Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon
He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. It escalated from there.
Ryan LizzaJuly 27, 2017 4:52 PM
n Wednesday night, I received a phone call from Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director. He wasn’t happy. Earlier in the night, I’d tweeted, citing a “senior White House official,” that Scaramucci was having dinner at the White House with President Trump, the First Lady, Sean Hannity, and the former Fox News executive Bill Shine. It was an interesting group, and raised some questions. Was Trump getting strategic advice from Hannity? Was he considering hiring Shine? But Scaramucci had his own question—for me.
“Who leaked that to you?” he asked. I said I couldn’t give him that information. He responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. “What I’m going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we’ll start over,” he said. I laughed, not sure if he really believed that such a threat would convince a journalist to reveal a source. He continued to press me and complain about the staff he’s inherited in his new job. “I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can’t help themselves,” he said. “You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.”
In Scaramucci’s view, the fact that word of the dinner had reached a reporter was evidence that his rivals in the West Wing, particularly Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, were plotting against him. While they have publicly maintained that there is no bad blood between them, Scaramucci and Priebus have been feuding for months. After the election, Trump asked Scaramucci to join his Administration, and Scaramucci sold his company, SkyBridge Capital, in anticipation of taking on a senior role. But Priebus didn’t want him in the White House, and successfully blocked him for being appointed to a job until last week, when Trump offered him the communications job over Priebus’s vehement objections. In response to Scaramucci’s appointment, Sean Spicer, an ally of Priebus’s, resigned his position as press secretary. And in an additional slight to Priebus, the White House’s official announcement of Scaramucci’s hiring noted that he would report directly to the President, rather than to the chief of staff.
Scaramucci’s first public appearance as communications director was a slick and conciliatory performance at the lectern in the White House briefing room last Friday. He suggested it was time for the White House to turn a page. But since then, he has become obsessed with leaks and threatened to fire staffers if he discovers that they have given unauthorized information to reporters. Michael Short, a White House press aide considered close to Priebus, resigned on Tuesday after Scaramucci publicly spoke about firing him. Meanwhile, several damaging stories about Scaramucci have appeared in the press, and he blamed Priebus for most of them. Now, he wanted to know whom I had been talking to about his dinner with the President. Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.
“Is it an assistant to the President?” he asked. I again told him I couldn’t say. “O.K., I’m going to fire every one of them, and then you haven’t protected anybody, so the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks.”
I asked him why it was so important for the dinner to be kept a secret. Surely, I said, it would become public at some point. “I’ve asked people not to leak things for a period of time and give me a honeymoon period,” he said. “They won’t do it.” He was getting more and more worked up, and he eventually convinced himself that Priebus was my source.
“They’ll all be fired by me,” he said. “I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I’ll fire tomorrow. I’ll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he’ll be asked to resign very shortly.” The issue, he said, was that he believed Priebus had been worried about the dinner because he hadn’t been invited. “Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci said. He channelled Priebus as he spoke: “ ‘Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’ ” (Priebus did not respond to a request for comment.)
Scaramucci was particularly incensed by a Politico report about his financial-disclosure form, which he viewed as an illegal act of retaliation by Priebus. The reporter said Thursday morning that the document was publicly available and she had obtained it from the Export-Import Bank. Scaramucci didn’t know this at the time, and he insisted to me that Priebus had leaked the document, and that the act was “a felony.”
“I’ve called the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice,” he told me.
“Are you serious?” I asked.
“The swamp will not defeat him,” he said, breaking into the third person. “They’re trying to resist me, but it’s not going to work. I’ve done nothing wrong on my financial disclosures, so they’re going to have to go fuck themselves.”
Scaramucci also told me that, unlike other senior officials, he had no interest in media attention. “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,” he said, speaking of Trump’s chief strategist. “I’m not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President. I’m here to serve the country.” (Bannon declined to comment.)
He reiterated that Priebus would resign soon, and he noted that he told Trump that he expected Priebus to launch a campaign against him. “He didn’t get the hint that I was reporting directly to the President,” he said. “And I said to the President here are the four or five things that he will do to me.” His list of allegations included leaking the Hannity dinner and the details from his financial-disclosure form.
