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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNote the Reference in Indictment to a Texas Based Company
"The defendants also allegedly posed as Americans in online interactions with political and social activists, including one instance outlined by Muellers team in which they communicated with a Texas-based grassroots organization that advised the Russian nationals to direct their efforts toward purple states like Colorado, Virginia and Florida.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/16/trump-russia-indictments-mueller-investigation-415667
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/25/san-antonio-firm-has-growing-role-trump-campaign/
Sanity Claws
(21,851 posts)I want to see the speculation about who it is.
mchill
(1,018 posts)dalton99a
(81,565 posts)WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)Of course, he was brought on by none other than Kushner who reported to none other than Trump. Maybe this will sweep up Spectrum Health too.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Has Mueller interviewed Parscale? - When reading this info (which, I must NOT have been in attendance that day) - this from Jan. 5, 2018 - could this be part of todays announcement..small fish to get the big fish - I want the fishhead!!!!!
http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-eric-trump-russia-investigation-tweets-2018-1
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The digital director of the Trump campaign (Parscal)said Friday that the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and son Eric Trump "were joint deputy campaign managers" whose "approval" was required for every decision before the 2016 election.
"Nobody else. Not one person made a decision without their approval," the digital director, Brad Parscale, tweeted. "Others just took credit for this family's amazing ability. I'm done with all these lies. They will be embarrassed!"
Kushner was Parscale's "patron," according to a person familiar with the campaign's inner workings, which could explain their closeness.
Kushner got Parscale hired, the person said, "despite the fact that a number of people in the campaign wondered whether he had any idea what he was doing."
"He's Jared's boy," the person added. "I had [campaign] deputies telling me they couldn't question anything the guy did or said, and they were unhappy about that."
Parscale's statement also raises questions about what Kushner and Eric Trump knew about George Papadopoulos, the former campaign aide who was charged late last year with making false statements to the FBI.
The campaign has characterized Papadopoulos as a "coffee boy," but evidence has emerged that he attempted for months to set up a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russia, helped craft Trump's first major foreign policy speech, and brokered campaign talks between Trump and Egypt's president.
Papadopoulos also gave an interview as a Trump campaign official to Russia's Interfax News Agency six weeks before Election Day, and he met with Israeli leaders as a foreign policy adviser during the presidential transition period.
Eric Trump, the cohead of the Trump Organization, has so far evaded the spotlight in the Russia investigation. That could change now that the organization has turned over documents to the special counsel Robert Mueller, CNN reported Thursday.
Meanwhile, federal and congressional investigators are reportedly scrutinizing the data operation Kushner supervised and Parscale directed, looking into whether it colluded with Russian bots and trolls that targeted voters with disinformation and propaganda before the US election.
Congressional committees are also investigating whether voter information stolen by Russian hackers from election databases in several US states made its way to the Trump campaign.
Parscale didn't respond to a request for comment.
More at link....
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)Jane Austin
(9,199 posts)that was known to have tried to have Russian ties and tried to organize for Trump.
This isn't about Parscale, because his activities were data and digital.