Donald Trump may think otherwise, but if a man can’t be trusted with his own children, one has to wonder why Pennsylvania voters would trust him with their vote. As reported by Kate Riga for TalkingPointsMemo:
Shortly after the court’s findings were made public, Parnell announced he was dropping his Senate bid, according to The Washington Post. Parnell had been considered the leader of the Republican field in the race to replace outgoing Republican Sen. Pat Toomey. (On the Democratic side, current Lt. Governor John Fetterman and Pennsylvania Rep. Conor Lamb are among the hopefuls.) Parnell’s departure opens up the Republican field to a host of lesser-known candidates, as well as the potential entry of Fox News “personality” Dr. Mehmet Oz.
The four-year custody dispute between Parnell—who Donald Trump heartily endorsed as the kind of man he’d want representing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate—and Parnell’s former wife, Laurie Snell, came to a swift end today, with a Common Pleas judge expressing a dim view of Parnell’s ability to tell the truth:
Just in case there was any doubt, the judge specifically noted: “When weighing his position against Laurie Snell’s statements of detailed facts about many incidents, Sean Parnell’s position is less believable.”
As reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, apparently some of the assertions Arner found credible were Snell’s claims that Parnell had “choked her, hit their young children and lashed out at her with obscenities and insults.”
As to the alleged slapping incident, when shown a photograph depicting his son’s bare back with fingerprint-sized welts taken shortly afterward, Parnell strenuously denied that the photograph depicted his child’s back. But apparently the court didn’t find that credible either.
As pointed out by Riga, Parnell was merely “one of multiple Republican Senate candidates accused of violence or making threats this cycle, a list that also includes Herschel Walker in Georgia and Former Gov. Eric Greitens in Missouri.” With a record of assault, abuse, and misogynistic declarations, all now seemingly established, Parnell had endeared himself to a Republican Party that has for the past five years sought to align itself as closely as possible to the values of Donald Trump.
Shortly after the court’s findings were made public, Parnell announced he was dropping his Senate bid, according to The Washington Post. Parnell had been considered the leader of the Republican field in the race to replace outgoing Republican Sen. Pat Toomey. (On the Democratic side, current Lt. Governor John Fetterman and Pennsylvania Rep. Conor Lamb are among the hopefuls.) Parnell’s departure opens up the Republican field to a host of lesser-known candidates, as well as the potential entry of Fox News “personality” Dr. Mehmet Oz.
The four-year custody dispute between Parnell—who Donald Trump heartily endorsed as the kind of man he’d want representing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate—and Parnell’s former wife, Laurie Snell, came to a swift end today, with a Common Pleas judge expressing a dim view of Parnell’s ability to tell the truth:
Just in case there was any doubt, the judge specifically noted: “When weighing his position against Laurie Snell’s statements of detailed facts about many incidents, Sean Parnell’s position is less believable.”
As reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, apparently some of the assertions Arner found credible were Snell’s claims that Parnell had “choked her, hit their young children and lashed out at her with obscenities and insults.”
As to the alleged slapping incident, when shown a photograph depicting his son’s bare back with fingerprint-sized welts taken shortly afterward, Parnell strenuously denied that the photograph depicted his child’s back. But apparently the court didn’t find that credible either.
As pointed out by Riga, Parnell was merely “one of multiple Republican Senate candidates accused of violence or making threats this cycle, a list that also includes Herschel Walker in Georgia and Former Gov. Eric Greitens in Missouri.” With a record of assault, abuse, and misogynistic declarations, all now seemingly established, Parnell had endeared himself to a Republican Party that has for the past five years sought to align itself as closely as possible to the values of Donald Trump.