Article 61BBE Ex-campaign chief texted ally Trump’s January 6 rhetoric ‘killed someone’

Ex-campaign chief texted ally Trump’s January 6 rhetoric ‘killed someone’

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Martin Pengelly
from US news | The Guardian on (#61BBE)

A sitting president asking for civil war,' Brad Parscale told Katrina Pierson, a former campaign spokesperson

Donald Trump's former campaign manager told another close ally that the then president's rhetoric killed someone" on 6 January 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol.

Brad Parscale ran Trump's winning campaign in 2016 and was in place for some of his losing effort in 2020. Katrina Pierson, a former campaign spokesperson, helped organise a rally Trump addressed near the White House on January 6.

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