Senior Trump Advisers Anticipated Twitter Ban, Urged Trump To Switch To Parler In Early 2020

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale urged President Donald Trump in early 2020 to invest heavily in an account on the Parler social media app in anticipation of being banned from Twitter and Facebook, a former senior Trump campaign adviser told the Daily Caller on Friday.

The adviser said Parscale foresaw that Twitter and Facebook would “most likely” ban the president before leaving office, an event that ultimately came to pass Friday. Parscale made the case for Parler, a social media company that markets itself  on free speech absolutism, to Trump at a Cabinet room meeting in early 2020, the adviser said. The plan received pushback from senior adviser Jared Kushner and was ultimately tabled in July with Parscale’s departure from the campaign, the adviser said.

Another former senior Trump campaign official confirmed that Parscale was pushing Trump toward Parler and warned him that bans were likely.

If it had been enacted, Parscale’s plan would have seen a drastic shift in where Americans go to view real-time comments from the president, the adviser said. Parscale suggested that Trump post messages to Parler a full hour prior to posting them on Twitter or Facebook, causing not only his followers to transfer away from mainstream platforms but the media as well, accoridng to the adviser.

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