Months of mixed messages, political pressure and public gaffes about Covid-19 have caused morale at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to turn "toxic," said four current and two former CDC staffers, one of whom said the election could be a "tipping point" for a mass exodus if President Donald Trump wins.

"The house is not only on fire," said a veteran CDC staffer who did not want to be named for fear of retribution. "We're standing in ashes."...

Most recently, they said, they wanted to extend the "no sail" order for cruise ships through February. It had been set to expire four days before the Nov. 3 election. Instead, they say, Vice President Mike Pence's office pushed for the order to expire, which stands to benefit 21,000 cruise industry workers in the swing state of Florida....

After the pandemic was declared in March, White House staffers got on the phone to CDC headquarters in Atlanta demanding web administrator credentials to independently edit the website, the former official said. According to the former official, the CDC ultimately denied access, but officials have since then been consistently overruled as they push agency guidance through the Washington approval process.

History will not be kind to these people. When this is all over, there will be a lot of information that comes out about how the White House put politics above the lives of Americans. None of these people want their name associated with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

 

[rareboy]

^ And this is why Trump, McConnell and the GOP can't lose the WH or Senate.

Because if they do the floodgates will open on all the terrible stuff happening in the background.

 

[KaraBulut]

Related to this story over in Days of Distraction...

Trump federal salary adviser resigns over order stripping worker protections [The Hill]

A top appointee to the panel that advises the government on employee compensation resigned Monday over a recent order from President Trump that would strip some federal workers of their employment protections.

Ronald Sanders, a Republican who has served under administrations of both parties, said he could not continue as chair of the Federal Salary Council when the president’s new order “seeks to make loyalty to him the litmus test for many thousands of career civil servants.”

Trump's order, issued Thursday, is being criticized by unions as the biggest change to federal workforce protections in a century, converting many federal workers to “at will” employment.

The order targets policy-oriented positions, creating a new class of employment that makes it easier to fire employees for performance reasons without the opportunity to contest the decision or rely on union representation.

 

[rareboy]

I am exhausted. We are all exhausted.

Please let this thread end with the tsunami of resignations when Trump loses the early vote on Nov 3and in the period between Dec 8 and Jan 20.

Please.

 

[rareboy]

Federal Salary Council Chair Ron Sanders resigned on Monday over President Trump’s recent executive order that strips civil service protections for some federal workers.

“t is clear that its stated purpose notwithstanding, the executive order is nothing more than a smokescreen for what is clearly an attempt to require the political loyalty of those who advise the president, or failing that, to enable their removal with little if any due process," Sanders, a lifelong Republican, wrote in his resignation letter obtained by Politico.

It must be bad when even the Trump appointees are worried about the politcization of the civil service and the implicit threat that they must be loyal only to Trump or they can be fired.

https://www.axios.com/trump-appoint...er-5a4de8e2-4561-4797-b4d5-780e9da1dc9f.html?