Trump Responds to Reports That He ‘Threatened to Sue’ Campaign Manager Over Plummeting Poll Numbers
by
Jerry Lambe | 11:13 am, April 30th, 2020
""""President
Donald Trump threatened to sue his campaign manager
Brad Parscale last week, blaming Parscale for his recent slide in swing state polls, according to Wednesday and Thursday reports from
The Washington Post and
CNN. Trump was reportedly upset that his campaign’s internal polling data showed him trailing Democratic presidential nominee
Joe Biden in several states key to his re-election bid.
Trump, who is notoriously litigious, was surrounded by several advisors as he reportedly “berated” Parscale and threatened to file a lawsuit.
“Within moments, the President was shouting — not at the aides in the room, but into the phone — at his campaign manager Brad Parscale, three people familiar with the matter told CNN. Shifting the blame away from himself, Trump berated Parscale for a recent spate of damaging poll numbers, even at one point threatening to sue Parscale,” CNN reported, adding, “It’s not clear how serious the President’s threat of a lawsuit was.”"""
"""Both outlets also reported that advisors were showing Trump his declining numbers–a trend that has been consistent for several weeks–in order to convince him to scale back on his public press briefings, during which he has become increasingly
untethered from facts and unrestrained.
According to the
Post, prior to his call with Parscale, Trump was in a particularly foul mood over a surge in criticism he’d been receiving for comments made during the prior day’s press briefing during which he wondered aloud if the COVID-19 coronavirus could be killed in humans by injecting or ingesting disinfectants."""
President Donald Trump threatened to sue his campaign manager Brad Parscale last week, blaming Parscale for his recent slide in swing state polls, according to Wednesday and Thursday reports from The Washington Post and CNN. Trump was reportedly upset that his campaign’s internal polling data...
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