Former Trump campaign chief taken to hospital
By Brett Clarkson, Austen Erblat, David Lyons and Brittany Wallman
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A tense situation unfolded at a home owned by Brad Parscale, the former campaign manager for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and a former San Antonian, after his wife called police to say that Parscale had guns and was threatening to harm himself, Fort Lauderdale police said Sunday night.
Police were called to a home in the 2300 block of Desota Drive in the Seven Isles community of Fort Lauderdale on Sunday afternoon. Records showthat the home is owned by Bradley and Candice Parscale.
Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Karen Diet rich said the encounter at Brad Parscale’s home was brief.
“We went out and it was very short. We went and got him help,” she said.
Dietrich said he didn’t threaten police and he went willingly under Florida’s Baker Act, which allows police to detain a person who is potentially a threat to him-
self or others. He was taken to a hospital, she said.
Hiswife contacted police,
worried that he was suicidal and had firearms.
Fort Lauderdale Mayor
Dean Trantalis said he received a text saying that therewas a SWAT stand off at Parscale’s home. “It was indicated to me that he had weapons,” he said.
Trantalis could not confirm itwas the same Parscale associated with Trump but said he knows Trump’s former campaign manager does have a home in Fort Lauderdale.
“Politics aside, this fellow obviously suffers from emotional distress,” said Trantalis, a Democrat. “… I’m glad he didn’t do any harm to himself or others. I commend our SWAT team.”