The Trump 2024 Campaign's deputy director in New Hampshire — the second-highest position in that state's campaign — was at the Capitol riot on January 6. He tweeted complaining about a cut on his finger and said there was tear gas. (That's a WMUR report; his tweets have since been deleted. There is also video of him saying that day: “If you are a police officer and are going to abide by unconstitutional bullshit, I want you to do me a favor right now and go hang yourself, because you’re a piece of shit. Go fuck yourself." I don't know exactly what time of day it was, but there was tear gas on the West Capitol Steps at 4:20 p.m., and the video of Quattrucci seems to have been taken just after sunset. In early October 2023, within a couple months of a news report about the video, Quattrucci left his position with the Trump campaign.
For more info, see the Timeline of the January 6 United States Capitol attack on Wikipedia.
While the specific embarrassment may be fresh, his positions are not new. This video was posted to Rumble c. 2021.
According to the video description, Quattrucci has "suffered persecution" for being a Trump supporter and endorses "the Judeo-Christian and Constitutional Foundational Principles that Made America Great."
As of October 9 polling, Trump is set to win the New Hampshire primary. Source: FiveThirtyEight The Republican primary in that state is expected to be held in January 2024.
Retirees are funding the Trump campaign
Soon after Trump declared his presidential run in 2015, though he'd said he was a billionaire who didn't need political donors,
"he realized that many people were willing to give him money anyway. You can imagine a theoretical moment in which Trump was torn between his stated position about receiving donations and his having achieved his lifelong goal of having people give him money just because of his name. In reality, there was almost certainly no such moment of moral uncertainty, and by the time he won the presidency in 2016, he had fully committed himself to figuring out how to get as much money from people as possible. Even after he lost the presidency in 2020, he kept up the hustle."
— Most of Trump’s personal donations come from retirees, Analysis by Philip Bump, Washington Post, July 28, 2023
While only 7% of Trump's 2016 campaign funding came from retirees (through Sept 30, 2015), in the 2024 campaign, 56% comes from retirees (through June 30, 2023).
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