The Republican anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project has unveiled a harsh new ad, this time targeting President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign manager, Brad Parscale, who previously ran digital media operations for the Trump team before his elevation to his present position. As the ad outlines, Parscale has been living large on the president’s campaign’s dime, even as Trump’s political position continues to falter. Parscale and Trump himself seem to be banking on relying the same kind of racist, antagonistic behavior that propelled Trump to his surprise 2016 victory — and the campaign continues to reek of outrageous grift.
A narrator in the new Lincoln Project ad explains:
‘Meet Brad Parscale. From deadwood to the man Trump can’t live without. Brad is getting rich. How rich? Really rich. Don’t tell Donald — he’d wonder how Brad can afford so much. A $2.4 million waterfront house in Fort Lauderdale. Two Florida condos worth almost $1 million each. He even has his very own yacht, a gorgeous Ferrari, a sleek Range Rover. Brad brags about using private jets.’
Within an hour and a half of posting, the ad already had over a quarter of a million views on Twitter alone. Check it out below:
This is just another example that @realDonaldTrump is the worst manager America has ever seen. Don, you got conned … by your IT guy. pic.twitter.com/x5i7GRqEYb
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 20, 2020
The leaders of The Lincoln Project include Republican consultant Rick Wilson, conservative lawyer George Conway — whose wife, Kellyanne, is a longtime top Trump adviser — and more. Trump has already publicly whined about George Conway in the past, but that’s not exactly slowed down The Lincoln Project’s operations. Recently, they launched a digital ad called “Mourning in America” that outlines the president’s abject failures in responding to the deadly Coronavirus pandemic and has spread far and wide around the web. That ad in particular is apparently now even running on television.
Mourning In America—the ad that so enraged @realDonaldTrump—is now running on TV and digital media in the critical swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Iowa. pic.twitter.com/wqEdlU2K2m
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 20, 2020
Trump freaked out in response to the Mourning in America ad, which highlighted the loss of life and other damages in the U.S. that he might like to forget. He called those behind the ad a “group of RINO Republicans who failed badly 12 years ago, then again 8 years ago, and then got BADLY beaten by me, a political first timer, 4 years ago,” but as one of those behind the ad, Reed Galen, pointed out, “no commercial should have the power to derail the leader of the free world.” Trump proved their point about his instability.
Check out Twitter’s response to the latest Lincoln Project ad below:
There are few ads that have brought me more glee than this one . . . because there are few characters in this nightmare that I despise more than Brad Parscale. https://t.co/0dGir8pHJK
— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin 🩸🦷 (@ECMcLaughlin) May 20, 2020
Love this from @ProjectLincoln. Looks like the start of Project Death Star. https://t.co/lY7BKnDNsn
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) May 20, 2020
It's important to underscore that Trump actually *doesn't* care that Parscale has all this money—as the money came from poor grandmothers in Midwestern battleground states who had no idea they were bankrolling a formerly broke dude now living a lifestyle they could only dream of https://t.co/sfeUBV8zWp
— Seth Abramson (@🏠) (@SethAbramson) May 20, 2020
This explains why Brad Parscale sends me emails, seemingly hourly, trying to shake me down by claiming "Mr. Trump was just asking about you, Betty. He is worried that you haven't donated to his campaign."
Brad must think I'm as gullible as Trump's *real* supporters. #BestPeople https://t.co/lb595zkXXr
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) May 20, 2020
THIS is what @TheRickWilson has been working so hard on lately..
And it's spectacular
So grateful that he's on our side this time!#DonGotConned #VoteForYourLife #WednesdayWisdom https://t.co/IAYgqECtFU— Mona (@Monaheart1229) May 20, 2020
