Continuing his surprising evolution from reliable surrogate to anti-Trump truth teller, Scaramucci announced he was assembling a coalition of former Trump Cabinet officials to speak out against the president ahead of the 2020 election — a cable news sound bite that, yet again, set off the president. He says he’s assembling a coalition of people like him to seek a GOP alternative to Trump in the primary.
- In an op-ed in today’s Post, Scaramucci restated what might now be obvious to all watching: He won’t support Trump for reelection.
- “I broke from Trump because not only has his behavior become more erratic and his rhetoric more inflammatory, but also because, like all demagogues, he is incapable of handling constructive criticism,” Scaramucci wrote. “As we lie on the bed of nails Trump has made, it’s often difficult to see how much the paradigm of acceptable conduct has shifted. For the Republican Party, it’s now a question of whether we want to start cleaning up the mess or continue papering over the cracks.”
- As for the attacks that Trump unleashed on his former ally throughout the day and late into the night on Twitter, Scaramucci told Power Up it’s “because he knows I’m right.”
- “He can feel his support eroding. He can feel himself losing control. He knows he’s unhinged but can’t help himself. He’s also trying to make an example out of me so nobody else speaks out,” the Mooch told us.
View the complete August 20 article by Jacqueline Alemany on The Washington Post website here.