Scaramucci FIRES random guy, THREATENS the rest of the staff..

by SooperMexican

Scaramucci wasn’t screwing around – he’s already firing people just based on rumors that they might have leaked.

…inside the White House, assistant press secretary Michael Short has for months been accused by colleagues of being one of several “Reince [Priebus] loyalists” who routinely leaks to the press — internal sniping that Short has repeatedly and vehemently denied.

So it wasn’t a terrible surprise on Tuesday morning to see Politico publish an article in which Scaramucci announced his plan to sack Short. Except, Trump’s new comms chief never actually gave Short a heads-up. According to multiple sources in the White House, Short and many of his colleagues learned of Scaramucci’s decision to axe him via the press, Twitter, and frantic texts.

Later Tuesday morning, Short was telling reporters that “no one has told me anything and [that] the entire premise [of the story] is false.” By early afternoon, he had announced he was in fact leaving the White House.

Scaramucci blamed the press.

“This is the problem with the leaking,” he said on Tuesday, bizarrely responding to his own on-the-record leaking to Politico. “Let’s say I’m firing Michael Short today. The fact that you guys know about it before he does really upsets me as a human being and as a Roman Catholic. You got that?”

Here’s a really good thread about why this doesn’t seem like a good idea:

I called this strategy idiotic as soon as the Mooch mentioned it, but this guy broke it down with pretty good specificity. This is the “solution” to a subtle problem that a thug has – they believe more strength and more power will solve everything.

Good luck there, Mooch.


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