Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, who served a very brief term in the previous Donald Trump administration weighed in on a host of issues surrounding the November election and what a potential second term for his ex-boss would mean, in a media interview that was published Wednesday.
Trump’s Dangerous: Trump is an “anti-American candidate,” said Scaramucci in an interview with ABC News Australia, adding that the former president’s “malevolence” and “cruelty” could prove costly to the U.S. as well as the world.
He flagged three potential dangers from a Trump second term. “The first danger is that he wants to destabilize the current world order, so he’ll roll back the WW II rules-based society, which, at least in North America and in Europe, is NATO,” he said.
This, the SkyBridge Capital founder, said would enable Russian leader Vladimir Putin. “There are smart people in those two countries [and] they’re telling you that they feel a danger from Vladimir Putin,” he said.
The second Trump White House will also be isolationist, Scaramucci said, adding that the former president wants to put exorbitant tariffs and deport 15 million immigrants. The Republican party’s candidate aims to have 50,000 of the 14 million people who work for the government be fired and replaced by his loyalists, he said.
Scaramucci also said the Republican party has now become a “Trumpist” party. “He’s got this new group of people that are to the hard right, and they’re very well-organized, which makes him more dangerous. He’s not an ideological person himself, but he’s now adhered to ideological people,” he said.
Harris Stands Chance: Harris replacing President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket has shaken Trump, said Scaramucci. This has forced Trump to pivot his attack plan but has yet to master it when it comes to the vice president, he said.
The ex-White House aide said Trump can’t be written off. “I think he’s been shaken by her but I think he’s a very adaptive guy. He’s a human Swiss Army knife and in terms of his political instincts, he’ll find the right tool to strike at her rhetorically,” he said.
Trump was fixated on Biden until the latter was in the race, fixated about him being younger of the two, and now he has been imperiled by the demography, said Scaramucci. “You’ve had this great demographic recirculation, so when he calls her stupid and he says she turned black and all this sort of nonsense, baby boomers were conditioned to deal with that, but the generation Zs, they don’t like it at all,” he said.
The upcoming debate will be a key moment for Harris and she needs to explain her position and how she would help Americans, he added.
Explaining why Trump is still leading in the betting market, Scaramucci said, “He is favored on two issues that really matter to America, the economy and the issues at the border as it relates to immigration, and she can take them on, but she’s got to get way more aggressive.”
“Her economic agenda is actually working, and Americans may not feel it today, but she can go into the heartland and she could explain to them what Joe Biden and her did, that are actually creating a good set-up for the next four years … but she’s got to get out there and articulate that.”
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