I got the sense that Scaramucci’s campaign against leakers flows from his intense loyalty to Trump. Unlike other Trump advisers, I’ve never heard him say a bad word about the President. “What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the President’s agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people,” he told me.
He cryptically suggested that he had more information about White House aides. “O.K., the Mooch showed up a week ago,” he said. “This is going to get cleaned up very shortly, O.K.? Because I nailed these guys. I’ve got digital fingerprints on everything they’ve done through the F.B.I. and the fucking Department of Justice.”
“What?” I interjected.
“Well, the felony, they’re gonna get prosecuted, probably, for the felony.” He added, “The lie detector starts—” but then he changed the subject and returned to what he thought was the illegal leak of his financial-disclosure forms. I asked if the President knew all of this.
“Well, he doesn’t know the extent of all that, he knows about some of that, but he’ll know about the rest of it first thing tomorrow morning when I see him.”
Scaramucci said he had to get going. “Yeah, let me go, though, because I’ve gotta start tweeting some shit to make this guy crazy.”
Minutes later, he tweeted, “In light of the leak of my financial info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45.” With the addition of Priebus’s Twitter handle, he was making public what he had just told me: that he believed Priebus was leaking information about him. The tweet quickly went viral.
Scaramucci seemed to have second thoughts. Within two hours he deleted the original tweet and posted a new one denying that he was targeting the chief of staff. “Wrong!” he said, adding a screenshot of an Axios article that said, “Scaramucci appears to want Priebus investigated by FBI.” Scaramucci continued, “Tweet was public notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks. @Reince45.”
A few hours later, I appeared on CNN to discuss the overnight drama. As I was talking about Scaramucci, he called into the show himself and referenced our conversation. He changed his story about Priebus. Instead of saying that he was trying to expose Priebus as a leaker, he said that the reason he mentioned Priebus in his deleted tweet was because he wanted to work together with Priebus to discover the leakers.
“He’s the chief of staff, he’s responsible for understanding and uncovering and helping me do that inside the White House, which is why I put that tweet out last night,” Scaramucci said, after noting that he had talked to me Wednesday night. He then made an argument that journalists were assuming that he was accusing Priebus because they know Priebus leaks to the press.
“When I put out a tweet, and I put Reince’s name in the tweet,” he said, “they’re all making the assumption that it’s him because journalists know who the leakers are. So, if Reince wants to explain that he’s not a leaker, let him do that.”
Scaramucci then made a plea to viewers. “Let me tell you something about myself,” he said. “I am a straight shooter.”
This is way out of bounds, but it is not surprising in this group of amateurs.
This is way out of bounds, but it is not surprising in this group of amateurs.
I know, the MSM taking an off-the -record conversation and literally transcribing it word-for word and then passing this off as some kind of breaking news.
"Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background."
Exactly... amateurs who do not even understand how to interact with the media. This is the Communications Director. The reporter will cooperate with people from the administration if they want to stay off record. That is why this idiot was so pissed off in the first place.
I guess it fits... the President has no idea how to do his job either.
This administration is a total amateur clown show. Stupid voters elect a really stupid president who hires really, really stupid staffers. Not funny.
"Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background."
Exactly... amateurs who do not even understand how to interact with the media. This is the Communications Director. The reporter will cooperate with people from the administration if they want to stay off record. That is why this idiot was so pissed off in the first place.
I guess it fits... the President has no idea how to do his job either.
This administration is a total amateur clown show. Stupid voters elect a really stupid president who hires really, really stupid staffers. Not funny.
Sounds about right.
Sad....plus the guy sounds like a stereotype NY Italian....and this coming from someone who has 100% Italian heritage...he's embarrassing to my culture..... along with just being another disgusting person like Trump....a mini me for the ages
Trumps next book should be called "The art of the @$$hole" as he is showing us on a moment to moment basis on how to apply that techinque
overnight? changing topics abrubtly? maniacal behavior? he was doing blow all night long.
Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon
He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. It escalated from there.
Ryan LizzaJuly 27, 2017 4:52 PM
n Wednesday night, I received a phone call from Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director. He wasn’t happy. Earlier in the night, I’d tweeted, citing a “senior White House official,” that Scaramucci was having dinner at the White House with President Trump, the First Lady, Sean Hannity, and the former Fox News executive Bill Shine. It was an interesting group, and raised some questions. Was Trump getting strategic advice from Hannity? Was he considering hiring Shine? But Scaramucci had his own question—for me.
“Who leaked that to you?” he asked. I said I couldn’t give him that information. He responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. “What I’m going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we’ll start over,” he said. I laughed, not sure if he really believed that such a threat would convince a journalist to reveal a source. He continued to press me and complain about the staff he’s inherited in his new job. “I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can’t help themselves,” he said. “You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.”
In Scaramucci’s view, the fact that word of the dinner had reached a reporter was evidence that his rivals in the West Wing, particularly Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, were plotting against him. While they have publicly maintained that there is no bad blood between them, Scaramucci and Priebus have been feuding for months. After the election, Trump asked Scaramucci to join his Administration, and Scaramucci sold his company, SkyBridge Capital, in anticipation of taking on a senior role. But Priebus didn’t want him in the White House, and successfully blocked him for being appointed to a job until last week, when Trump offered him the communications job over Priebus’s vehement objections. In response to Scaramucci’s appointment, Sean Spicer, an ally of Priebus’s, resigned his position as press secretary. And in an additional slight to Priebus, the White House’s official announcement of Scaramucci’s hiring noted that he would report directly to the President, rather than to the chief of staff.
Scaramucci’s first public appearance as communications director was a slick and conciliatory performance at the lectern in the White House briefing room last Friday. He suggested it was time for the White House to turn a page. But since then, he has become obsessed with leaks and threatened to fire staffers if he discovers that they have given unauthorized information to reporters. Michael Short, a White House press aide considered close to Priebus, resigned on Tuesday after Scaramucci publicly spoke about firing him. Meanwhile, several damaging stories about Scaramucci have appeared in the press, and he blamed Priebus for most of them. Now, he wanted to know whom I had been talking to about his dinner with the President. Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.
“Is it an assistant to the President?” he asked. I again told him I couldn’t say. “O.K., I’m going to fire every one of them, and then you haven’t protected anybody, so the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks.”
I asked him why it was so important for the dinner to be kept a secret. Surely, I said, it would become public at some point. “I’ve asked people not to leak things for a period of time and give me a honeymoon period,” he said. “They won’t do it.” He was getting more and more worked up, and he eventually convinced himself that Priebus was my source.
“They’ll all be fired by me,” he said. “I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I’ll fire tomorrow. I’ll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he’ll be asked to resign very shortly.” The issue, he said, was that he believed Priebus had been worried about the dinner because he hadn’t been invited. “Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci said. He channelled Priebus as he spoke: “ ‘Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’ ” (Priebus did not respond to a request for comment.)
Scaramucci was particularly incensed by a Politico report about his financial-disclosure form, which he viewed as an illegal act of retaliation by Priebus. The reporter said Thursday morning that the document was publicly available and she had obtained it from the Export-Import Bank. Scaramucci didn’t know this at the time, and he insisted to me that Priebus had leaked the document, and that the act was “a felony.”
“I’ve called the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice,” he told me.
“Are you serious?” I asked.
“The swamp will not defeat him,” he said, breaking into the third person. “They’re trying to resist me, but it’s not going to work. I’ve done nothing wrong on my financial disclosures, so they’re going to have to go fuck themselves.”
Scaramucci also told me that, unlike other senior officials, he had no interest in media attention. “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,” he said, speaking of Trump’s chief strategist. “I’m not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President. I’m here to serve the country.” (Bannon declined to comment.)
