As Anthony Scaramucci loses the rag, this really is better, or worse, than any soap opera.
While his boss was seeing his latest attempt to kill off Barack Obama’s Affordable Healthcare Act fall flat on its arse, White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci was writing this tweet…
I made a mistake in trusting in a reporter. It won't happen again.
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 28, 2017
What was the reason for this? A foul-mouthed rant by Sean Spicer’s replacement to the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, in which Scaramucci threatened to fire the entire communications staff at the White House.
Lizza writes about how, on Wednesday night, he received a call from Scaramucci demanding to know who had told him about a dinner he was having with President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, former Fox News executive Bill Shine and gargoyle Sean Hannity.
“I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can’t help themselves,” Scaramucci told Lizza. “You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.”
Scaramucci was convinced that White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus was plotting against him.
“I fired one guy the other day,” he ranted. “I have three to four people I’ll fire tomorrow. I’ll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus – if you want to leak something – he’ll be asked to resign very shortly.”
“Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci – who believes Priebus blocked his appointment in January, with Spicer brought on board instead – railed, before channelling Priebus while Lizza listened on the other end of the line. “‘Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’”
Scaramucci then took aim at Trump advisor Steve Bannon, the founder of far-right website Breitbart.
“I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,” he added, insisting he has no interest in media attention.
He then set out his long-term aims as Trump’s Communications Director.
“What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the President’s agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people.”
After the conversation came to light, Scaramucci acknowledged that some of the language he used was ‘colourful’ but that was as far as he was prepared to go.
I sometimes use colorful language. I will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for @realDonaldTrump's agenda. #MAGA
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 27, 2017
