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Scaramucci Predicts Trump Will Be Forced Out

October 23, 2019 at 9:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Anthony Scaramucci predicted to Vanity Fair that President Trump “will be out of office before the next election.”

Said Scaramucci: “In the next three to six weeks, there will be more damning information related to the president… He’s aware of it. I believe that McConnell will eventually go to him and say, ‘Hey, man. You’ve gotta take one for the team… you’ve gotta go back.’ He’ll probably end up back at Mar-a-Lago or something.”

He added: “We’ll eventually uncover that something happened between him and the president of Turkey to have him disavow the Kurds the way he did. I believe there’s a personal transaction embedded there as well.. I do believe he’s cornered now, and as the facts unfold, they’re so overwhelming in their criminality that he’ll be out of office.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci Putting Together Coalition to Stop Trump

August 19, 2019 at 8:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Anthony Scaramucci told CNN that he is putting together a coalition of former Trump Cabinet officials to denounce the President ahead of the 2020 election.

Said Scaramucci: “I’m in the process of putting together a team of people that feel the exact same way that I do. This is not a ‘Never Trump’ situation. This not just screeching rhetoric. This is — OK, the guy is unstable. Everyone inside knows it, everyone outside knows it. Let’s see if we can find a viable alternative.”

He added: “Moreover, I have to get some former Cabinet officials in unity to speak up about it. They know it’s a crisis.”

Scaramucci did not provide any names of people associated with the coalition he said he is assembling, but predicted that by “middle to late fall” there will be a “trove” of people willing to speak out against Trump.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Bonus Quote of the Day

August 16, 2019 at 11:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I’m not calling him Small Hands or saying he’s got a small penis. I’m not doing any of that.”

— Anthony Scaramucci, in a Vanity Fair interview.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci Won’t Support Trump If Racism Continues

July 18, 2019 at 11:12 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told CNN that he would no longer support President Trump if his attacks on four freshman congresswomen continued, dubbing his former boss’s remarks “racist and unacceptable.”

Said Scaramucci: “They won last time, so it may be a winning campaign strategy, but it is against the idealistic values of America.”

He added: “It’s such a turnoff to a large group of people that you are running a risk that 15 percent of the people that you want to get you through that electoral map and back into the presidency say, ‘You know what? I love the policies, but I don’t like the ‘send her back’ rhetoric. I don’t like the racist rhetoric of sending people back to the homes that they came from.'”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci Disinvited from GOP Fundraiser

July 18, 2019 at 9:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Palm Beach County GOP disinvited Anthony Scaramucci from addressing its annual fundraising event after the short-lived former White House spokesman criticized President Trump’s ‘racially charged’ statement that four members of Congress who are women of color should leave the United States,” Politico reports.

Filed Under: Republicans Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci Says Trump Is Turning Into a Racist

July 16, 2019 at 11:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said that President Trump could be “turning into” a racist, Politico reports.

Said Scaramucci: “I don’t think the president is a racist. But here’s the thing, if you continue to say and act in that manner, then we all have to look at him and say, OK, well, maybe you weren’t a racist, but now you’re turning into one.”

Filed Under: Race, White House Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci Calls Ivanka’s Use of Email ‘Hypocritical’

November 20, 2018 at 8:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told CNN that it was “hypocritical” for Ivanka Trump to send hundreds of emails related to government business using a personal account.

Said Scaramucci: “I think it’ll be a great campaign talking point for Democrats to bring up the fact that she did do it. Certainly I think it’s hypocritical.”

He added: “I think Ivanka, if interviewed about it, she’d have to say that it was a mistake. You can’t do that in that position.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci, Ivanka Trump

Scaramucci Backs Off Calling Trump a Liar

October 25, 2018 at 2:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Anthony Scaramucci made headlines Wednesday when he called President Trump “a liar” during a CNN interview, the Washington Post reports.

Today, as he continued a media blitz promoting a new book about Trump, Scaramucci sought to backpedal. No, he said, Trump is not “a liar.” He’s “an intentional liar” who uses “a methodology of mistruth” with the aim of unsettling the mainstream media and the political left.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci Says Trump Is a Liar

October 24, 2018 at 9:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told CNN that President Trump “is a liar” and that he “should probably dial down the lying.”

