The same morning that Anthony Scaramucci is appointed as White House Communications Director, Sean Spicer resigns. Reports are that he vehemently opposed Scaramucci’s appointment.
Trump offered Scaramucci the job at 10 a.m. Trump requested that Spicer stay on, but Spicer told Trump that he believed the appointment was a major mistake, according to a person with direct knowledge of the exchange.
Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus and top adviser Steve Bannon had also resisted the appointment, according to NBC.
“This was a murdering of Reince and Bannon. They said Anthony would get this job over their dead bodies,” said one top White House official.
This….
Source close to WH: (POTUS) “expecting Spicer to serve as press sec and quasi comms director while Scaramucci would play a ceremonial role.” https://t.co/m4WluDRdjP
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 21, 2017
But Scaramucci is said to be very close to the Trump family and that Trump likes him.
Anthony Scaramucci rose through the financial ranks of New York, ardently defending Wall Street and founding a global hedge fund.
A Goldman Sachs alum, and named Wall Streeter of the Year by Yahoo Finance in 2016, Scaramucci founded and co-managed SkyBridge Capital, a fund of hedge funds with a reported $11.8 billion in assets. Skybridge may or may not have violated Russian sanctions.
Scaramucci made headlines in 2010 when he asked Obama during a televised town hall meeting when he was going to “stop whacking at the Wall Street piñata.”
The fact that Scaramucci was appointed over the objections of Priebus, Bannon AND Spicer just shows how difficult managing Trump has been. Spicer’s defection, coming on the heels of defections by the spokesman for Trump’s legal team (as well as Trump’s longtime lawyer from that team) shows that there are definitely HUGE rifts in the administration.
He wasn’t always a Trump fan:
He supporter Walker initially in 2016, but became a Trump supporter eventually.
Spicer is over.
SPICEY IS OUT.
IN MEMORIAM.
HOW WE’LL REMEMBER HIM. pic.twitter.com/foLhncQOPX— James West (@jameswest2010) July 21, 2017
UPDATE — Jesus Christ, read this:
Source close to WH: (POTUS) “expecting Spicer to serve as press sec and quasi comms director while Scaramucci would play a ceremonial role.” https://t.co/m4WluDRdjP
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 21, 2017
UPDATE #2 — Interesting tweets from Scaramucci
We (the USA) has 5% of the world’s population but 50% of the world’s guns. Enough is enough. It is just common sense it apply more controls
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) August 6, 2012
You can take steps to combat climate change without crippling the economy. The fact many people still believe CC is a hoax is disheartening
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) March 11, 2016