The director of the Trump campaign’s digital operation on Friday morning said he was “unaware of any Russian involvement” in the campaign’s digital and data operations in 2016.
Brad Parscale’s statement came after the House Intelligence Committee requested to interview him, which he said he agreed to do. McClatchy reported Thursday that federal and congressional investigators were looking into whether the campaign’s digital team coordinated with Russia to disseminate fake news and target voters in swing states, down to certain key districts.
The investigators were specifically looking at Jared Kushner, who played a large role in the campaign’s digital operations, McClatchy reported.
Read Parscale’s statement below:
My statement on the House Intelligence Committee's request to interview me about the 2016 election. pic.twitter.com/Aamz6gQFGS
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) July 14, 2017
Unaware? Why? 'Cause there were no entries in Cyrillic??
Sorry, buddy, gotta do better than that…
This guy’s fucked.
It’s weird that someone looking like an extra on a Duck Dynasty location shoot ran Trump’s digital operations.
Maywether is gonna beat the shit out of this dude, and that’s the least of his problems.
Hope he got paid enough for a top-flight lawyer.
On the one hand, IIRC this guy was pulled in pretty much off the street from a relatively non-political street job in the business world. Any competent campaign would of course sanitize the inputs before he saw them. So “I’m not aware” could be totally true and correct.
On the other hand, we have no reason whatsoever to treat this question as though these operations were carried out by a competent campaign.
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