Published 08:06 IST, October 1st 2020

Parscale steps back from Trump team after hospitalization

President Donald Trump's former campaign manager is stepping away from the reelection campaign days after he was hospitalized after Florida law enforcement officials said threatened to harm himself.

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President Donald Trump's former campaign manr is stepping away from reelection campaign days after he was hospitalized after Florida law enforcement officials said threatened to harm himself. Parscale, one of Trump's closest political aides, served as campaign manr for reelection effort until July when he was demoted by Trump. He remained a senior adviser. Parscale's break with Trump campaign was first reported by Politico and was confirmed Wednesday by a campaign official.

On Sunday, police officers talked Parscale out of his Fort Lauderdale home after his wife called police to say that he had multiple firearms and was threatening to hurt himself. He was hospitalized Sunday under state’s Baker Act, which allows anyone deemed to be a threat to mselves or ors to be detained for 72 hours for psychiatric evaluation.

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Parscale's firm developed websites for Trump's personal businesses before working on his 2016 presidential campaign, where he was credited with overseeing campaign's largely unticed but influential, social media efforts that helped promote Trump to Oval Office.

(Im Credits: AP)

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08:06 IST, October 1st 2020