Scaramucci says people in the White House 'want to eject' Trump

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published 13 August 2017

"The president is not a representative of the political establishment class, so for whatever reason the people have made a decision that they want to eject him," fired White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told ABC's George Stephanopoulos in an interview Sunday.

"I think there are elements inside of Washington, also inclusive in the White House, that are not necessarily abetting the president's interests or his agenda," Scaramucci claimed. When Stephanopoulos pressed him to "name names," Scaramucci referred back to his colorful public critiques of ousted White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

Scaramucci also weighed in on President Trump's response to this weekend's violence in Charlottesville, which critics have charged did not adequately label and condemn the ideology, associations, and tactics of the white nationalist demonstrators. "I wouldn't have recommended that statement," Scaramucci said of Trump's remarks. "I think he would have needed to have been much harsher," he continued. "With the moral authority of the presidency, you have to call that stuff out."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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