Brad Parscale, the campaign manager for President Trump‘s re-election campaign, is pushing back against a report stating that he gave Rob Porter a new job.
Earlier today, the Daily Mail reported that Parscale brought Porter on board shortly after the former White House aide was ousted during his domestic abuse scandal. A source told Daily Mail that “Trump felt badly about Porter’s ouster and the way it played out,” and the president wanted Parscale to put Porter on his payroll as a secret favor to him.
Multiple Trump campaign staffers are denying the story, not the least of which is Parscale himself:
Reporters from multiple news outlets have received similar statements from campaign officials, and the Washington Examiner‘s Gabby Morrongiello received a clue for who might have been behind the fake story.
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