by Richard Schulman
In a phone interview with Axios on August 11th, President Trump’s short-lived Director of Communications Anthony Scaramucci (“Mooch” for short) compares President Trump to a nuclear reactor in meltdown mode, to Chernobyl. Scaramucci says that Republicans may need to pick a different candidate to run for president in 2020.
Echoing Progressive publications like the NY Times, Scaramucci claims that Trump’s attacks on congresswomen of color “divide the country.” His comments have been picked up and expanded by New York City’s other Democratic Party newspaper, the Daily News and featured prominently in the Drudge report.
Scaramucci lasted only ten days as White House communications director. Wikipedia summarizes:
On July 21, 2017, Scaramucci was appointed White House Communications Director. He began work on July 25, although he had not yet been sworn in. Days into the job, Scaramucci provoked controversy after an expletive-laden interview with The New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza, in which he made obscene and strongly derogatory statements about several members of the Trump administration. Ten days after the announcement of his appointment, he was fired by President Donald Trump on the recommendation of the new White House Chief of Staff, John F. Kelly.
Why did Mr. Scaramucci a few days ago begin making the talk show rounds to denounce his former boss — after support for the president for more than two years? We suspect another motive than Trump’s alleged “racism.” The Chinese communist regime in Beijing is upset by the president’s tariff war against China, by growing hostility in the US and elsewhere to the regime’s brutal totalitarianism, and by the pro-democracy uprising now underway in Hong Kong.
The Chinese communists are mobilizing their friends to attack the Trump administration in the hope it will go down to defeat in 2020. Where does Mr. Scaramucci fit into this picture, the reader may rightly ask? His business activities in recent years suggest an answer:
In 2005, Scaramucci founded SkyBridge Capital, a global alternative investment firm….On January 17, 2017, SkyBridge announced a majority stake sale to RON Transatlantic EG and HNA Capital (U.S.) Holding, a Chinese conglomerate with close ties to China’s Communist Party. With the announcement, Scaramucci stepped down from his co-management role and ended his affiliation with SkyBridge and SALT. In April 2018, it was announced that Scaramucci would be returning to SkyBridge after the deal with HNA Group had collapsed due to the lack of approval of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-agency government committee. Although the deal was called off, the two firms may strike a deal for HNA to market SkyBridge’s products in China.[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Scaramucci
So Scaramucci’s most important business deal was thwarted by the US government as a security risk to the US, but now he is trying to retrieve what he can by marketing SkyBridge’s products through HNA Capital (U.S.) Holding which, as noted above, is “a Chinese conglomerate with close ties to China’s Communist Party.” Given the fact that Chinese President Xi’s government is not doing any favors to American companies right now, how does Mr. Scaramucci’s SkyBridge hope to ingratiate itself with the otherwise anti-American Beijing regime? In the light of Mr. Scaramucci’s activities in the past few days, the question answers itself.
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