New Trump communications director promises crackdown on media leaks

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New Trump communications director promises crackdown on media leaks

By Timothy Gardner

 

New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci addresses the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anthony Scaramucci, President Donald Trump's new communications director, said on Sunday that one of his first tasks will be to halt leaks and that staff on his team would be fired if the leaks do not stop.

 

"If we don't get the leaks stopped, I am a businessperson, and so I will take dramatic action to stop those leaks," Scaramucci said on Fox News Sunday.

 

Scaramucci told CBS's Face the Nation that leakers are "actually un-American," and that he would lead a team meeting on Monday.

The hiring of Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier and Republican fundraiser, brings a combative style to the White House press office as President Donald Trump lashes out at probes into whether his campaign colluded with Russians during the 2016 campaign.

 

Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into any relationships or contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russia during the election, but Trump has not been accused of any wrongdoing by federal investigators.

 

White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who became a household name in his short and turbulent drama-filled term, quickly resigned after Scaramucci's appointment. Sarah Sanders, Spicer's deputy, was promoted to press secretary.

 

Scaramucci was forced to deal with leaks on his first days on the job after The Washington Post reported last week that Trump and his legal team had examined presidential powers to pardon aides, family members and potentially himself.

 

Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday that leaks against the administration are a "crime" and that he has "complete power to pardon."

Scaramucci said Trump only tweeted about the issue of pardons in reaction to the leak. Trump "doesn't like the fact that he has a two-minute conversation in the Oval Office or in his study and that people are running out and leaking," about the administration examining legal options of pardons, Scaramucci, who reports directly to Trump, said on CBS. "There's no need for him to pardon anybody," he said.

 

And Scaramucci, who has at times supported Democrats, spent part of the weekend deleting some of his own past tweets on subjects that run counter to Trump administration policy, such as taking action on climate change. Explaining the deletions, Scaramucci wrote on Twitter that "past views evolved & shouldn't be a distraction."

 

(Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-07-24

[craigt3365]

This coming from a guy who wrote this article blasting Trump.  He's deleted all Tweets that bashed Trump also.  What a turncoat.  Worse than Spicey. LOL

 

Watch the interview.  He's as bad as the rest.

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/23/politics/kfile-scaramucci-trump-column/index.html

 

Here's what he wrote, and it references Trump.  Though not by name.

https://web-beta.archive.org/politics/2016/01/13/bankruptcy-and-restructuring-republican-party.html

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Call it, if you will, a moral debt restructuring, one caused by the reckless behavior of a man who knows a thing or two about bankruptcy.

 

[Scott]

A troll post has been removed.  

 

[boomerangutang]

The polarization is getting more pronounced, day by day.  On one side is a bunkered down criminal group occupying the Oval Office, with a few die-hard redneck fans nationwide.  On the other side is every other American.  Lance the pustule a.s.a.p. 

[Boon Mee]

Carramucci is going to do a great job. 

[mamypoko]

he seems a little sihoueto of a man

[craigt3365]

2 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Carramucci is going to do a great job. 

You spelled his name wrong.  And yes, he'll do a great job of lying.  Just like the others.  Amazing some seem to think that is OK.

[ballpoint]

4 minutes ago, mamypoko said:

he seems a little sihoueto of a man

But will he do the fandango?

[Scott]

Fake News Comment removed.  

[Boon Mee]

This new comms director is promises to fire one and all until the leaks stop. 

 

Drain the Swamp! ? 

[craigt3365]

2 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

This new comms director is promises to fire one and all until the leaks stop. 

 

Drain the Swamp! ? 

This guy is a hedge fund guy also from Goldman Sachs.  How is that draining the swamp?  Trump's filling it up! 55555

 

Sad you can't see that.

[Peterw42]

17 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

This new comms director is promises to fire one and all until the leaks stop. 

 

Drain the Swamp! ? 

Will he fire Trumps for leaking his only good tax return, the one that had client copy stamped on it.

 

He is the Comms Director, he doesnt have the power to fire anyone.

Edited July 24, 2017 by Peterw42

[joecoolfrog]

12 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

This new comms director is promises to fire one and all until the leaks stop. 

 

Drain the Swamp! ? 

No , trying to hide the swamp , sad you cannot recognise the difference.

[lvr181]

Politicians and their mouthpieces are always good at "backtracking" (covering their collective asses - not only U.S.A. but elsewhere as well).  

[lvr181]

1 hour ago, Boon Mee said:

This new comms director is promises to fire one and all until the leaks stop. 

 

Drain the Swamp! ? 

