El Trumpo’s new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci was on CNN this morning and he was pretty well grilled by Jake Tapper on all of Trump’s inconsistencies, but he shot back a few times too.
Watch below:
We posted how he mocked CNN at the end of the interview, you can check that out here.
Of course, Kellyanne Conway thinks he *killed* it.
At @CNN waiting to tape Reliable Sources steps away from tour de force between @Scaramucci & @jaketapper on #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/lOWEkAPkSc
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) July 23, 2017
Some other reactions and highlights:
Watching #Scaramucci spar with @jaketapper is truly amazing. I can see why this guy got hired. Stick with it Tapper! #CNNSOTU
— Jessica (@jmy143) July 23, 2017
.@Scaramucci tells Tapper: "The kid took a nothing meeting." Referring to Trump Jr., who is 39 years old.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 23, 2017
.@Scaramucci just told @jaketapper "somebody" called him yest doubting Russian meddling. Tapper presses on who. Scaramucci: "The president"
— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) July 23, 2017
Jake Tapper managed to turn slickster Scaramucci into the lying mush mouth East Coast version of hillbilly huckster Sarah Huckabee #CNNSOTU
— Chi One (@ChiOneToo) July 23, 2017
Scaramucci just told @jaketapper he got an A- in my con law course but disagrees w/ me. He & Turley are both wrong. https://t.co/ZwWQysmurw
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 23, 2017
Scaramucci at first denied he called Trump a demagogue. Then later said "I don't care the president doesn't care."
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) July 23, 2017
Sounds like Scaramucci is a lot more slippery than what @jaketapper has been used to lately. 😉
— Jazz Shaw (@JazzShaw) July 23, 2017
Did @jaketapper forget that @Scaramucci has a $100+ million defamation claim against CNN for their malicious & defamatory hit job on him?
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 23, 2017
This @jaketapper intv with @Scaramucci is something else.
— Jamie Weinstein (@Jamie_Weinstein) July 23, 2017
.@Scaramucci killing it on fake news @jaketapper's show on very fake news CNN.
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 23, 2017
Scaramucci: "that's the president" when asked by @jaketapper about Trump's attacks against his own people: Sessions, etc.
— Lisa Mirando (@LisaMirandoCNN) July 23, 2017
It strikes me that Scaramucci is depending a LOT about not knowing the details and substance of Trump’s opinions and policies. That’s gonna change and I think people won’t let him get away with it once he’s broken in.
But here’s the essential issue – if Scaramucci REALLY believes what Trump believes, that his only problem is that Sean Spicer failed to change the media narrative, then he is going to fail just as badly as Spicer did. If he’s just telling Trump that he believes that, but knows the real problem is Trump himself, he might see some success. But I doubt that very much…
Fun times.