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Fort Lauderdale police confiscated 10 guns Sunday from the home of President Donald Trump’s former reelection campaign manager.

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Brad Parscale, 44, was involuntarily hospitalized under Florida’s Baker Act by officers and taken to Broward Health Medical Center Sunday after isolating himself in the $2.4 million home he shares in Fort Lauderdale’s Seven Isles with his wife, Candice. In reports, audio and body camera footage released Monday, police documented a tense scene in which Parscale — after possibly firing a shot inside his house — initially refused to leave his home and was ultimately tackled by officers on the street when he emerged shirtless with a beer in his hand.

“Listen, I’m not trying to kill myself. She’s lying,” the 6-foot-8-inch Parscale tells an officer who approaches him in his driveway before he’s driven to the ground and handcuffed.

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Police have not charged Parscale with any crimes, but were preparing a petition Monday under Florida’s “red flag” law to request that his guns be taken away.

  Miami Herald

Tackled is right. I'm no fan of Brad Parscale, but if you watch the video embedded in the article, a (much smaller) policeman makes a running tackle at Parscale (who's calmly talking to another officer, by the way), knocking him clean off his feet onto the paved street. Although Parscale appears to be drunk or drugged and shows no pain reaction at all, he's wearing shorts, no shirt, and is barefoot. I bet he's got some serious road burn.

Officers say they were called to the Parscale home around 3:36 p.m. Sunday by a Realtor who had encountered a shaken Candice Parscale while preparing to show a house nearby. The two women called 911 from the Realtor’s car parked down the street, and remained there when police arrived.

“I was standing in the backyard,” Candice Parscale told an emergency dispatcher. “He’s under a lot of stress right now. He’s just pissed at the world so he like walked out, cocked the handgun and was just ranting and raving about something. I don’t know what.”

His scam had come to an end. He was unhappy.

Parscale led Trump’s reelection campaign until he was fired by the president as campaign manager in mid July. He continued working for the campaign as digital director remotely from Florida.

Fired him after the embarrassing Tulsa debacle that was supposedly going to have 1,000,000 fans and ended up with about 6,000.

Officers also wrote in their reports that Parscale’s wife told them he had post-traumatic stress disorder and had become violent in recent weeks.

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“While speaking with Candace Parscale I noticed several large sized contusions on both of her arms, her cheek and forehead,” wrote Detective Steven Smith, slightly misspelling Candice Parscale’s first name. “When I asked how she received the bruising, Candace Parscale stated Brad Parscale hits her.”

Hits. As in a repeated action.

One officer wrote that he sounded drunk and would not leave the house. Another reported that he smelled like alcohol.

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Later, police reported removing two shotguns, two rifles, a .22 caliber revolver and five handguns from the home.

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Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, wished Parscale well Sunday and blamed Democrats and Republicans-in-name-only, or RINOs, for the incident.

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"The disgusting, personal attacks from Democrats and disgruntled RINOs have gone too far, and they should be ashamed of themselves for what they’ve done to this man and his family.”

Sure. It's the Dems fault.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Well, there IS that.