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Post by Admin on Aug 19, 2019 17:51:18 GMT
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said on Monday that he’s assembling a team of former Cabinet members to speak out against President Trump in an effort to find a Republican challenger to the president in 2020. “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 is not just screeching rhetoric. This is, 'OK, the guy's unstable, everyone inside knows it, everyone outside knows it, let’s see if we can find a viable alternative,'” Scaramucci said Monday on CNN’s “New Day.” “Moreover, I’ve got to get some of these former Cabinet officials in unity to speak up about it.” Scaramucci would not reveal names of former officials that he said feel that Trump is unstable. But he said he expects more to come out publicly in upcoming months. “I predict in middle or late fall there will be a trove of people that will come together in unity to say this is what’s going on. This is how the person’s acting. This is why there’s nobody inside the White House he’s taking any advice from,” Scaramucci said. He also did not disclose names of possible candidates he’s looking to back along with the team he’s looking to assemble.
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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2019 18:00:32 GMT
As President Donald Trump’s feud with Anthony Scaramucci stretches past the flicker of time he served in the White House, the president’s supporters have been taking their own whacks at the man who has become Public Enemy No. 1. And Trump has been been grateful, reaching out to “give attaboys” to allies who have attacked his former communications director, according to a person close to the White House. The schoolyard drama surrounding Scaramucci offers a revealing look inside how Trump’s wider orbit works — a daily scrum for his attention and affection. As one former senior White House official described it, the Twitter-powered opprobrium the president has directed at his onetime aide — along with his private praise of others’ follow-on attacks — amounts to clear instructions for people around Trump to fire at will at Scaramucci. “He takes extra pleasure in seeing people tee off on Anthony,” the person close to the White House said. “The signal was very clear when he started tweeting about it mercilessly. There’s a reason that the pile-on continues.”
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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2019 23:23:07 GMT
Scaramucci, the short-lived White House communications director who recently withdrew his support for President Donald Trump, revealed he is forming a political action committee (PAC) to run advertisements against his former boss.
Scaramucci, who was fired in July 2017 after just 11 days on the job, argued in an interview that he can siphon enough support away from the president to deny him a second term in the White House next year.
"It's going to be 'The Committee to Dismantle Trump,' but I'll come up with a much cleverer thing than that," the financier said of his PAC on the "Hacks on Tap" podcast. "I'm going to throw my own dough in there, ask others to put their dough in there and we're going to explain to people what he's doing."
Scaramucci claimed that he can woo a small but not insignificant portion of Trump's supporters, grabbing "ahold of 5, 6, 8 percent of the people that know he's nuts and possibly move them."
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