He reiterated that Priebus would resign soon, and he noted that he told Trump that he expected Priebus to launch a campaign against him. “He didn’t get the hint that I was reporting directly to the President,” he said. “And I said to the President here are the four or five things that he will do to me.” His list of allegations included leaking the Hannity dinner and the details from his financial-disclosure form.
I got the sense that Scaramucci’s campaign against leakers flows from his intense loyalty to Trump. Unlike other Trump advisers, I’ve never heard him say a bad word about the President. “What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the President’s agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people,” he told me.
He cryptically suggested that he had more information about White House aides. “O.K., the Mooch showed up a week ago,” he said. “This is going to get cleaned up very shortly, O.K.? Because I nailed these guys. I’ve got digital fingerprints on everything they’ve done through the F.B.I. and the fucking Department of Justice.”
“What?” I interjected.
“Well, the felony, they’re gonna get prosecuted, probably, for the felony.” He added, “The lie detector starts—” but then he changed the subject and returned to what he thought was the illegal leak of his financial-disclosure forms. I asked if the President knew all of this.
“Well, he doesn’t know the extent of all that, he knows about some of that, but he’ll know about the rest of it first thing tomorrow morning when I see him.”
Scaramucci said he had to get going. “Yeah, let me go, though, because I’ve gotta start tweeting some shit to make this guy crazy.”
Minutes later, he tweeted, “In light of the leak of my financial info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45.” With the addition of Priebus’s Twitter handle, he was making public what he had just told me: that he believed Priebus was leaking information about him. The tweet quickly went viral.
Scaramucci seemed to have second thoughts. Within two hours he deleted the original tweet and posted a new one denying that he was targeting the chief of staff. “Wrong!” he said, adding a screenshot of an Axios article that said, “Scaramucci appears to want Priebus investigated by FBI.” Scaramucci continued, “Tweet was public notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks. @Reince45.”
A few hours later, I appeared on CNN to discuss the overnight drama. As I was talking about Scaramucci, he called into the show himself and referenced our conversation. He changed his story about Priebus. Instead of saying that he was trying to expose Priebus as a leaker, he said that the reason he mentioned Priebus in his deleted tweet was because he wanted to work together with Priebus to discover the leakers.
“He’s the chief of staff, he’s responsible for understanding and uncovering and helping me do that inside the White House, which is why I put that tweet out last night,” Scaramucci said, after noting that he had talked to me Wednesday night. He then made an argument that journalists were assuming that he was accusing Priebus because they know Priebus leaks to the press.
“When I put out a tweet, and I put Reince’s name in the tweet,” he said, “they’re all making the assumption that it’s him because journalists know who the leakers are. So, if Reince wants to explain that he’s not a leaker, let him do that.”
Scaramucci then made a plea to viewers. “Let me tell you something about myself,” he said. “I am a straight shooter.”
To be that precise about what was said, he must have recorded the conversation. Has anybody heard it?
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo figaro magnifico
"Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background."
Exactly... amateurs who do not even understand how to interact with the media. This is the Communications Director. The reporter will cooperate with people from the administration if they want to stay off record. That is why this idiot was so pissed off in the first place.
I guess it fits... the President has no idea how to do his job either.
This administration is a total amateur clown show. Stupid voters elect a really stupid president who hires really, really stupid staffers. Not funny.
Very accurate.
The guy is a hedge fund manager and so far has shown that he lacks the skills to be a communications director for one of the most important positions in the world (POTUS). He's a mirror image of Trump - unpolished, unprepared, brash, arrogant, and in way over his head. The hedge fund mgr has made a real fool of himself in less than one week.
It's been another great week of entertainment / reality TV compliments of Trump & his staff. Throw in the Trump / Sessions show and the failure of the GOP Congress to follow through on health care promises for 7 years, and it's a winning combination. Who is running this country?
Printing this tabloid trash is the best example of illustrating the axe the MSM has to grind on the Trump administration. This sleazy maneuver would have never made it past an editors desk during the Obama whitehouse years.
Yes, it was indeed trash and sleaze that called the reporter.
Printing this tabloid trash is the best example of illustrating the axe the MSM has to grind on the Trump administration. This sleazy maneuver would have never made it past an editors desk during the Obama whitehouse years.
