{"id":78891,"date":"2017-07-26T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78891"},"modified":"2017-07-26T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T00:00:08","slug":"scaramucci-singles-out-obamas-political-holdovers-as-white-house-leakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78891","title":{"rendered":"Scaramucci Singles Out Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Political Holdovers&#8221; As White House Leakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Having &#8216;terminated&#8217; his first White House leaker yesterday, President Trump&#8217;s newly-minted comms director has wasted no time in making many feel uncomfortable in the their roles (and rightly so).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/video.insider.foxnews.com\/v\/video-embed.html?video_id=5521941381001&amp;loc=zerohedge.com&amp;ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2017-07-26%2Fscaramucci-singles-out-obamas-political-holdovers-white-house-leakers&amp;_xcf=\" width=\"466\" height=\"263\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Fox News,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/343873-scaramucci-obama-holdovers-are-responsible-for-leaks\">The Hill reports<\/a>\u00a0that<strong>\u00a0Scaramucci said that &#8220;political holdovers&#8221; from the Obama White House &#8220;aren&#8217;t helping,&#8221; and hinted that more staff changes could be on the way<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Listen, we have to crack down on leaks on a number of different fronts,&#8221; Scaramucci told &#8220;Fox and Friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;There seems to be some holdovers, political holdovers from the Obama administration that are not helping,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0he added.<br \/>\n&#8220;I certainly have the full responsibility in the comms shop, which I do believe will be corrected shortly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scaramucci cautioned viewers to remember that it&#8217;s impossible for him to reach a point of absolutely no leaks, but pledged to clean up the White House press office.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>People are suggesting I&#8217;m going to try to get the leaks down to zero, that is absolutely impossible in Washington,<\/strong>\u00a0I&#8217;m learning a little about this town, but what I do want to have happen is people who report to me,<strong>\u00a0if there are senior people in the administration trying to get them to leak information on each other, we&#8217;re getting that to stop right now.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, Mooch The Merciless told Fox:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>D.C. is the kind of town where people are &#8220;very nice to your face,&#8221; but then stab you in the back.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m more of a front-stabbing person,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that is just what The White House needs.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-07-26\/scaramucci-singles-out-obamas-political-holdovers-white-house-leakers\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-07-26\/scaramucci-singles-out-obamas-political-holdovers-white-house-leakers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}