Talk:Brad Parscale

Brad Parscale Wikipedia Expansion #maga
Brad Parscale played a large role in the Trump Campaign and promotion of Trump's political campaign slogan Make America Great Again. I believe that there is a lot that can be expanded upon under his Career section and perhaps even a sub-section containing more comprehensive information regarding the tactics and strategies that Parscale used to advance the campaign. Specifically, I would like go into greater detail regarding the Facebook promotion and different tailoring he did for his social media efforts. The importance of Parscale's work in the campaign and the various roles he held are not detailed in this page and can be updated. Parscale has recently been in the news and is gaining increasing attention. I would also consider adding more personal details regarding his other projects.

I plan to utilize the following sources:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/07/trumps-use-of-digital-media-novices-may-have-helped-him-win.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parscale-tv-news-thought-i-was-a-joke/

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/09/brad-parscale-says-trump-campaign-used-facebook-to-beat-clinton.html

https://www.parscale.com/portfolio

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/man-behind-trumps-bid-finally-take-digital-seriously/

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/how-facebook-ads-helped-elect-trump/

"Democrats fume over Parscale's limited answers on Russian digital meddling"
politico.com 18 March 2018.

I'm no native speaker and would appreciate it if a wikipedia fellow would use some of the infos in the article. --Neun-x (talk) 17:46, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

twitter account?
Does Parscale have a twitter account? X1\ (talk) 00:36, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
 * https://twitter.com/parscale
 * Not much of a YouTuber, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTML4PV532JnL62XQU7O-sw/featured User:Fred Bauder Talk 05:53, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The 60 Minutes Interview (CBS subscription required) User:Fred Bauder Talk 06:25, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * https://www.facebook.com/ElectTrump2020/ User:Fred Bauder Talk 06:33, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Editor who created article appears to have WP:COI issue
I note here, primarily for the record, that User:Theresa Hong, who created the article several years ago, appears to be a member of Brad Pascale's 2016 digital campaign team, and so obviously had an (undeclared) conflict of interest - writing an article about one's boss.

Having said that, I note that (a) the initial version of the article was fairly neutral in tone, and (b) this article has undergone lots of edits and changes in the past three-plus years.-- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:59, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Technology expertise and other issues
I removed the sentence "During this time [in Orange County - jb], he immersed himself in the state's burgeoning technology industry, teaching himself over the years a host of programming languages." I found no support for that in either of the cited sources (Time magazine, https://time.com/5177627/brad-parscale-donald-trump-campaign-manager/, no longer in the article, and ProPublica). I'm not disputing that Parscale is a self-taught coder, but rather that there is no support for his learning to code while in Orange County, where he was a sales manager, a job that didn't require any coding skills.

I also removed "He also co-founded SATechBloc, an organization focused on supporting San Antonio's technology sector". The cited source says that Parscale was "one of the founding members", which isn't quite the same thing - there are usually two to four "co-founders" of an organization, while in fact there were 70 founding members, per https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2018/05/15/after-ushering-the-trump-circus-into-the-white-house-brad-parscale-is-turning-his-megaphone-on-san-antonio. So this is a clear case of WP:UNDUE.

Regarding Pascale's father's political party in 1990, admittedly a minor point, I have used a Kansas publication (that Dwight Pascale was a Democrat) rather than the Washington Post, because (a) I believe the Post's account is based on information provided by Brad Parscale, not by fact-checking, and (b) the fact-checking I have done, while not conclusive, indicates that Dwight Pascale ran against another Democrat, Bert Cantwell, rather than the three-term Republican incumbent Bob Stephan; what complicates the research is that it appears that Dwight Parscale dropped out before the August 1990 primary election.

Overall, this editing - of just four paragraphs in the article - has been among the most frustrating I've ever done, because it seemed like almost every citations didn't fully support the text it claimed to. For example, that Brad's mother Rita was a "small business owner" is sourced to https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-brad-parscale-once-a-nobody-in-san-antonio-shaped-trumps-combative-politics-and-rose-to-his-inner-circle/2018/11/09/b4257d58-dbb7-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html, but that article doesn't contain the words "Rita", "mother", or "small business". So I ended up making lots of edits, removing irrelevant sources, and changing text to fit sources that in fact were on point. If the new text doesn't much resemble the old, well, there is a reason. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:01, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

To add to article
To add to this article: the accusations of money laundering made against Parscale in late September 2020, specifically in connection with the reelection campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump. The campaign is being accused of having laundered $170 million through various companies, some with ties to former campaign manager Brad Parscale. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 06:13, 2 October 2020 (UTC)


 * If the "money laundering" accusation never materialized into an indictment, should it be recognized as a false accustation? 70.120.212.174 (talk) 19:49, 27 February 2024 (UTC)