CNBC host Joe Kernen confronted former White House director of communications Anthony Scaramucci Friday about his public criticism of his former boss, President-elect Donald Trump.
Scaramucci has made several public warnings and criticisms about the president-elect, including accusing Trump of being a fascist and of talking about non-white immigrants in a “dehumanizing kind of way.”
Kernen confronted Scaramucci on these criticisms by accusing him of going against his own beliefs to support Trump’s unpopular opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
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“The rhetoric got heated otherwise. You got pretty heated, Anthony, at times … Anthony, you have had an utter disdain for Trump, you will always be welcome at the table of legacy media and have people nodding as you trash Trump, that’s always going to happen,” Kernen said. “But aren’t you the slightest bit embarrassed or at least humbled about how wrong you were about the feeling of most Americans, let me finish, for enthusiastically supporting a candidate [Vice President Kamala Harris] who a majority of people thought had no business being anywhere near the Oval Office, and you’re a Republican, you saw all the different policies she was talking about are anathema to what you thought your whole life, and yet you went along with it.”
“Joe, first of all, I immediately put out a congratulatory tweet. They won, we lost and in the immortal words of Barry Diller when he lost the Paramount deal, ‘next year.’ What would you like me to do? Do you want me to get on a bended knee before you? That’s not gonna work,” Scaramucci replied.
Scaramucci claimed he has witnessed the “ugliest” traits of Trump after working for him in the previous administration and suggested that Kernen is ignoring the president-elect’s flaws.
“I think he’s been very good for your career, Anthony. I think he’s been incredibly good. You’re here, are you not? And you’re gonna be welcome anywhere you want to go. I think he’s been very good for you, and you have to live off this for another four years,” Kernen said.
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“Joe, why don’t you calm down a second? We’ve known each other a long time. Are you saying that you and I can’t disagree on somebody’s personality? Is that what you’re saying? And you’re saying what I’m saying in terms of identifying those features and traits of the personality. You don’t see those too but you’re choosing to ignore them?” Scaramucci said, leading Kernen to say that most Americans believed policy positions were more important.
Scaramucci claimed that Trump called on using the military to attack his political opponents, namely Democratic California Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. The president-elect called on using the U.S. military if political unrest arose following the election.
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Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, John Kelly, told The New York Times and The Atlantic in late October that the now-president-elect reportedly behaved like a fascist, praised former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and wanted generals like the Nazi dictator. The Trump campaign, along with some of his former staffers, denied these claims.
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First published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.