The unqualified rookie of a communicators director appointed by the unqualified president didn't ask for an off the record conversation. He dug his own hole. Now let him waller in it. Whose fault is that, goob?
Is it really tabloid trash, or is it facts that bite people like you in the ass because it shows the chaos and lack of skills of what's in the White House?
Can you dispute the article or all the texts & recordings we've seen & heard by the inept communications director? He's a laughing-stock. If so, have at it.
To watch this ass clown go after Bannon & Priebus with his classless words is better than watching Entertainment Tonight. All of this compliments and brought to you by Make America Great Again Productions. 😛
Printing this tabloid trash is the best example of illustrating the axe the MSM has to grind on the Trump administration. This sleazy maneuver would have never made it past an editors desk during the Obama whitehouse years.
Now that's funny. Your hero thinks the National Inquirer is real news, speaking of tabloid trash. Of course it wouldn't make it to the editors desk, none of them would speak like that. They are adults and professionals.
Printing this tabloid trash is the best example of illustrating the axe the MSM has to grind on the Trump administration. This sleazy maneuver would have never made it past an editors desk during the Obama whitehouse years.
I enjoy a nice trolling session once in a while, but you are a complete bore. Take some lessons from Mule - try to sound sincere when you write. Otherwise, you just defeat your own purpose. Try not to sound like a robot all the time. For example, if I wanted to troll the KKK fan site, I wouldn't go in there and say "black people are superior to white people, just my opinion." That would be transparent. You gotta really play the role and expand. That's how you troll. Learn from Mule to advance past your amateur level.
"I made a mistake in trusting a reporter".
That's like saying you made a mistake trusting the alligator after you stuck your head in its mouth. Effing idiot.
Printing this tabloid trash is the best example of illustrating the axe the MSM has to grind on the Trump administration. This sleazy maneuver would have never made it past an editors desk during the Obama whitehouse years.
The editors at FOX let all kinds of trash pass their desks that was spewed by DONALD TRUMP about how Obama was born in a foreign country. How is that not tabloid crap? And, how can Trump and his fanboys complain about what is happening now?
The reporters DO NOT create this juvenile freak show. They just report it.
Nobody but Trump and his legion of morons are responsible for their terrible behavior and bad press. Trump and most of the people around him have no idea what they are doing or even what they should be doing.
Who made Scaramucci say he would kill leakers? Who made Spicer say that inauguration crowd photographs were doctored? Who made Trump say he could grab crotches? Who made Trump and Rubio debate the size of each other's genitalia? Who made Trump claim that Obama had the UK wiretap his building? Who made Trump say he was going to prove that Obama was born in Kenya? Who made Trump, Jr. answer that email and set up that meeting? Who made Flynn, Sessions, and Kushner omit their meetings with Russians on their security clearance forms? We could go on forever...
The people who want to blame someone else for these clowns' bad press really leave me shaking my head.
If you cannot see that a fool is a fool, what does that make you?
And now Priebus is out as COS and Mooch's wife has filed for divorce. The well oiled machine lurches onward.
And of course, The media is at fault for reporting this. 😛
Printing this tabloid trash is the best example of illustrating the axe the MSM has to grind on the Trump administration. This sleazy maneuver would have never made it past an editors desk during the Obama whitehouse years.
The editors at FOX let all kinds of trash pass their desks that was spewed by DONALD TRUMP about how Obama was born in a foreign country. How is that not tabloid crap? And, how can Trump and his fanboys complain about what is happening now?
The reporters DO NOT create this juvenile freak show. They just report it.
Nobody but Trump and his legion of morons are responsible for their terrible behavior and bad press. Trump and most of the people around him have no idea what they are doing or even what they should be doing.
Who made Scaramucci say he would kill leakers? Who made Spicer say that inauguration crowd photographs were doctored? Who made Trump say he could grab crotches? Who made Trump and Rubio debate the size of each other's genitalia? Who made Trump claim that Obama had the UK wiretap his building? Who made Trump say he was going to prove that Obama was born in Kenya? Who made Trump, Jr. answer that email and set up that meeting? Who made Flynn, Sessions, and Kushner omit their meetings with Russians on their security clearance forms? We could go on forever...
