Ex-campaign manager who blamed Trump for Jan. 6 is making a fortune by helping his 2024 campaign

In July 2022, the January 6 Select Committee described text messages that former Donald Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale had sent to Trump ally Katrina Pierson following the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building.

The night of January 6, 2021, Parscale lamented the violence that had occurred that day and expressed remorse for his role in Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns. Parscale told Pierson, "This is about Trump pushing for uncertainty in this country. A sitting president asking for civil war."

Parscale went on to say that he felt "guilty" for "helping him" because "a woman is dead." When Parscale told Pierson, "If I was Trump and knew my rhetoric killed someone," she responded, "It wasn't the rhetoric." But Parscale maintained, "Katrina. Yes it was."

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But in a biting article published on December 12, Mother Jones journalists David Corn and Stephanie Mencimer report that the remorse he expressed in early 2021 "isn't getting in the way of Parscale's desire to make a buck" in 2023.

"Since the start of 2023," they explain, "Parscale has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars providing services to Trump's 2024 campaign with a company that boasts it uses artificial intelligence to assist conservative candidates."

In those texts he sent Pierson, Corn and Mencimer write, Parscale "was obviously blaming Trump for the storming of the Capitol and the death of Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt."

But this year, they report, Parscale's "Campaign Nucleus business" has "pocketed at least $385,000 in payments from Trump-related entities in 2023, through October."

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"FEC filings show that the firm is collecting $20,000 a month from Trump's election committee for fundraising software," according to the Mother Jones reporters. "It has also received $25,000 from Make America Great Again, Inc., the pro-Trump super PAC, for web hosting and e-mail marketing. Campaign Nucleus pulled in an additional $180,000 for fundraising services from Trump Save America, a joint fundraising effort that benefits Trump's official campaign committee and a Trump-run PAC."

Corn and Mencimer add, "This is quite a haul for Parscale's new company. Its only other major federal client is the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which paid the firm about $70,000 for list rentals."

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Mother Jones' full report is available at this link.