Donald Trump’s newly appointed communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, has claimed his first scalp in the quest to plug White House leaks.
Hours after a Politico published an exclusive report in which Scaramucci said he’s prepared to “fire everybody,” starting with assistant press secretary Michael Short – that’s exactly what happened.
Scaramucci confirmed to POLITICO early Tuesday that he planned to start by dismissing assistant press secretary Michael Short at a morning meeting, but that move was apparently delayed.
Short, who initially said Tuesday that he hadn’t yet been informed of any decision, resigned Tuesday afternoon.
LOL! The guy was fired with a leak.
Text message just now from Michael Short: "I have resigned."
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 25, 2017
As Tara Palmeri reports in Politico, “Short’s ouster is Scaramucci’s first warning shot to White House aides who have been perceived as disloyal to the president. In an echo of Trump’s not-so-subtle warning to Jeff Sessions about his status as attorney general, Scaramucci’s vow to “fire everybody” is a warning to staffers perceived as leakers.”
“I’m going to fire everybody, that’s how I’m going to do it… You’re either going to stop leaking or you’re going to be fired.”
“If they don’t stop leaking, I’m going to put them out on Pennsylvania Avenue,” Mr. Scaramucci said, gesturing at the street outside the White House gates with his eyes shielded from the sun by blue-tinted aviator sunglasses. ” Do you want to sell postcards to the tourists outside the gate, or do you want to work in the West Wing. What do you want to do?” -Anthony Scaramucci
Scaramucci said he has full authority from president Trump to clean house – while a source close to the new comms director revealed that his plan is to assemble a team from the world of corporate communications, as well as “conservative broadcast stars.”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a brief statement: ““We are grateful for Michael’s service and wish him well in his future endeavors.” (selling postcards to tourists outside the gate).
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We are the fucking narrative now. You queers women pedos aka Libtards. Are fucking finished. Haha.
the president is Gawd though he worships the golden calf. ‘Hail Trump’. #fo-eva
ironman: not a boyscout
LOL. The irony. Message to leakers? Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Next get somebody to clean out the Justice Dept.
John Wick em. Fire them all.
Finally. Trump hired a gun with big, brass balls. It takes a non-politically connect individual to act against the establishment. The question now is how long it takes for the deep state (CIA, FBI, NSA, +14 agencies etc.) to look into Scaramucci’s life and blackmail him.