Scaramucci is everything wrong with the Trump administration

What the Mooch reveals about the Donald

Anthony Scaramucci.
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If there were any doubt remaining that the Trump administration was a conventional Republican one that just happens to be run by foul-mouthed egomaniacal paranoiacs, the ascent of Anthony Scaramucci removes it.

A year ago on the campaign trail, Donald Trump was routinely denouncing Hillary Clinton for her ties to Wall Street, even echoing Bernie Sanders' demand that his opponent release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs. "You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing and it's ridiculous," he told an interviewer last August. "I would let people making hundreds of millions of dollars a year pay some tax, because right now they are paying very little tax and I think it's outrageous."

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.