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busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 03:45 PM Jul 2017

Anthony Scaramucci?

Jesus.. Graduated from the same high school I did...Me? 17 yrs earlier.. Might know a relative or two.

But why the hell did Trump pick this guy.. He’s a hard core Wall Street guy who once called out Obama for “Banging around Wall Street like a Pinanta “ This was at a Town Hall.. That Could be a good enough reason for Trump.

But Check this out.. This might be what caught Trump’s Attention:

CNN retraction and apology
On June 26, 2017, three network investigative journalists: Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau, and Lex Haris, resigned from CNN over a retracted Trump-Russia story that connected Scaramucci to a $10 billion Russian investment fund. The network apologized to Scaramucci and stated the online story did not meet their editorial standards. Scaramucci said the original story was not true, and accepted CNN's apology. CNN stated that the investigation found the story “wasn’t solid enough” for publication.[28][29]

I do remember ...but there’s so much stuff going on with thie President.. I already forgot.

Wow! Is Trump putting this guy out to continuall remind the press of the Fake News Epidemic?
But even so..It just seems so fucking crazy and dumb.... But Thats our President.. Dumb and not young and full of?


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Anthony Scaramucci? (Original Post) busterbrown Jul 2017 OP
Yes, he believes this guy can help to spin the Russia issue. NCTraveler Jul 2017 #1
Coulda been a plant, but there HAS to Gabi Hayes Jul 2017 #2
he's not off the hook on the investment firm he owned bigtree Jul 2017 #3
He is really..... Srkdqltr Jul 2017 #4
Under stand this, Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #5
Will he do the Fandango? Dave Starsky Jul 2017 #6
Thunderbolt and lightning XRubicon Jul 2017 #7
He was 12 years old when that song was popular. Dave Starsky Jul 2017 #8
 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
1. Yes, he believes this guy can help to spin the Russia issue.
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 03:52 PM
Jul 2017

That retraction you point out has been the highlight of many articles, and not just today.

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
2. Coulda been a plant, but there HAS to
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 03:52 PM
Jul 2017

be something there

Wonder what happened to those 3 guys

David Cay Johnston, are you listening?

bigtree

(85,986 posts)
3. he's not off the hook on the investment firm he owned
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 03:57 PM
Jul 2017

Anthony Scaramucci, aide to President-elect Donald Trump and founder of SkyBridge Capital, discussed possible joint investments in a meeting in Davos with the head of a Russian sovereign wealth fund that the U.S. sanctioned in 2015, the fund’s press service said.

The meeting with Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a $10 billion state-run investment vehicle, is the first public contact between the incoming administration and Kremlin-backed business. Trump has suggested he could ease the sanctions on Russia if the Kremlin cooperates on his policy priorities. Scaramucci confirmed the Davos meeting.

In an interview with the Russian state news agency TASS Tuesday, he also criticized the sanctions as ineffective. Trump’s view about Russia is that “there’s probably shared values or shared interests, that we can align ourselves with each other and this could be mutually beneficial,” he said.

Dmitriev’s fund said it’s organizing a visit by a delegation of top U.S. corporate executives to Russia and plans to open a representative office in New York in May. In an interview last week, Dmitriev said the visit would be aimed at highlighting the benefits of closer economic ties and could take place as early as this spring. The current U.S. administration has discouraged American business from working with the Kremlin in the wake of the sanctions it imposed after the Russian intervention in Ukraine starting in 2014.

Speaking to Bloomberg Television Tuesday, Scaramucci said he’s long known Dmitriev and worked with him to set up the business delegation as a private citizen. “The idea was, many months ago, to have more outreach with Russia,” he said, noting that he will have to determine whether he can continue from within the administration, given ethics rules.


read: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-17/in-davos-trump-aide-talks-deals-with-sanctioned-kremlin-fund

Srkdqltr

(6,271 posts)
4. He is really.....
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 04:00 PM
Jul 2017

an ass kisser. No wonder Trump likes him. Amazing. Ass kisser and name dropper.. he LOVES everyone particularly Trump. He even uses the same type of language . Yukkkk

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. Under stand this,
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 04:05 PM
Jul 2017

Skybridge is still in the process of being sold to a China Billionaire Group and is under Ethics Probe. Yes,this Hustler is tied to the Russian Money people.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
6. Will he do the Fandango?
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 04:06 PM
Jul 2017

You know this person has heard this from almost everyone he has ever met his entire life, at least since 1976.

This has probably made his heart hard and cold.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
8. He was 12 years old when that song was popular.
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 04:18 PM
Jul 2017

That is a tender age for people to come up to you in the hallway at school and sing "Galileo Galileo", etc., and then they just laugh at you. People have been doing that to him ever since. You know this has turned him mean and wicked.

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