Hard to drain the swamp when you're up to your ass in alligators!  

[dunroaming]

2 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

This new comms director is promises to fire one and all until the leaks stop. 

 

Drain the Swamp! ? 

Good to see Boon Mee back in the sparring arena.  Still delusional but anything else would be a disappointment.

[dutchisaan]

6 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

Good to see Boon Mee back in the sparring arena.  Still delusional but anything else would be a disappointment.

Yes, it's good to have him back. I was missing my morning laugh! Welcome back boon mee, and please don't disappoint me, for ever long that will last.

[Boon Mee]

I know y'all missed my avatar! 

 

On Topic :  Now with the tag team of Huckabee & this smart little short fella, the Jim Acostas and Jake Tappers will be further marginalized. 

[iReason]

8 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Now with the tag team of Huckabee & this smart little short fella, the Jim Acostas and Jake Tappers will be further marginalized. 

 

Naa, the true patriots in the White House will continue to inform the public of the buffoonery going on by the inept one.

[iReason]

The Bankruptcy and Restructuring of the Republican Party

By Anthony Scaramucci Published January 13, 2016 Opinion FOXBusiness

 

"Unbridled demagoguery has driven the GOP to an inflection point from which there is no turning back."

 

"If a populist prevails in the primary, as appears increasingly likely, the party faces either devastating defeat in the general election or a new, unrecognizable identity."

 

"Call it, if you will, a moral debt restructuring, one caused by the reckless behavior of a man who knows a thing or two about bankruptcy."

 

https://web-beta.archive.org/politics/2016/01/13/bankruptcy-and-restructuring-republican-party.html

[dutchisaan]

6 minutes ago, iReason said:

The Bankruptcy and Restructuring of the Republican Party

By Anthony Scaramucci Published January 13, 2016 Opinion FOXBusiness

 

"Unbridled demagoguery has driven the GOP to an inflection point from which there is no turning back."

 

"If a populist prevails in the primary, as appears increasingly likely, the party faces either devastating defeat in the general election or a new, unrecognizable identity."

 

"Call it, if you will, a moral debt restructuring, one caused by the reckless behavior of a man who knows a thing or two about bankruptcy."

 

https://web-beta.archive.org/politics/2016/01/13/bankruptcy-and-restructuring-republican-party.html

Link don't work, can you post it again?

Thank you.

[iReason]

8 minutes ago, dutchisaan said:

Link don't work, can you post it again?

Thank you.

Might be some shenanigans going on.

 

Go directly there from this article where it says "column":

(a lot more stuff in it)

 

Scaramucci wrote 'America deserves better' than 'unbridled demagoguery' in early 2016 op-ed aimed at Trump

 

"Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director, wrote a scathing column in early 2016 aimed at then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, warning that the abandonment of "common decency out of primeval fear" echoed some of the worst examples of US history."

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/23/politics/kfile-scaramucci-trump-column/index.html

[iReason]

5 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

Carramucci is going to do a great job. 

 

Your new hero: 

 

 

[dunroaming]

Scarramucci should fit in well in Trumps swamp.  Lying and turn-coating seems to be second nature to him so a perfect fit I would say.

[Berkshire]

3 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

This new comms director is promises to fire one and all until the leaks stop. 

 

Drain the Swamp! ? 

The new comms director should focus on stopping the lies coming out of the Trump Administration.  Oh wait, he's going to be in charge of the lies coming out of the Trump Administration.  Wonder which woman SNL will get to play this guy. 

[yardrunner]

3 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

This new comms director is promises to fire one and all until the leaks stop. 

 

Drain the Swamp! ? 

the term that should be used is whistle blowing and long may it continue if it stops illegal behavior   

[Boon Mee]

 One more thing Scaramucci said on "Face the Nation" yesterday -  Tweeting about everything is "the crystal essence of the president." The crystal essence!

 

This guys is going to work out just fine. 

[iReason]

4 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

This new comms director is promises to fire one and all until the leaks stop. 

Drain the Swamp!

 

I have noticed that you are continuing your manner of dropping in oblique statements and running off.

And when others supply a counterpoint, you never respond.

Nor had you ever in the past.

 

Why is that?

 

Boon Bot?

[Boon Mee]

Generally speaking, whenever there's a difference of opinion regarding a political topic, y'all jump up and down and cry "Troll" so that rather limits dialog...unfortunately...

[Boon Mee]

One more from Scaramucci's  "Face the Nation":

 

"What I know about President Trump is... he's got very, very good karma."

 

That he does!