Said Scaramucci: “OK, well we both know that he’s telling lies. So if you want me to say he’s a liar, I’m happy to say he’s a liar.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci Trashes Trump Aides In New Book

October 11, 2018 at 6:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Guardian: “In a new book, short-lived White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci escalates multiple long-running battles with erstwhile Washington colleagues while chiseling a heroic likeness of Donald Trump with inside tales of the president’s secret wisdom and wit.”

“The list of characters Scaramucci trashes anew includes current chief of staff John Kelly, former chief of staff Reince Priebus and former chief strategist Steve Bannon.”

“Kelly is ‘ineffective’ and suffers from ‘personal insecurity,’ Scaramucci writes; Priebus is a rat; and Bannon is a hypocrite and a weirdo.”

Filed Under: Political Books Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Show Starring Avenatti and Scaramucci Is Being Pitched

May 17, 2018 at 2:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A television show featuring Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who is suing President Trump on behalf of a pornographic film actress, and the former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci was pitched to two cable networks in recent weeks,” the New York Times reports.

“The prominent television agent Jay Sures discussed with executives at CNN and MSNBC the concept of a program where the two men would square off.”

Filed Under: Media Buzz Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci, Michael Avenatti

Lunch with Anthony Scaramucci

April 6, 2018 at 11:22 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former White House communication director Anthony Scaramucci has set a high standard for interesting interviews, but this lunchtime exchange with Edward Luce raises the bar.

Since I am at Scaramucci’s special booth, the staff is highly attentive. “I can tell this is going to be a bloody nightmare,” Scaramucci says as he strides in. He is dressed casually in green slacks and a dark sweater. Not at all, I protest. We will have a conversation and I will write it up. “Which part of England are you from?” Scaramucci asks me. Originally from near Brighton, I reply. “Are you gay?” he asks. Somewhat thrown by the question, I start to mumble that I am not but that some of my best friends are, and . . . “I don’t give a shit,” he interrupts. “I’m just curious. There are a lot of gays in Brighton, right?” I have little chance to weigh up Brighton’s sexual demographics before he interrupts again: “That’s something I get no credit for, by the way,” he says. “I have been for equal opportunity in gay marriage for the last 12 or 13 years.”

We haven’t even ordered, but I am already losing control over the conversation.

Filed Under: Celebrities Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci Gets a Book Deal

March 15, 2018 at 5:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Anthony Scaramucci has signed a book deal for The Blue Collar President: How Trump Is Reinventing the Aspirational Working Class, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The book will be published in September.

Filed Under: Political Books Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci Attacking Kelly with Trump’s Blessing

March 6, 2018 at 7:24 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump has emboldened Anthony Scaramucci to continue attacking White House chief of staff John Kelly during his cable news appearances, CNN reports.

“In multiple television segments, Scaramucci has faulted Kelly for the ‘terrible morale’ in the West Wing, at times referring to him as ‘General Jackass’ and suggesting he apologize for his handling of the Rob Porter resignation. According to this source, the President is aware of Scaramucci’s criticisms and has not discouraged him from making them.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci, John Kelly

Scaramucci Says Getting Fired Saved His Marriage

March 6, 2018 at 3:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Anthony Scaramucci appeared on Dr. Phil with his wife, Deidre, and admitted that being fired as White House communications director is what saved his marriage.

Said Scaramucci: “I was neglectful, fighting with my wife. My children felt neglected. But once I was rejected from the White House, as painful and as humiliating as that was, it caused a major recentering of my priorities. It was an awakening for me.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci Banned from White House

March 2, 2018 at 7:53 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Anthony Scaramucci is on a list of people blocked from entering the White House without special approval, Bloomberg reports.

“A day after saying he wasn’t blocked, a White House official confirmed that Scaramucci is indeed among fired officials excluded from the campus. The acknowledgment came after the financier provided to Bloomberg News official White House correspondence that confirmed he was denied an appointment.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

Quote of the Day

March 1, 2018 at 11:12 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Does the president want to lose everyone because of General Jackass?”

— Anthony Scaramucci, quoted by Bloomberg, about White House chief of staff John Kelly and the “horrible” morale inside the White House.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci, John Kelly

Bonus Quote of the Day

February 27, 2018 at 1:07 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“He’s lost the locker room. The morale in the White House, on a scale of 1-10, is minus 15. You cannot run the White House through fear and intimidation.”

— Anthony Scaramucci, quoted by Axios, calling for the ouster of White House chief of staff John Kelly.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Anthony Scaramucci

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