William d cohan scaramucci rant
“Will make it better this week,” Anthony Scaramucci e-mailed me at a.m. on Sunday morning. Alas, he would not get the chance.
In 10 days that shook the world, my friend the Mooch has gone from the white-hot center of the political universe to a discarded member of Donald Trump’s political circus ride. He is out of his role in the White House, having been unexpectedly c*ck-blocked, as he might put it in his own colorful parlance, by the new chief of staff, John Kelly, and the president to whom he pledged his undying fealty.
It may be the quickest round trip in political history. “I think fruit flies survive longer,” a friend e-mailed me upon hearing the news. Technically, the Mooch was out even before he was in, since his official start date wasn’t until mid-August.
During his brief tenure in the West Wing, the Mooch brought much of his mishegas on himself by being belligerent, out of control, and using language and imagery that even Trump in his locker-room days would have shied away from.
He was out of control and knew it.
William d cohan scaramucci rant youtube And, while I feel like I am pretty conversant in most insults and putdowns, "cock of the swamp" is a new one to me. Reince and I want to offer you a number of different jobs. Posted by indianswim. And you got to stop the leaking.His wild interview with Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker probably sealed his fate. He wrote in an e-mail on Saturday morning at a.m. that it was “a mistake” to talk to Lizza. “I lost my temper,” he said.
As I wrote upon his appointment, Trump has proven that he is an expert at stealing other people’s credibility. I feared that Scaramucci, despite his years of hard work and good judgment, would be his most recent victim.
Scaramucci, after all, worked indefatigably to build his hedge fund of funds, SkyBridge Capital, and he has been working hard to sell it to a Chinese conglomerate so that he could take the job in the White House. Now, a week later, the sale looks to be in jeopardy. In the end, Scaramucci was willing to sacrifice a lot for Trump, including a material slice of his reputation; his relationship with his second wife, Deidre, who filed for divorce earlier this month; and being present for the birth of his second child with her (and his fifth child overall).
All in all, Scaramucci got an abject lesson in how quickly Trump dispenses with people who are no longer useful to him. In a week’s time, Trump seemingly got Anthony to do his dirty work—Sean Spicer quit and Reince Priebus was fired—and then he spit him out, “now coated in tar and feathers,” a friend e-mailed.
William d cohan scaramucci rant Coming Soon? Mooch was always right about Bannon. These are tough lessons to learn for anyone. Do I kill the bank or keep the bank?It is a stunning round trip.
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If he’s smart, and he is, Anthony will learn from this experience. He will learn the lesson of Icarus, and of flying too close to the sun. He will learn the wisdom of Lord Acton, about how power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
He will learn that long knives can also come out for him.
He will learn that bad things can happen to good people. These are tough lessons to learn for anyone. But they are especially tough when they play out so flamboyantly and so publicly. His humiliating execution seemed to be taking place in real time, feeding the beasts on Facebook, on Twitter, and on cable television.
Yes, mistakes were made.
Trusting Trump to stand by him, though, was probably his biggest mistake. Trump is loyal to no one but himself.
William d cohan scaramucci rant images: Drop that stupid business of yours and come work for me. Then, when he went to Harvard Law, his mother thought he was going to Hartford, Connecticut. You were there for three weeks. It'd be great to get this guy back in another position in the white house before Trump leaves office.
The tragedy here is that Anthony, who wended his way to the president after turns supporting Scott Walker and Jeb Bush, should never have signed up for the Trump show in the first place. He should never have believed that Trump would somehow treat him differently than he has treated so many others.
Anthony had his shot.
He blew it. He probably knows it. He is no doubt feeling humiliated. There are probably few people who feel even the slightest bit sorry for him.
William d cohan scaramucci rant video He will learn that long knives can also come out for him. Do I kill the bank or keep the bank? The Mooch thinks you are Michael Jordan. I've lived in Washington for 20 years and I've never worked in the New York business world, but I still feel relatively comfortable believing that Mooch doth protest too much about how terrible the nation's capital is.But I happen to be one of them. I know he knew better than to get involved with Trump, but he could not resist. “In all seriousness, this is a sad story,” Sam Stein, politics editor for the Daily Beast, tweeted after the news broke. “Guy sold his company, divorced his wife, didn’t see his kid’s birth, for .
. . this.”
The worst part, however, is that way too many people now think that the Mooch they saw last week is the real one.
William d cohan author You want to know what your chances are? I say the words. But the position, like any ambassadorship, required Senate approval, which would take a few months. Scaramucci blamed Steve Bannon for blowing the embers into a conflagration by calling Mark Meadows of the Freedom Caucus.I beg to differ. Scaramucci tried to be something he isn’t: a jerk. It was not who he was. It is not who he is. He is better off out of the swamp. Maybe he realizes that now. I hope for his sake he does. The Mooch is dead. Long live the Mooch!