The people who want to blame someone else for these clowns' bad press really leave me shaking my head.
If you cannot see that a fool is a fool, what does that make you?
Amazing isn't it.....I mean as soon as his name was first mentioned for any of his attempted runs my thought is "Carnival barker"....Stooge....Clown.....Drama Queen.....
There were people on the Republican ticket way more qualified. How John Kasich got looked over is way beyond me....as a liberal I would have easily cast my vote for him. He was responsible for balancing our budget during the Clinton years...giving us a surplus....
He also doesn't look into the past....for him...although he disagrees with abortion....gay marriage...trans gender issues he said those are now US laws that have given people equality he wasn't going to debate any longer...his agenda was progress through a conservative platform...not rehashing over and over things that have been put into law....
Big Dave On Bass says it in his signature...it takes 2 wings to fly....
I have no problem with a Republican in the White House if he has our best interest in mind...anyone for a moment thinks or thought that DT has their back is simply delusional....He not for one moment ever cared about anyone but DT....amazing that people can't see that....It's like a 100,000 watt search light in the eyes...His lack of caring about anything or anyone is blinding!!!
Printing this tabloid trash is the best example of illustrating the axe the MSM has to grind on the Trump administration. This sleazy maneuver would have never made it past an editors desk during the Obama whitehouse years.
The unqualified rookie of a communicators director appointed by the unqualified president didn't ask for an off the record conversation. He dug his own hole. Now let him waller in it. Whose fault is that, goob?
Is it really tabloid trash, or is it facts that bite people like you in the ass because it shows the chaos and lack of skills of what's in the White House?
Can you dispute the article or all the texts & recordings we've seen & heard by the inept communications director? He's a laughing-stock. If so, have at it.
To watch this ass clown go after Bannon & Priebus with his classless words is better than watching Entertainment Tonight. All of this compliments and brought to you by Make America Great Again Productions. 😛
His remarks about Reince Priebus were horrible for a person in a high level position. Full of cursing, and other derogatory determinations which he was unqualified to make. He has no Medical Degree which means he cannot categorize or label anyone with a disorder. Inappropriate, ugly and angry.
This is in his professional life.
Things aren't much different in his personal life.
Married three years to a woman from Wall Street who had some interesting ties.
Ball worked as a vice president in investor relations for SkyBridge Capital, a firm founded in 2005 by Scaramucci. He sold the company in January 2017. According to Bloomberg, the value of company was between $200 million and $230 million when it was sold.
Ball was never a big fan of Trump and even donated money to his opponents. She donated $2,700 to the Jeb Bush camp and $10,800 to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign. However, both of them dropped out when Trump became the front-runner for the Republican Party in the presidential election, reports said. In 2015, Ball even donated money to Democratic Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, according to reports.
REMARKS: His company was sold for $230 Million dollars. That puts him up there in the league with the world elites. Who's pulling his strings? Is he a Soros plant in the Trump admin?
To be that precise about what was said, he must have recorded the conversation. Has anybody heard it?
here you go
http://www.wnyc.org/story/the-scaramucci-call/
I think there is a book by him forthcoming on his adventures in Washington. Ought to be interesting.
I like how at the 3:15 minute mark Lizzard leads the listener into thinking Trump feels he's failing. At this point it's conjecture.
It's pretty obvious to anyone who's objective that Trump knows he's drowning. It's exactly why he constantly runs back to his base at these campaign style rallies. It's part politics, but mostly it's due to his own insecurities and weaknesses.
It's textbook behavior for Trump if you objectively consider his personality and mental health issues. It's also why he surrounds himself by yes men and women who tell him exactly what he wants to hear and bow at his feet so to speak. He needs constant fawning of his contrived greatness to continue his denial of reality. It's been his MO his entire life....
[Edited on 8/5/2017 by Chain]
