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Trump spin doctor Scaramucci hasn’t got Mooch to offer

Gone, but not forgotten ... Anthony Scaramucci. Photo: AFP
Gone, but not forgotten ... Anthony Scaramucci. Photo: AFP

Scaramucci, Scaramucci … Trump’s communications director at the White House, July 22:

I love the President …

Couldn’t do the fandango. The Wall Street Journal, yesterday:

Scaramucci was removed from the communications director post on Monday …

Trump’s general strikes like lightning. The Wall Street Journal, a few hours before:

Retired Marine Corps General John Kelly took charge of the Trump White House Monday morning …

Very, very frightening. The Wall Street Journal’s Scaramucci story, yesterday:

Mr Kelly urged Mr Scaramucci to resign shortly after being sworn in …

Mashable writer Chris Taylor on Twitter, yesterday:

… Scaramucci lasted for exactly 2400 plays of Bohemian Rhapsody.

Did “The Mooch” deserve this? Anthony Scaramucci in The New Yorker, July 27:

Reince (Priebus) is a f..king paranoid schizophrenic …

That’s pretty bad but … Scaramucci in The New Yorker, continued:

I’m not (WH chief strategist) Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own …

Whoa there, cowboy. Time out. Scaramucci on Twitter, July 23:

Full transparency: I’m deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & shouldn’t be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda …

Will he go back to his old views now Trump has dumped him? Scaramucci on Twitter, April 16, 2012:

… I hope she (Hillary Clinton) runs, she is incredibly competent.

The Mooch originally got the White House gig because of first daughter Ivanka Trump. Politico, July 30:

President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law (Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner) had been double-teaming for weeks to persuade him to oust chief of staff Reince Priebus … That victory followed Trump’s appointment a week earlier of financier Anthony Scaramucci … a move the couple also strongly supported.

Alas, he was too good at his job. The Washington Post reporter Philip Ruckeron Twitter, yesterday:

Scaramucci was an effective tool for some inside White House to get ­Reince fired, but appears to have worn out his use.

Sad! Trump on Twitter, yesterday:

Great day at the White House!

Back in Australia, a failed Islamist plot continues to dominate headlines. The Australian, yesterday:

Police are understood to be investigating links between the four men ­arrested in Sydney over an alleged plot to bring down a passenger plane and senior Australian Islamic State fighters.

But not everyone is worried about terrorists … Lawyer Julian Burnside on Twitter, yesterday:

It’s the tragedy of our age that gov’ts can still win praise & support by frightening us & then promising protection. (Leading Nazi Hermann) ­Goering did the same.

News Corps Australia columnist David Penberthy responds perfectly on Twitter, yesterday:

No he didn’t. Goering was party to the genocide of 6 million Jews whereas we arrested some arseholes who wanted to kill civilians on a plane

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