In 2016, Donald Trump boasted that he had “the best people” running his campaign. Three different campaign managers later, Trump landed in the White House and in hot water thanks to the “best people” and their questionable actions and tactics.
“The overall objective of the Russian effort was to mess with our heads and erode confidence,” says Hayden.
“And they decided by mid-summer that the very best way they could mess with our heads was to make more people vote for Donald Trump, period.”https://t.co/qxnZvVrzQI
— POLITICO Magazine (@POLITICOMag) February 27, 2018
On Tuesday, White House insiders told reporters that Trump has named his new campaign manager for his 2020 presidential run, and the questions already surrounding that choice before the president ever mentioned his name make the decision a rather confusing one.
BREAKING: President Trump has hired Brad Parscale, the digital media director of his 2016 campaign, to run his 2020 campaign, a source with knowledge tells CNN https://t.co/iNfDFBki8d pic.twitter.com/NeKdOfYAJM
— CNN (@CNN) February 27, 2018
CBS News described his role in the 2016 elections during a piece on his success in social media:
‘He was hired to run the digital team, but over time came to oversee advertising, data collection and much of the fund-raising. As digital director, he’s being drawn into the investigation of whether the campaign colluded with the Russians in the election. It’s a charge he denies. He says he was focused on competing with the Clinton campaign’s huge advantage in money and TV ads. What he decided to do was turn to social media, most importantly to Facebook.’
Social media ad campaigns are at the heart of the Trump/Russia collusion story, making Parscale an odd choice to focus on, indeed.
CNN confirms that Trump has picked BRAD PARSCALE to be his 2020 campaign manager. Parscale helped lead Trump 2016's data analytics, which is now under scrutiny by Mueller. Parscale himself gave testimony to House Intel for its probe of Russian meddling. https://t.co/3m6GFkwGxi
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) February 27, 2018
According to CNN:
‘Parscale has repeatedly insisted he had no knowledge of the Russian operation to influence the 2016 campaign in favor of Trump, and against Clinton. He says that is what he told congressional investigators behind closed doors last year when he went before the Senate and House intelligence committees looking into Russian meddling.‘Yet Parscale has gotten caught up in controversial actions Cambridge Analytica, a prominent conservative data firm that he hired to work for the Trump campaign.’
