White House insiders cast Mooch rant as a bump in the road

White House insiders cast Mooch rant as a bump in the road



Donald Trump is said to have 'loved' Anthony Scaramucci's expletive-filled rant about his White House colleagues.

The president's view of his director of communications calling his chief of a staff 'a f***ing paranoid schizophrenic' and accusing his chief strategist of 'trying to suck his own c**k' was according to Axios, which called the Mooch 'empowered'.

But whether it was helpful to his long-term prospects at 1600 Penn remains to be seen.

Loyalists of the president are casting Scaramucci's unbelievable conversation with a reporter as a bump in the road for the newest Trump aide.

Both he and Reince Priebus, the chief of staff, were on Air Force One on Friday - although on the ground they kept their distance and Scaramucci refused to comment on the tiff to reporters.

He did not return with the president Friday from Long Island, dropping off after Trump's speech in New York.



Scaramucci threatened to 'f***ing kill all the leakers' in the White House and report them to the 'F.B.I. and the f***ing Department of Justice' in a call with a reporter on Wednesday evening.

The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza published an article quoting Scaramucci in excruciating detail after White House official made claims Lizza knew to be untrue yesterday morning on New Day.'

Scaramucci apologized on Twitter on Thursday evening for his 'colorful' comments and ripped Lizza for his piece on the phone call, even though the call was not categorized as off the record.

'I made a mistake in trusting in a reporter. It won't happen again,' he tweeted.

Reporters repeatedly asked him to address his comments on Air Force One on Friday, but he declined.

'Better not to comment,' he said as he boarded the president's plane. 'Come on, that was not fair. You know that was not fair,' he told journalists on his way out of the aircraft.

The episode with Lizza, while embarrassing for Scaramucci, the White House, and ultimately, the president, did not immediately result in the Trump aide's dismissal.

One White House official told Politico that Scaramucci was unlikely to be sacked over this particular incident.

'He didn't say anything negative about Trump,' this source said.

Another person suggested to DailyMail.com that Scaramucci's fight with Priebus was preferable to the media's continuous coverage of the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.

The blood sport between the former hedge funder and the ex-Republican National Committee head overtook conversation on Thursday evening about the GOP's failed bids to repeal Obamacare, as well.

A spectacular failure of GOP leadership in both the White House and the US Capitol, the the subject was pushed aside as White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders went on Fox News on Thursday night.

Huckabee Sanders actually attempted to invoke the upcoming vote on the 'skinny' repeal bill that later failed.

'We are focused on health care. It’s going to be a big thing over the next several hours. We’re very committed to making sure we repeal and replace Obamacare. That's going to be taking place later tonight,' she said on 'The Story' with Martha MacCallum.

MacCullum told her in response: 'Believe me, I have a list of questions I want to ask about that are policy-oriented that got, you know, knocked lower when this news happened.'

Sucked into the brawl between Scaramucci, the incoming White House communications director, and other senior West Wing staffers, Huckabee Sanders said that the words that Scaramucci used are 'in many circles, probably not appropriate language.'

'And he's very passionate about the president and the president's agenda, and I think he may have let that get the best of him in that conversation,' she said.



The Trump spokeswoman said she had not spoken to the president about the New Yorker article that had dropped hours before.

Yet, she was on message, repeating Scaramucci's claim that his language was 'colorful' and emblematic of his 'passion' for president.

'Sometimes when you have the best people from around the country