'I will take dramatic action': Scaramucci threatens to chop staff if White House leaks don't stop

[Doug the Dem]

Source: CBC News

Posted: Jul 23, 2017 12:17 PM ET Last Updated: Jul 23, 2017 1:00 PM ET

U.S. President Donald Trump's new communications director says he will take "dramatic action," including cutting staff, if leaks originating from the administration don't stop.

In his first round of media interviews since his press conference after being named to one of the top jobs in Washington, D.C., Friday, Anthony Scaramucci told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that he plans to tackle head-on the "high level of unprofessionalism" at the White House.

"We got to get the leaks stopped," said Scaramucci, a Harvard-educated former Wall Street investment banker. "I am a business person, and so I will take dramatic action to stop those leaks.

"I'm going to be very, very clear with people. If the leaks don't stop, I'm going to pare down the staff because it's just not right ... it's not fair to the president. It's actually not fair to America or the people in the government."

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-anthony-scaramucci-tweets-1.4218092

---

Good luck with that, Tony!

[teach1st]

1. Only the best

the "high level of unprofessionalism" at the White House

Whose fault is that? Sheesh!

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. Yay!!! He's going to start at the very top. Good!

uhhh..He is communication director and somehow already sounding like Co-President.

We should all tweet to Trump how much we like the handsome intelligent new hire.
Daily.
Give it 30 days of Mooch rising star power and he will be out.

[Virtual Burlesque]

35. Scaramouche can find the main reason for the leaks smelling up the oval office. n/t

[Iliyah]

2. The threats will spill over to average USA's citizens.

The authoritarian, dictator . . . t-rump. But alas, Democracy will prevail.

[xxqqqzme]

3. If it wasn't for leaks

we would know nothing about this cabal.

[Sunlei]

4. pare down the staff!! Bannon & Scaramucci can serve trumps lunch on odd/even days.

[Docreed2003]

5. Whelp...one of the first he needs to fire then is one John Barron

I'm convinced half of "the leaks" are him shedding light on how nuts things are, just so he can go on Twitter and bitch about leaks!

[Catmusicfan]

6. Before we laugh is this a hint to Priebus that he should have left with

Spicy because Scaramucci is Chief of Staff in all but name only.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Scarymoochy thinks he is WH Chief of Staff. Perhaps Priebus has a different opinion. . . . nt

[DetlefK]

8. Less staffers is the answer! The WH will run as smooth as the State Department and the EPA!

[ChazInAz]

9. Sign in Saramouch's office:

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

[dawnie51]

10. Dump can't have anyone about....

who isn't related/indebted to him. As in New York. A carefully picked few that he can bully or threaten. All these "government employees" have to go. They don't have the right subservient attitude. Moochi is just a mini me; a fast talking used care salesman and bullshit thrower, or in other words, who Dump used to be 30 years ago.

[Botany]

11. When did the mooch become chief of staff?

I thought that was Rinse Penis' job?

[dchill]

33. It is rumored he's up next in that position!

Seriously.

[FigTree]

12. I see a little silhouetto of a man,

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Incidentally, scaramucci, "a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened".
In line with the main character of this tragicomedy.

[dchill]

34. Spare him his life, from his monstrosity.

Galileo Figaro.

Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me.

[OldRedneck]

13. And . . .

. . . after he has chopped of a few heads and the leaks don't stop . . . then? I'll bet he hasn't thought that far ahead.

The national sport of DC is NOT football, baseball, basketball, soccer, or buzkashi. It's LEAKING and the town is filled with world champions!!!

[Doug the Dem]

18. Hey! I'm a Hockey Fan!

UPDATE:

Donald Trump’s new communications director has called leakers of confidential White House material “un-American” and promised to take “dramatic action” to stop such information reaching the press.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/23/scaramucci-white-house-leaks-unamerican-trump

It ain't un-American if the president you're leaking about is a traitor!

[pablo_marmol]

25. "Hey! I'm a hockey fan!"

Nice to see there are a few of us here!

[Doug the Dem]

39. More than a few, I suspect

I've seen many avatars with the Penguins, or Rangers, or the generic hockey player.

[C_U_L8R]

14. Thunderbolts and lightning

Very very frightening (not)

[bora13]

15. what's fair?

hey yo, hey yo, hey yo, hey yo!

It's Dear Boy here.

It's actually not fair to America or the people in the government to withhold evidence of a treasonous crime.

[forgotmylogin]

16. Yeah, fire those leakers!

No better way to completely take the reins off what they will say.

[Nitram]

17. Perfect! Paranoia and den moralization guaranteed. Sit back and pass the popcorn.

They will fire the wrong people and the leaks will continue.

[Maxheader]

19. "high level of unprofessionalism"

Sucker wouldn't know professional
if it bit him on his ass...

[thecrow]

20. Cutting off the nose to spite the face, are we?

Bring it on. With each day His Orangeness becomes more and more isolated and paranoid to boot.
I like the suggestion near the top of the Mooch and Bannon serving lunch to the big baby on alternate days.
It could get to that, but I hope Congress will stop it long before then.
Could this get any more weird?

[Stinkfoot007]

21. Leaks are an integral part of how Washington functions

Thank God for the Leaks...where would we be without them.

[rocktivity]

23. Yeah, like he's never leaked or had anything leaked hiimself.

roktivity

[6000eliot]

22. Didn't they have trouble getting THESE people?

Where are they going to find replacements?

[truthisfreedom]

24. Translation: "We admit the leaks are all true. Shit."

"We wish we could falsify everything all the time."

[sharedvalues]

26. Best way to handle Trump liars: ignore them.

Who is Scaramucci?

[defacto7]

27. So again, what are you and the administration afraid of?

I don't think there's anything legal that the public wants to hear, only the lies, deceptions, collusion, and the viability of the president. The rest stays quiet.

[dmoyer]

28. Mooch

[AgadorSparticus]

30. Holy crap. As if this WH needs more backbiting from its own.

Yea. Scaramucci is a real good fit....for tv ratings.

Within 72 hrs, he has managed to throw his boss under the bus. I give him 2 months before he suffers a good flesh wound from the peanut gallery up in the house.

[NanceGreggs]

31. One of the funniest things

… to come out of this misadministration is the fact that people like The Mooch still think anyone takes them seriously.

FFS, what next? Tony’s going to threaten to turn the car around and take us all home if we don’t stop fuckin’ around in the backseat?



Yo, Tony – here’s what you need to know going in, just so there are no misunderstandings down the road.

No one takes you seriously – no one.. You are just another lyin’ fuck who will say or do anything for a buck.

No one takes your “pResident” seriously – or his VP, or his AG, or his dumbass kids, or his “trusted advisors”. So if you think anyone takes you seriously, you might want to check out the hierarchy and acknowledge just how low down you are on the laugh-o-meter.

[mdbl]

38. Well put

Thanks!

[Stinkfoot007]

40. Totally agree

+1

[dchill]

32. 'I will take dramatic action'

Scaramooch and KA Conway will do a joint presser where they perform their rendition of the classic John Travolta/Olivia Newton John duet "You're the One that I Want," from "Grease."

THAT'S dramatic action! And it also is actually in their authority to do so.

[Paladin]

36. Great, because this White House needs a lot more melodrama. (nt)

[mdbl]

37. Can he fire Trump?

That would be his main source of leaks - to the Russians anyway.