CloudCommerce, a company with a close relationship with Donald Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale, received $780,680 from the Paycheck Protection Program, part of the federal government’s effort to protect small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the company’s executives having been sued for or pled guilty to fraud charges, Parscale nevertheless engineered a financial relationship with the outfit that left him owning a significant portion of its stock. Parscale’s partnership with CloudCommerce has been puzzling to financial experts. When Parscale was plucked from obscurity to run Trump’s 2016 digital operation, he was the joint owner of a marketing firm in San Antonio.