Tag: Anthony Scaramucci

Ex-White House communications director is on a mission to stop Trump: ‘Something’s wrong with him mentally’

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“I’m out there trying to educate as many people as possible at the systemic danger that Mr. Trump represents to our democracy.” Those were part of the opening words of my conversation earlier this week with former Trump White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on “Salon Talks.” And it went downhill from there for Trump.

I can’t recall another presidential election where as many former officials from a White House administration and members of the president’s own political party came out so vocally to defeat that very president. But then again, nothing has been normal in the time of Trump.

In our conversation, Scaramucci, a successful Wall Street investor, shared why he turned on Trump, citing events such as Trump’s family separation policy and, finally, when Trump led the “Send her back” bigoted smear of the four Democratic female members of Congress known as “The Squad,” saying they should go back to their own countries. As Scaramucci noted, this vile line of attack by Trump was personal for him; his own Italian grandparents heard the same hateful nativist comments when they first came to America. Continue reading.

Michael Cohen’s Book Will Bare Trump’s ‘Steep Illegality,’ Vows Anthony Scaramucci

It’s all going to “come out in a waterfall” ahead of the election, said Trump’s short-time director of communications.

The soon-to-be-published book by President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, will reveal multiple cases of criminality, backed by “evidence,” longtime Trump associate Anthony Scaramucci said Saturday. 

Scaramucci, who served as White House director of communications for a week in 2017, said on MSNBC that Cohen’s book will expose Trump’s “rank criminality” and “steep, steep illegality and amorality.”

“It is not like Michael is going to say this and the White House is going to discredit him … He is going to back it up with documentary evidence to show the level of illegality, the repetitiveness of the illegality,” said Scaramucci. Continue reading.

Touched A Nerve? Trump Flips Out After Anthony Scaramucci Delivers Warning On Fox News

The former White House communications director said the GOP could become “a minority party for a generation” because of Trump.

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired by President Donald Trump after just 10 days on the job in 2017, delivered a warning to Republicans on Fox News on Sunday night. And Trump was not happy about it, kicking off a Twitter feud between the two ex-allies.

The fireworks began when Scaramucci appeared on Steve Hilton’s show “The Next Revolution” to rip into Trump’s presidency for an “upside-down” economy and politicizing the coronavirus pandemic.

Then, he warned that the Republican Party under Trump was shrinking its own base ― and that would have repercussions for years to come. Continue reading.

‘Donald Trump is the virus’: Former WH communications chief says the president is ‘very insane’

AlterNet logoFormer White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci is blasting President Donald Trump, likening his former boss to the coronavirus.

“Donald Trump is the virus,” Scaramucci said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday.

“At the end of the day what he has done is, he’s effected and replicated through the executive branch and he’s destroyed the crisis management elements of the executive branch that we need right now, not only here in the United States, but globally.” Continue reading.

Scaramucci Says Ukraine Texts Show ‘Rank Criminality’

Appearing on CNN’s “New Day” with host Alisyn Camerota, former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci called the release of State Department texts that show a clear pattern of trading aid for help in digging up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden an example of the “rank criminality’ at the heart of Donald Trump’s White House.

Speaking with the CNN host the morning after devastating State Department texts were released showing officials working to help the president with political considerations while using foreign aid to Ukraine as bait, Scaramucci said the revelation is devastating for the embattled White House.

After the CNN host read a selection from the texts, she asked the former Trump confidant what they sounded like to him.

“I hear rank criminality,” he shot back. “I hear pressure on American diplomats coming from above to push them to do things that are actually a revocation of the Constitution. And so the president will — his defense will be he can’t control those guys, he’ll say all that sort of nonsense.”

View the complete October 4 article by Tom Boggioni from AlterNet on the National Memo website here.

Trump is ‘having a full-blown mental breakdown’ and needs to resign: Trump ex-staffer

AlterNet logoLeading Republican elected officials should work with President Donald Trump’s family to negotiate him resigning from office, a former top White House official suggested on MSNBC on Friday.

Former White House press secretary Anthony Scaramucci blasted his former boss during an interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press Daily.”

“He has totally and completely lost it. There is nobody that can look at the situation, read the tweets, look at the press sprays, and say he hasn’t lost it,” Scaramucci argued.

