Anthony Scaramucci, the man who holds the title for shortest stint as White House Communications Director, is inserting himself into the latest drama at the Trump White House by blasting General John Kelly – the man who fired him. Now he is worrying his reckless behavior will have financial implications.
After discussing the resignation of Hope Hicks and telling CNN Thursday morning there is a “culture of fear” inside the Trump White House, warning morale under John Kelly is “terrible,” Scaramucci spoke with Bloomberg News to continue his war against the Chief of Staff.
“Does the president want to lose everyone because of General Jackass?” Scaramucci asked Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs.
“Scarmucci denied he was backstabbing Kelly — and he told Jacobs that he was proudly ‘front-stabbing’ him,” as Raw Story reports.
But Scaramucci apparently is having second thoughts about just how wise it was to tangle with the retired general.
“Scaramucci says he now fears Kelly will thwart his bid to sell his stake in SkyBridge Capital to China’s HNA Group Co,” Jacobs reports at Bloomberg. “The sale has been stuck at the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which reviews foreign acquisitions of domestic businesses for security risks.”
“Let’s see what he says about that,” Scaramucci told her. “That’ll be the next food fight.
Scaramucci served 11 days (at most) in Trump’s White House. Kelly fired him after Scaramucci launched into an on-the-record vulgar tirade with a reporter, calling then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus “a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac.” Scaramucci also falsely accused Priebus of a “felony” – the leaking of his financial disclosure form (which is publicly available).
He also infamously told the reporter, Ryan Lizza, “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own c*ck.”