TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 2019

Mooching around

How Trump’s short-lived communications director Anthony

Scaramucci turned against the president – and now promises a coalition

of ex-staffers to denounce him ahead of 2020

Scaramucci is an arch press critic of the US president (Getty)

JOE SOMMERLAD

Donald Trump has dismissed staff from the Oval Office as readily as he did contestants from the boardroom
of Trump Tower as host of NBC’s The Apprentice.

Few have lingered longer in the memory than Anthony Scaramucci.

Since being fired as White House director of communications after just 11 days in July 2017, the former
investment banker has dined out on his experience of the inner workings of the Trump administration,
appearing regularly as a talking head on innumerable TV shows and podcasts to offer insight into the
president and speculation on his motivations.

Recently though, “The Mooch” has rounded on a man he previously defended doggedly, even after the

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