View the complete August 24 article by Bob Brigham on the AlterNet website here.

Power Up: Trump and the Mooch take their feud to eleven

Washington Post logoMOOCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING: Leave it to Anthony Scaramucci to milk a news cycle for almost as long as his short-lived tenure at the White House.

Continuing his surprising evolution from reliable surrogate to anti-Trump truth teller, Scaramucci announced he was assembling a coalition of former Trump Cabinet officials to speak out against the president ahead of the 2020 election — a cable news sound bite that, yet again, set off the president. He says he’s assembling a coalition of people like him to seek a GOP alternative to Trump in the primary.

  • In an op-ed in today’s Post, Scaramucci restated what might now be obvious to all watching: He won’t support Trump for reelection.
  • “I broke from Trump because not only has his behavior become more erratic and his rhetoric more inflammatory, but also because, like all demagogues, he is incapable of handling constructive criticism,” Scaramucci wrote. “As we lie on the bed of nails Trump has made, it’s often difficult to see how much the paradigm of acceptable conduct has shifted. For the Republican Party, it’s now a question of whether we want to start cleaning up the mess or continue papering over the cracks.”
  • As for the attacks that Trump unleashed on his former ally throughout the day and late into the night on Twitter, Scaramucci told Power Up it’s “because he knows I’m right.”
  • “He can feel his support eroding. He can feel himself losing control. He knows he’s unhinged but can’t help himself. He’s also trying to make an example out of me so nobody else speaks out,” the Mooch told us.

View the complete August 20 article by Jacqueline Alemany on The Washington Post website here.

The ‘Mooch’ Dumps On Trump In Scorching Vanity Fair Interview

While President Donald Trump continues to have many cheerleaders on the right — from Attorney General William Barr to Sen. Lindsey Graham to Fox News’ Sean Hannity — some former champions of Trump have turned into adversaries. One conservative who recently went from Trump defender to Trump foe is former White House Communications Chief Anthony Scaramucci, who doesn’t hesitate to express his disdain for the president in a candid Q&A interview with Vanity Fair’s William D. Cohan.

Asked why he finally turned against the president after being such a vehement defender in the past, Scaramucci told Vanity Fair that he grew fed up with the president’s overwhelming narcissism.

“The red line was the racism — full-blown racism,” Scaramucci asserts. “He can say that he’s not a racist, and I agree with him, OK? And let me explain to you why he’s not a racist, ’cause this is very important. He’s actually worse than a racist. He is so narcissistic, he doesn’t see people as people. He sees them as objects in his field of vision. And so therefore, that’s why he has no empathy.”

View the complete August 18 article by Alex Henderson from AlterNet on the National Memo website here.

Scaramucci breaks up with Trump in now-familiar pattern

The Hill logoFormer White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has broken forcefully with President Trump, engaging in a Twitter feud with his former boss and suggesting Republicans should consider a change to the top of their ticket ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

It’s a remarkable divorce between Trump and an associate who was once one of his foremost public allies, but follows a familiar pattern of former aides stoking the anger of a president who puts a premium on loyalty.

“[Trump] requires loyalty, but it’s a one-way street,” said Omarosa Manigault Newman, one former White House aide who has become a critic of the president. “It’s not a two-way street. So he wants the people around him to be loyal to him, but he does not extend the same loyalty to others.”

View the complete August 12 article by Brett Samuels on The Hill website here.

Anthony Scaramucci removed as White House communications director

The following article by Abby Phillips and Damian Paletta was posted on the Washington Post website July 31, 2017:

Leaks, threats and insults. And it lasted less than two weeks. Here’s a look back at the very short tenure of the White House’s latest communications director, Anthony Scaramucci. (Video: Claritza Jimenez, Meg Kelly/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

President Trump on Monday removed Anthony Scaramucci from his role as White House communications director just days after the New York financier was named to the job — a move made at the request of new White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.

Scaramucci’s brief tenure in the role had been marked by turmoil as he feuded publicly with then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. Scaramucci’s arrival at the White House prompted press secretary Sean Spicer to resign in protest. Continue reading “Anthony Scaramucci removed as White House communications director”