Apparent 33% Pay Cut For Campaign Manager Hints At Money Trouble For Trump

[left-of-center2012]

Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien appears to have taken a 33% pay cut ― $5,000 a month — when he accepted his promotion this summer, another sign of money trouble for a campaign that spent over $1 billion only to have the incumbent president behind in the polls.

Stepien had been deputy campaign manager before he moved up to the top job on July 15 — the day before his firm received $10,000 rather than the $15,000 it had been getting monthly since December 2018, according to a HuffPost review of Federal Election Commission filings.

Neither Stepien nor others in the Trump campaign responded to numerous queries on the matter. If $10,000 a month is, in fact, Stepien’s total new compensation, it would mean he is making far less than the communications director, the press secretary, a number of “senior advisers,” and possibly even the wife of one Trump son and the girlfriend of another.

“That’s a humiliating blow,” said Rick Wilson, a longtime Florida GOP consultant and Trump critic. “Plainly, they have big money problems and I am guessing Stepien cut his own salary as a prelude to cutting others,” said David Axelrod, the Democratic strategist behind former President Barack Obama’s successful 2008 campaign.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-campaign-stepien-pay-cut-221431364.html

[Laelth]

1. Axelrod is probably right about what's actually going on. n/t

-Laelth

[rurallib]

5. which is what?

I miss some things

[Laelth]

6. Campaign manager cut his own salary ...

... as a prelude to cutting other staffers’ salaries.

-Laelth

[rurallib]

7. Thanks - makes sense

Had the impression Parscale stole them blind. No honor among thieves my Dad used to say.

[Laelth]

8. Parscale did steal them blind.

New campaign manager is competent and doing his best to shore up the campaign’s finances—including cutting his own salary.

-Laelth

[Thekaspervote]

10. One slime ball thieves another...too too bad!!

[Takket]

2. Good. I'm glad.

[qazplm135]

3. good grief

a presidential campaign manager only making 10K a month?

That's insane.

[KentuckyWoman]

14. 10 K a month

I mean you do have to feel bad for the guy. How on earth does a person manage to survive on that in Trump world?

Some Americans live on that much a year. I love to see Mitch try it.

[qazplm135]

15. you can argue the disparity but the fact of the matter is

a campaign manager of a US presidential campaign can command a lot more than that.

The fact he's working for that much means:

1. They are broke
2. They aren't paying good money for the guy running their campaign which means he's second or third rate at best

[AmyStrange]

4. The Russians are probably picking up the difference.

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He's an an idiot anyway!!
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[Andy823]

9. Looks like trump is

cutting salaries, add buys, etc. to put more money in his own pockets, one way or another. I really think his goal now is to get all he can, funnel it somehow into his own bank accounts, and keep on "begging" his cult to send more money until he loses.

Once Biden wins, trump has to decide what comes next, does he stay and fight all the court battles coming up, or does he flee the country with all the money he has been stealing from the RNC, and the taxpayers?

[StarfishSaver]

11. That's good money in general but it's peanuts for this job

[Thekaspervote]

12. Wanna help spend their advert dollars? When you see a trump ad, on fb twitter, YouTube open it

Anywhere on the Internet open it!! Every click costs them $2-5. It also screws with their stats and data mining.

You can only click once every 24hrs or the computer algorithms catch on

Think tictok and Tulsa!!

[Roland99]

13. Maybe Parscale can sell that Ferrari

[DrToast]

16. And that sleek Range Rover

Hehe... that Lincoln Project ad did a number on the campaign.

[ooky]

17. Trumpers are notoriously stingy too.

Remember, they "don't want to pay for someone else's health care". Apparently they don't want to give money to campaigns either.

[BGBD]

18. That is absurdly low

This campaign has spent a billion bucks (on what????) and is paying the campaign manager 150k and now maybe less? Apparently they are going with the budget option because a campaign manager for a major party candidate, especially the incumbent US President, should be able to command much, much more.

That's insane. You could make more than that as digital media consultant working out of your basement and for far less demanding work.


There are only a couple of reasons for this.

Either Trump thinks that (A) he has this in the bag and didn't need to run a serious campaign to win or (B) he is trying to lose and as such isn't running a serious campaign. I feel like, either way, the idea was to raise a shit ton of money and they cut costs everywhere and funnel the money to his family and organization by doing things like hiring his kids as advisors and paying them stupid salaries.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. K&R

[AngryOldDem]

20. True to form....

When has anything financial associated with Trump ever been a success? I heard where they blew a lot of money early on on worthless shit and never really recovered. My hope is they won’t have the money for the massive ad buys in the next six weeks in the states where they need it the most. Trump’s going to have to run his fat ass ragged going to rallies.