Brad ParscalHe served as President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager until July, when he was barricaded with weapons at his home on Sunday night and taken to a mental health facility after threatening to harm himself, police said. Parscal was taken into custody without injury and moved to a local hospital.
Fort Lauderdale police said they responded to a call of a suicide attempt by an armed man around 4 p.m., who called, police said he was armed and had several firearms in the residence. Officers determined he was the only person inside the residence.
Police said officers contacted Parscal and developed a rapport, and then negotiated a safe exit from the home. It is being held under the Baker Act, Florida law, which allows 72 hours of involuntary institutionalization for a person who is considered to be at risk.
Fort Lauderdale police released body footage of the incident on Monday. In the footage, a woman believed to be Parskell’s wife told police that Parskell was “getting erratic” and “came out of his office fee and was shot.” She said she went outside the front yard to “place him” before she heard a loud boom. Officers began talking to him on the phone and asking him to leave the house without a weapon.
In other footage, Parskell was sitting in front of his home as he approached the officer. Parcel, who was shirtless and holding a drink in one hand, approached an officer and appeared calm. “I’m not trying to kill myself, I’m fine, I’m your friend,” Parcel told the officer, who said in a police report that he was friends with Parcel and rushed to the scene for help when he heard. About the situation.
Parcel then placed the compartment on top of the truck in the driveway. At that moment, several officers grabbed him, screaming for him to quickly confront him and land on the ground before handcuffing him. “I didn’t do anything,” Parcel said while he was on the ground.
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtuf said in a statement that Parscal “is a member of our family and we all love him.”
“We are ready to support him and his family in any way possible,” Murtuh said. “The heinous, personal attacks made by Democrats and disgruntled RIOs have gone too far, and they should be ashamed of themselves for what they have done for this man and his family.”
Parcel also linked Mr. Trump’s anger last year to his campaign and stories of large payments to his companies from the Republican National Committee and reports of Parsley’s lavish lifestyle. Parscal has at least one stake in Parscle Strategy, LLC, which has been paid eight figures by the Trump Campaign, the Republican National Committee and the two joint fund commit land committees linking the Campaign and the National Party Committee. The president’s campaign manager – and the president himself – complained about how much profit he was making from the campaign, and there was growing resentment around Parscal.
A close ally of the Trump family, Parscal served as the digital director of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and was promoted to publicity manager for the 2020 campaign. Mr. Trump broke Parscale and replaced him with Bill Stepan in July, although he is a senior adviser to the campaign.
Parscale’s reassignment came weeks later Mr. Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who was believed to have returned to the campaign by the president. The campaign – and Parscale – requested 10 million tickets for the 19,000-person area, but only 6,200 showed up. The campaign will begin on June 19, or in the U.S. The date had to be changed after setting a schedule for the day’s rally to celebrate the end of slavery in.
Pat Milton, Arden Farhi and Nicole Saganga contributed to this report.
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