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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 08:19 PM Mar 2018

Trump complicit with Scaramucci attacks on Kelly

Source: CNN



By Kaitlan Collins and Dan Merica, CNN

Updated 6:48 PM ET, Tue March 6, 2018

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump publicly derided reports Tuesday that chaos is engulfing the West Wing, but in private, the man who thrives on discord seems to be sowing some of it himself.

The President has emboldened Anthony Scaramucci, the boisterous former communications director who was fired after just 10 days, to continue attacking White House chief of staff John Kelly during his cable news appearances, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.

In multiple television segments, Scaramucci has faulted Kelly for the "terrible morale" in the West Wing, at times referring to him as "General Jackass" and suggesting he apologize for his handling of the Rob Porter resignation. According to this source, the President is aware of Scaramucci's criticisms and has not discouraged him from making them. Sources familiar with his thinking say Scaramucci is frustrated with Kelly because he has limited the former communications director's White House access.

"I like conflict. I like having two people with two points of view," Trump said Tuesday when asked about internal strife during a news conference. "I like watching it, I like seeing it."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/06/politics/trump-anthony-scaramucci-conflict/index.html

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Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
2. Trump likes chaos because he personally has no clue ever how to do anything
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 08:22 PM
Mar 2018

so he thinks if he gets people screaming at each other the outcome will benefit him financially

I dont know of another business person who does this no matter how vile they might be, probably why trump has failed at everything he has ever done, gloriously so.

Without the 1.7 billion putin gave him there would not be a trump business standing.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
6. I worked with guys who thrived in chaos and it was really a family dynamic they inherited...
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 08:50 PM
Mar 2018

Last I heard the more talented one who had calmed down had fired his trouble making brother. But they both liked to have a fuck up around so they could justify their monthly fits of rage. It was a tense environment.

Leghorn21

(13,520 posts)
4. Okay. So xxx emboldens that mooching little punk gangster to attack Kelly, but also wants Kelly to
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 08:38 PM
Mar 2018

ease Kush and Ivanka out the WH door.

Stuff ain’t addin up for me, but hey, I’m just killin time waiting for TX ELECTION RESULTS and another round of buttery, oven-baked caramel-covered indictments

chowder66

(9,010 posts)
7. I bet this is how he's complicit with Russia too. He watches others do his dirty work.
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 08:52 PM
Mar 2018

I hope that would be enough to bring down the hammer if that's the case.

duforsure

(11,882 posts)
8. He loves to piss people off
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 09:13 PM
Mar 2018

And thinks they work better mad, and divided. I worked for a guy like him once, and he often admitted he like getting people mad, or pitted against each other, and said he could manage people. When the place closed and transfers were offered no one would take him, and he eventually got a dead end job, then later was run off .

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,433 posts)
9. As for racist Kelly...karma is a $#@#. Next ouster otro racist
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 09:22 PM
Mar 2018

Who sold his soul to the devil years ago ...that would be Sessions. Yet, being publicly ridiculed and humiated isn't enough for them to have some semblance of integrity to resign?

And, prey tell why not resign? Because they both have an agenda ...deport masses of Mexicans/ Hispanics/Latinos; incacerate more Black and Hispanics for the new slave state they been pining for...planning.

One more thing about Kelly, does he really believe that trumpf is going to have his back when he attempts to oust his beloved daughter and son-in-law. If so, he is one grande sonzo!
(sonzo:colloquial for dumbass!)

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