{"id":79109,"date":"2017-07-28T08:39:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T12:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=79109"},"modified":"2017-07-28T08:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T12:39:59","slug":"scaramucci-assails-priebus-bannon-in-profanity-laced-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=79109","title":{"rendered":"Scaramucci Assails Priebus, Bannon in Profanity-Laced Tirade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci assailed rivals Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon, two top aides to President Donald Trump, in a profane tirade that is sure to inflame a running and very public feud among top White House officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll all be fired by me,\u201d Scaramucci said,\u00a0according to New Yorker writer, Ryan Lizza, who said the communications director<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— not even a week in his new job — had called him late Wednesday. The reason for the call was to complain about a Lizza tweet that revealed Trump\u2019s dinner that night with Scaramucci, Fox News host Sean Hannity and a former Fox executive.<\/p>\n

Scaramucci, who has made ferreting out leakers his top priority since being named to the position, demanded Lizza identify his source. Lizza said he declined to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I\u2019ll fire tomorrow. I\u2019ll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus \u2014 if you want to leak something \u2014 he\u2019ll be asked to resign very shortly,\u201d Scaramucci said. \u201cReince is a f—— paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the interview, he also attacked Trump\u2019s chief strategist, Bannon, who he said sought media attention at the president\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not Steve Bannon,\u201d Scaramucci told Lizza, using a vulgar expression to indicate the senior adviser to the president was only interested in pleasing himself. \u201cI\u2019m not trying to build my own brand\u201d off the president. \u201cI\u2019m here to serve the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lizza said Scaramucci never asked to be off the record and that Priebus and Bannon both declined to comment about the remarks. None of the White House officials immediately responded to requests for comment from Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

But on Thursday night, two hours after the article was published, Scaramucci did respond via Twitter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The New Yorker report was the latest episode in a White House drama that exploded into a public spectacle on Thursday.\u00a0It laid bare a power struggle among factions within an administration besieged by multiple investigations and stalled on its agenda.<\/p>\n

The remarks from Scaramucci, a Trump loyalist, create a public face-off with Priebus, who holds a job that in any other White House would be one of the most powerful in Washington. It also comes as Trump has been berating his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, in public statements and on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Earlier Thursday, Scaramucci undermined Priebus during a live, 30-minute interview on CNN, suggesting the White House chief of staff was behind some of the leaks that have sparked turmoil in the White House and anger from Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Reince wants to explain that he\u2019s not a leaker, let him do that,\u201d Scaramucci told CNN during a half-hour live phone interview. \u201cI\u2019m a straight shooter. I\u2019ll go right to the heart of the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scaramucci said there is an establishment element inside the White House that is trying\u00a0\u201cto save America from this president\u201d and is interfering with the full changes Trump is trying to make\u00a0to \u201ctransform\u201d the nation and \u201cdrain the swamp.\u201d<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t name who he thinks is among that element, but Priebus is a longtime party figure who was Republican National Committee chairman before joining a Trump team dominated by outsiders.<\/p>\n

Trump changed the communications director job he gave Scaramucci to directly report to the president, bypassing Priebus and setting up a potential rivalry among two men who have had a sometimes-tempestuous relationship in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had odds, we have had differences,\u201d Scaramucci said of Priebus during the course of the CNN interview. \u201cSome brothers are like Cain and Abel\u201d while others can get along, he said. He also suggested that Trump himself knows the contours of some of the internal leaks.<\/p>\n

The focus on leaks offers Trump an opportunity to turn public attention from congressional and special counsel probes of Russian meddling in the U.S. election and whether the president\u2019s campaign had any involvement. But the White House infighting also has unsettled many fellow Republicans in Congress as efforts to pass health care and tax legislation are struggling.<\/p>\n

Senator John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, told CNN after the Scaramucci interview that while some public spats are inevitable in every presidential administration “in this White House it\u2019s out of control.”<\/p>\n

“You don\u2019t have to comment on everything,” he said. “I wouldn\u2019t do it.”<\/p>\n

Scaramucci: Trump May Veto Russia Sanctions, Push \u2018Tougher Deal\u2019<\/p>\n

After Scaramucci\u2019s Wednesday night conversation with Lizza he took to Twitter with accusations that he was the victim of an illegal leak of his financial information.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept,\u201d Scaramucci said on Twitter Wednesday night, tagging Priebus\u2019 Twitter handle in a way that suggested he was calling out Priebus as a leaker — an assertion Scaramucci later denied he was trying to make.<\/p>\n

The tweet followed a Politico report that the SkyBridge Capital founder had a net worth of as much as $85 million, citing a financial disclosure dated June 23 that he filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t clear that there was a leak. Lorraine Woellert, Politico\u2019s reporter on the story, said on Twitter she requested the financial disclosure form through normal channels and was provided it by the Export-Import Bank. The documents are supposed to be available to any member of the public within 30 days of being certified by the employing agency, in this case the bank. Scaramucci deleted his Twitter message on the leak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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