Scaramucci criticizes Trump's reaction to Charlottesville violence

ABC News ^ | August 13, 2017 | Meghan Keneally

[2ndDivisionVet]

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had harsh words for President Donald Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend.

Scaramucci spoke to ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on ABC News' "This Week" today in his first television interview since his whirlwind 11-day stint in the White House.

"I wouldn't have recommended that statement," Scaramucci said of Trump's words on Saturday from Bedminster, New Jersey. "I think he would have needed to have been much harsher."

"With the moral authority of the presidency, you have to call that stuff out," Scaramucci said, referring to Trump's seeming unwillingness to condemn the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, where clashes between white nationalists and counter-protest groups forced the city to declare a state of emergency Saturday.

Scaramucci went on to criticize the influence of the website Breitbart and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, who was the executive chairman of Breitbart before joining the Trump campaign and later the administration, saying that there's "this sort of 'Bannon-bart' influence" in the White House that he thinks "is a snag on the president."(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Thank you General Kelly.

[gibsonguy]

And nice work getting this fool in there Ivanka and Jarad.

[Morpheus2009]

Makes no sense. He said it’s wrong. The critic is irrational.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’ve never read one thing about the Kushners promoting Scaramucci. Do you have a link?

[deepestsouth1]

This person was a silly joke according to the media for the week he worked in the Whitehouse why does he have any credibility now?

[Steely Tom]

What was “Trump’s reaction to the Charlottesville violence” ?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Because he’s attacking the White House.

[House Atreides]

Would this JACKASS please move on from his 15-minutes of fame! Please!

[Wayne07]

Can everyone now admit Scaramucci was a mistake, not “Trump playing 4d chess”???

[jmaroneps37]

Get lost asshole

[jmaroneps37]

Get lost asshole

[frog in a pot]

From the article:
With the moral authority of the presidency, you have to call that stuff out," Scaramucci said, referring to Trump's seeming unwillingness to condemn the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville...

For the moment am inclined to call BS.

Scaramucci may have said that, but it does not appear so from the video clip. Scaramucci easily could have been referring to the BLM's interference in what was intended to be a legitimate exercise by Americans.

[jjotto]

Mooch is another one from the Council on Foreign Relations/Goldman-Sachs pool whose goal is pushing Republicans Left.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Mooch is now going to be the go-to guy for the Ministry of Propaganda for an official Trump criticizer.

[poinq]

“I denounce the violence and hatred in the strongest terms” What term does he have stronger than strongest?

[Skywise]

huh... the paranoid, foul-mouthed twit that aired his personal laundry out to the press is criticizing Trump for his subdued statements?

Yeahh

[niteowl77]

I initially thought the Mooch was a possibly useful guy albeit with few redeeming qualities, but I rather quickly found myself thinking he was the wrong tool for the task. His excretion from the scene came as a relief.

Mr. niteowl77

[TigersEye]

This Scaramucci douche is quite the back-stabbing attention whore isn’t he?

[Robert DeLong]

From The Hill:

Perhaps nowhere, however, has their influence been more subtle, and ultimately, more effective, than in the strange case of Anthony Scaramucci. The Mooch, as he is known, came on board as the White House’s communications director 10 days ago, with the full backing of the Trump-Kushners. It was Ivanka, after all, who sat alongside her father in the Oval Office on the eve of the official announcement of the Mooch’s ascendance, even as other senior White House aides, including former press secretary Sean Spicer (who resigned immediately after his appointment), former chief of staff Reince Priebus (who blocked Scaramucci’s appointment to various White House roles for months and resigned last Friday after public, profanity-laden lashings from the Mooch), and Stephen Bannon (who, despite his dismay, still remains in the West Wing), urged against the decision.

Kushner and Ivanka’s initial support for the Mooch, the kind of guy who would later describe Bannon as an erotic gymnast and Priebus as a “schizophrenic paranoiac” in a phone conversation with a New Yorker reporter, does not ostensibly jell with the meticulous, modern Orthodox, tailored-suit-and-updo image that the Trump-Kushners project. But the Mooch and the Trump-Kushners shared two important traits: an unyielding loyalty to Trump and a burning desire to see Reince Priebus go. For months, the Mooch had been feuding with the now-former chief of staff, who had blocked him from a role in the West Wing since January. (The Mooch described their relationship as brotherly when he first took the job; less than a week later, he clarified that they were brothers like Cain and Abel, where Cain killed Abel for God’s favor.) Less publicly, Ivanka and Jared had also been diligently pushing for Priebus’s ouster, according to a White House official.

[Jeff Chandler]

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