Trump’s 2020 Campaign Manager Expected to Tap Former Spox Katrina Pierson For Major Role
Earlier this week, the Drudge Report came out with a “WORLD EXCLUSIVE” that President Donald Trump was going to run for re-election in 2020 and that he had named Brad Parscale as his campaign manager. Parscale, as you may recall, was the 2016 campaign’s digital media director.
According to a Daily Beast report, it looks like Parscale won’t be the only familiar face from the 2016 run that will be involved in the 2020 campaign.
Knowledgeable sources say that among the senior staff Parscale is expected to assemble for Trump’s re-election effort is Katrina Pierson, a Trump loyalist and one of the 2016 campaign’s most prominent firebrands.
The sources further told the Beast that the ex-Trump campaign spokesperson was a “shoo-in for a position of her choosing” and that she could pick pretty much any post she wanted. They noted that it seemed most likely she’d take a communications job with the campaign.
During the 2016 election, Pierson became something of a notorious figure over her at-times off-the-rails TV segments in which she’d tend to make herself the story, rather than the candidate she was flacking for. Besides her whopper that the United States didn’t enter Afghanistan until Obama decided to go in, Pierson was well-known for mixing it up with anchors and hosts, leading to many of them mocking her to her face over her outlandish claims and defenses of Trump’s comments.
Following Trump’s election, Pierson was seen at Trump Tower as she reportedly vied for the White House press secretary gig. Per a senior Trump official, however, she was denied a spot in the administration when she badmouthed Sean Spicer after he was named press secretary.
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