On the evening of January 6, 2021, Brad Parscale texted Donald Trump adviser Katrina Pierson about the insurrectionist assault on the US Capitol that had finally been quashed by police. "This is about [T]rump pushing for uncertainty in our country," wrote Parscale, who ran digital and data operations for Trump's 2016 campaign and managed his 2020 reelection effort before being replaced. This week I feel guilty for helping him win." "You did what you felt right at the time and therefore it was right," Pierson replied. "Yeah," Parscale answered, "but a woman is dead." The conversation continued, with Pierson texting, "You do realize this was going to happen." Parscale responded that Trump's rhetoric had "killed someone." Pierson countered, "It wasn't the rhetoric." Parscale was obviously blaming Trump for the storming of the Capitol and the death of Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt. In these private texts--which were not made public until mid-2022 during the House investigation of January ...

Former Trump campaign manager reacts to 2020 election results in exclusive interview on'The Story' Former Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale has accused "D-level" "talking heads" in the president's orbit of starting a whisper campaign that forced him out earlier this year. Speaking with Fox News' Martha MacCallum in an exclusive interview on "The Story" Tuesday night, Parscale alleged that "when the polling numbers were going down, they were in his ear and I was out working." Discussing a reported incident in which Trump berated Parscale for passing along a bad polling report, the former campaign manager said: "I didn't like lying to him -- I like telling the truth. Sometimes that comes with a lot of painful days, knowing that I might let him down or make him upset, but a lot of the D-level people that hung around him told him what he wanted to hear: They were'yes' men. I wasn't going to be'yes' man, but a'get it done' man." Parscale did not name anyone as being specifically responsible for his ouster in mid-July, when he was replaced by Bill Stepien.