A lawsuit has been filed by a Trump campaign staffer, because it seems NC campaign director Earl Phillip was fond of motivating staffers with a gun. Phillip was relieved of his job just last week.
According to WBTV in Charlotte, when Vincent Bordini approached higher-ups in the campaign, they did nothing. Another campaign official confided to Bordini that he, too, had been threatened at gunpoint by Phillip.
WBTV’s Nick Ochsner posted the first page of Bordini’s complaint on Twitter. The incident took place in Phillip’s Jeep in February of this year, reportedly, when Phillip “produced a pistol, put his right index finger on the trigger, and drove the barrel into Vincent’s knee cap.”
Bordini went straight to campaign officials, the suit says, speaking first to the Trump campaign’s regional director of western North Carolina. “The Director told Vincent that he, too, had been brandished upon by Phillip,” the lawsuit says. “He was terrified.”
According to Ochsner, “campaign leadership, including then-camp mngr Lewandowski, refused to act.”
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Phillip’s Facebook timeline is littered with pro-gun memes. “Until I am out of ammo or out of blood, I WILL FIGHT,” says one post.
“Life is about kicking ass,” says one image depicting an Army special forces operative brandishing an assault weapon, “not kissing it.”
Via Raw Story. I don’t have words for this, I really don’t. At this point, I’m not the least bit surprised, and like most everyone else, the constant stream of awful has left me numb. I know that’s bad, but I’m having trouble maintaining an effective sense of outrage. At this point, I’m just grateful this doucheweasel didn’t manage to kill or maim anyone.
You know and people keep saying that it’s not necessarily about Trump alone, it’s about the team of people who would assemble around him, well, there’s his team, right there. I don’t see any tempering or dilutive effect here, this is just nasty people running a nasty campaign.
Good thing he wasn’t as incompetent as officer incompetent -- he might have hurt or killed someone with that gun. Then his ass-kicking days would be over. Actually, they probably are over, now. He’s going to have to settle for just being an abusive creep.
Until — fasten crash helmets and prepare to eject! — teh trum-prat is electe–WHOOOOOSH!–d and this creep is appoint–WHOOOSH!WHOOOOOOSH!–ed Ambassador.