Financier who quarreled the entire White House

The main thing is about Anthony Scaramucci - the former opponent of Trump, who became his faithful friend

At the end of July, Donald Trump lost two administration employees: press secretary Sean Spicer and the head of the White House apparatus Rains Pribus retired. Both resignations are associated with the name of the financier with Wall Street Anthony Skaramucci, who during the election campaign first opposed Trump, and then supported the billionaire (and hoped to get a post in the White House for this). "Medusa" tells who the scaramucci is, and why his appointment by the Communication Director quarreled the Trump administration.

Updated July 31, 22:00. Donald Trump decided to fire Anthony Scaramucci 10 days after appointment.

Anthony Skaramucci came to the White House to the post of communications director on July 21, 2017, although he hoped to start working on Trump much earlier. Much (as friends and journalists call him) often voted for the Democrats: he supported Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and at the start of the election campaign actively advocated the victory of Hillary Clinton. Trump, on the contrary, criticized, but he recently deleted the old records with negative statements about the billionaire from his twitter. In August 2015, he called Trump a “anti -American politician” on the air of Fox. When the election race was in full swing, Scaramucci first supported Scott Walker, and then Jeb Bush (he was quickly disappointed in Hillary)-but already in May 2016, Much entered the headquarters of Trump and began to collect donations.

Skaramucci came to Trump’s election headquarters along with another financier with Wall Street Steve Mnachin, who was never shy to say that he agreed to work for a billionaire for the sake of a place in a white house. Mnachin received this place, he is now the Minister of Finance, but Scaramucci remained overboard.

Against his appointment, the head of the administration of Trump Rains Subus protested for any position. He is a long -standing and faithful functionary of the Republican Party, which was supposed to build the work of the entire Trump apparatus and provide the billionaire with reliable support for the moderate wing of the Republicans (it originally reacted with a wary of the new president). Neither one nor the other succeeded: as Vox writes , the president did not trust him, constantly reminded that he recommended the billionaire after the next scandal to leave the election race, and even came up with a mocking nickname - Rainsey.

Subus pointed out that Scaramucci had no political experience, he is unknown among the political elite, but he is well known to Wall Street as a hard and grip de deer. One of the main claims of the enthusiasm is that Scaramucci sold his Skybridge Capital investment fund to the Chinese under extremely dubious circumstances. Thus, the unknown Chinese entrepreneur invested in an American charity package of assets of $ 18 billion from the very Chinese company that Scaramucci sold the Fund. The financier sold the investment fund three days before Trump's inauguration - obviously, waiting for the then appointment to the White House. Now the Skaramucci fund is being checked by the US authorities.

The activities of the Scaramucci Foundation are a separate mention. This is the so-called “fund of funds”, which allows not fabulously rich people to access hedge funds, which they could not invest in in a normal situation. Skybridge invited customers to earn money in the whole pool of hedge funds and took a commission for their services; Such investments, unlike a contribution to some one fund, are considered unreliable and meaningless, because on average the indicators of hedge funds are lower than the stock market. In addition to the fund, Scaramucci was engaged in the organization of a large Salt conference and managed to attract extremely influential politicians and businessmen - from Joe Biden to the head of Alphabet Eric Schmidt. Thanks to this conference, Scaramucci acquired a large number of influential friends and became a frequent guest on the air of television programs about the economy and financial markets.

Scaramucci has no experience with the press, he never did anything but financial transactions in large banks Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs. Nevertheless, Trump appointed him the director of communications (the previous one lasted only three months), and he should have reported on work personally before the president, and not to the head of the administration of the enthusiasm. The White House spokeswoman Sean Spicer quit on the same day-in the American press they wrote that he was initially abruptly against the appointment of Scaramucci and was not going to work under his leadership. Before that, Spicer made a lot of mistakes, quarreled with the press gun of the White House and often lied in statements, but he decided to leave his post only after the appointment of Scaramucci.

A few days after the entry into the new position of Scarmucci, he had dinner in the company of Trump, his wife Melania, the TV presenter Fox Sean Hanniti and the former top manager of the same television company Bill Shain. The meeting about the meeting with reference to his own sources was written by the journalist of The New Yorker Ryan Lizza. The next day, Scaramucci called the journalist in anger and began to demand to give out a source. The newly -minted official was confident that it was Rains Pribus, his main fire in the White House, “merged” information about the meeting; A little earlier, Scaramucci accused the same entity of transferring data on his condition to reporters, which were actually in the public domain.

In a conversation with the journalist Scaramucci did not restrain himself. “I'll fire them all. I fired one recently, and I will quit three or four more people tomorrow. I will get to who leaked it to you. <...> Rains - fucking [ scaramucci used a more rude word - approx. “Medus” ] paranoid schizophrenic, paranoid, ”he said. Scaramucci threatened everyone in the White House, who told reporters, criminal prosecution and promised to set the FBI and the Ministry of Justice on them. In the end, he said extremely negatively about Trump's main strategist Steve Bannone. The journalist’s story about this conversation on The New Yorker read more than four million times. The day after the release of this text, the outlet quit, his place was taken by the retired General John Kelly, who led the Ministry of National Security.

Two weeks before the appointment of Scaramucci, his wife Deidre Bell left him. The 38-year-old woman was in the ninth month of pregnancy. According to tabloids, Bell is tired of the fact that her husband does not think about anything other than politics. According to rumors, in conversations with friends, she called Scaramucci “the sink of Trump”, she did not like Washington and the world of great politics, and she was tired of ridicule and calling her husband. The spokesman for Scarmucci claims that the couple broke up about six months ago, and that now the financier is "meeting only with the White House."

Pavel Borisov