Trump Campaign Digital Director Will Be Interviewed By House Intel Committee

FILE--In this photo from Friday, July 15, 2016, Brad Parscale, then candidate Donald Trump's campaign digital director, stands on the stage of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. During a Sunday, Oct. 8,... FILE--In this photo from Friday, July 15, 2016, Brad Parscale, then candidate Donald Trump's campaign digital director, stands on the stage of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. During a Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017 interview, Parscale told CBS's 60 Minutes that the Trump presidential campaign spent most of its digital advertising budget on Facebook, testing thousands of ad variations each day in an attempt to micro-target voters. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file) MORE LESS
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The digital director for President Donald Trump’s campaign will be interviewed on Tuesday by the House Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the Wall Street Journal confirmed Monday.

The Senate committees also probing Russian interference — and whether or not the Trump campaign was involved — have not scheduled interview times with Brad Parscale yet, according to the Journal.

Parscale’s web design and digital marketing firm, Giles-Parscale, worked for the Trump campaign for 18 months and was reportedly paid $88 million for its work. Since the election, Parscale helped launch the America First Policies nonprofit and is also working on Trump’s reelection campaign.

Parscale’s testimony could prove insightful for the House investigators as it looks ahead to its interviews with social media giants — Facebook Inc., Google and Twitter Inc. — next month, after reports surfaced in recent weeks that Russian troll farms bought socially and political divisive advertisements on multiple platforms leading up to the election.

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  1. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    What did he know, and when did he know it?

  2. web design and digital marketing firm, Giles-Parscale, worked for the Trump campaign for 18 months and was reportedly paid $88 million

  3. Yawn. Wake me up when they subpoena voting machine manufacturers. Until that happens Republican’ts will continue illegally manipulating elections with no Russians required…

  4. I saw an interview with him…60 Minutes???..he’s pretty darn sharp. A true believer (of Trump) and arrogant but that’s ‘tech’.

  5. This guy went from hawking for clients in a bookstore (“Hey, you need a website??”) to being paid tens of millions of dollars by Trump. I’ve looked at a few of his websites and they look like they were created by a high school kid, many of them only one or two pages!

    Fishy.

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