Parscale Says He Hasn’t Spoken With POTUS Lately After Hospitalization: ‘It’s Pretty Hurtful’

Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale is seen before the start of a rally by President Donald Trump at Landers Center in Southaven, Mississippi, on October 2, 2018. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Brad Parscale, President Donald Trump’s former 2020 campaign manager who was hospitalized in September over a suicide threat, said on Tuesday night that he and the President haven’t been in contact lately.

“I have not,” Parscale replied when Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked in a pre-taped interview if the two men had spoken with each other recently. “And it’s pretty hurtful.”

“But it’s probably just as much my fault as his,” he added. “I love that family, and I gave every inch of my life to them. Every inch.”

Asked what he would say to Trump, Parscale said “Keep fighting. Don’t give up. Don’t give up. The country needs you.”

Near the end of September, Fort Lauderdale Police (FLPD) officers were dispatched to Parscale’s home after his wife Candice Blount reported that the then-campaign official, who had been demoted several months prior, was armed and threatening suicide. Parscale was then taken to a nearby hospital.

Several days later, Parscale announced that he was “stepping away” from “any role in the campaign for the immediate future.”

Shortly after the incident, Trump campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh called Parscale a “member of our family” whom “we all love.”

“We are ready to support him and his family in any way possible,” said Murtaugh.

Watch Parscale below:

Notable Replies

  1. Oh. Brad has a sad. Too bad.

  2. Poor, poor Brad. Treated like just another contractor. But with one major exception: He was between Toadglans and the money instead of the other way around, so he got paid. Handsomely, I might add.

  3. Brad, here’s a hint and half for you: Donnie doesn’t care about you. He never did. He only cares about himself, and will jettison anyone, family, friend, or foe. Get over it.

  4. Cry me a river, scumbag.

  5. “And it’s pretty hurtful.”

    I’ll bet the millions you stole are a calming salve though, eh?

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