Former Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale is a weirdo and his dad Dwight, a former Kansas Assistant AG is even weirder, according to an excerpt from “Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost” by the Wall Street Journal’s Michael C Bender:
“Dwight, a former assistant attorney general, spent two decades practicing law, but left the field after getting so upset at a ruling, he told friends, he wanted to ‘beat the crap’ out of the judge. Brad described his upbringing as ‘not overly redneck.’ Dwight had also run, unsuccessfully, for a series of political offices, including a U.S. House seat before Brad was born, and Kansas attorney general in 1990. The two were close. When Brad accepted a scholarship to play basketball at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Dwight moved the family to be close to him. Dwight had hoped some of Brad’s political success in 2016 would help revive his own ambitions, and in 2018, he ran for Republican chairman of Bexar County, Texas. Dwight had been endorsed for the Bexar County position by the outgoing chairman, Robert Stovall, who vacated the seat after Brad endorsed him in a Republican primary for a congressional seat. Stovall and Dwight both lost.”
“Dwight again appealed to Brad for work in 2020, asking his son to have Trump appoint him director of the FBI. When Brad refused, they stopped speaking for a stretch… Brad would repeatedly find similarities between his father and Trump: Both men were 74 years old, prone to conspiracy theories, and had businesses that went into bankruptcy and Brad maintained complicated relationships with each that were often knotted around money. Brad also had a tendency to view himself as another of the Trump kids. He took it as a sign that while he, Don Junior, Eric, and Jared were all born in different years, their birthdays fell within the same eleven-day stretch between December 31 and January 10. ‘That’s statistically very rare,’ Brad told them when he first put it together. ‘I don’t know if it’s celestial, but if you’re born in the cold weather, it affects how you approach the rest of your life.’ Don Junior and Jared were less amazed. ‘So what, Brad?’ Jared said.”