There are those who consider Anthony Scaramucci’s epiphany about Donald Trump just too little, too late when it comes to mitigating the harm that Trump does in his daily missives against literally anyone who pisses him off even a little bit.
That’s fine, I totally understand that — The Mooch was actually a Democrat long before he worked for Trump, so it’s not like he didn’t know anything about the opposition party. But that almost argues for a scenario in which Scaramucci was seduced to the Trump camp by a charisma that is unseen to most of us but works on others like a reeded flute to a cobra.
I personally would like to believe that is a thing that exists, because it gives cover to so many more Trumpers who may leave his flock and want to claim asylum with the left after some harsh words have been exchanged, and I for one want to welcome them no matter how long it took them to arrive.
Trump, however, has not taken kindly to his former Communications Director’s defection from the dark side. As he does with most people who criticize him, Trump has dismissed Scaramucci as a nothing, a nobody, not to be taken seriously — although all of that rhetoric is belied by the fact that, uh, Trump is still talking about him. And on Monday, Trump hit below the belt.
Anthony Scaramucci is a highly unstable “nut job” who was with other candidates in the primary who got shellacked, & then unfortunately wheedled his way into my campaign. I barely knew him until his 11 days of gross incompetence-made a fool of himself, bad on TV. Abused staff,…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2019
….got fired. Wrote a very nice book about me just recently. Now the book is a lie? Said his wife was driving him crazy, “something big” was happening with her. Getting divorced. He was a mental wreck. We didn’t want him around. Now Fake News puts him on like he was my buddy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2019
Whatever you think of Twitter spats, dragging someone’s wife into the dispute, the messy personal details of his life, that should be out of bounds. And Scaramucci, who recently revealed on cable news that there was a group of current officials inside the West Wing planning a mass defection, struck back:
Adding to that he is attacking my wife who is a civilian a private citizen, a mom of 2 young children. He is despicable and will be rooted out of the system before his Orange cancer metatasizes. @realDonaldTrump a COWARD who goes after suburban housewives and their children https://t.co/wYD6nvERuH
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) August 20, 2019
Trump doesn’t fight fair, and Anthony knows it. But that’s not stopping him from at least fighting BACK.
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