Scaramucci says he's 'just getting started,' will raise money for
anti-Trump effort
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[September 07, 2019]
By Moira Warburton
TORONTO (Reuters) - Anthony Scaramucci,
financial investor and short-lived communications director for U.S.
President Donald Trump, said on Friday that he was raising money to
prevent his former boss from being re-elected.
In an interview with Reuters in Toronto, Scaramucci discussed his past
support for the president and the chance of another Republican running a
successful campaign to unseat Trump in a primary nominating contest,
which he believes is the most likely outcome.
"There's no question. I'm raising PAC money," he said, referring to
political action committees that help raise funds for candidates. "He's
a very, very bad person, and he needs to be removed."
Trump's ex-communications director lasted just 11 days in the job,
before he was fired as a result of an expletive-laden on-record
conversation with a New Yorker reporter in which Scaramucci lambasted
other senior White House staffers.
The past two weeks have seen him engage in a bitter and highly public
war of words with his former boss, as the two exchanged insults on
Twitter and in media interviews - a war which Scaramucci says is "just
getting started. I will cross-sectionally dismantle him."
He declined to say whether the PAC money would go towards supporting
Democrats, insisting that Trump will not be the Republican candidate on
the 2020 ballot. Scaramucci said he will show up in person to campaign
against Trump's re-election.
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Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is
pictured following a preview for the off-Broadway show 'Trump Family
Special' in New York City, New York, U.S., August 22, 2018.
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
"I'm going to be on the street in swing states talking to suburban
women about this person and the danger that this person presents to
their children," Scaramucci said.
His previous support for the president was due to "accepting levels
of gaslighting (psychological manipulation) that I should not have
been accepting," he said.
"Think like a patriot. We have to remove him from power," Scaramucci
said, adding that the president had "early stage fascism."
Trump, for his part, has turned on his former employee, calling
Scaramucci a "highly unstable nut job," a "dope" and "a mental
wreck" on Twitter.
(Reporting by Moira Warburton, Editing by Steve Scherer and Rosalba
O'Brien)
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