President Trump’s former campaign manager and current campaign senior advisor, Brad Parscale, has been taken into custody Sunday evening by Fort Lauderdale Police after threatening to harm himself at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to ABC News.
A public information officer with the Ft. Lauderdale Police Department said a 911 call was placed by Parscale’s wife who advised that “her husband was armed, had access to multiple firearms inside the residence and was threatening to harm himself. Officers determined the only occupant inside the home was the adult male.”
The officer said he was detained without injury and taken to Broward Health Medical Center.
Parscale was removed as campaign manager in July after a lightly attended but much-hyped campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was then replaced by deputy campaign manager Bill Stepien, but has been serving as a senior adviser to the campaign.
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told ABC News, “Brad Parscale is a member of our family and we all love him. We are ready to support him and his family in any way possible. The disgusting, personal attacks from Democrats and disgruntled RINOs have gone too far, and they should be ashamed of themselves for what they’ve done to this man and his family.”
Parscale had kept a low profile since the demotion. In August, he tweeted that he was “employee number 1 in 2015 for the exploration committee” and that his team “built the biggest infrastructure in history.”
In February 2018, he was named campaign manager ahead of the midterm elections.
Before being named campaign manager, Parscale joined America First that works to support trump’s agenda outside the White House, as a senior adviser.
Parscale has also done work on behalf of the Republican National Committee. The news was first published in ABC News.
