TRUMP SACKS COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER 10 DAYS AFTER
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| Anthony Scaramucci |
The White House said he no longer has a role with the administration and CBS News said the former hedge fund executive was escorted from the building. The announcement came just hours after former General John Kelly took over as US President Donald Trump's new chief of staff, whose swearing-in ceremony Scaramucci watched in the Oval Office.
Hoping to turn the page on a tumultuous opening chapter to his presidency, Trump had insisted in a tweet at 5.30am on Monday (Washington, DC time) there was "no chaos" in his White House as he swore in the retired Marine general as his second chief of staff.
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Not long after, Scaramucci, who shocked many with his profane outburst last week against then-chief of staff Reince Priebus, was gone.
Scaramucci had been damaged by comments he made to The New Yorker magazine last week in which he attacked then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, in profanity-laden terms. At a press conference following the announcement, White House spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump felt Scaramucci's comments were "inappropriate for a person in that position". (Scaramucci was officially meant to be sworn in to the role on August 15.)
In the words of the White House announcement, he was leaving because he "felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team". The three-sentence release concluded: "We wish him all the best."
The statement about Scaramucci's departure used the same "clean slate"" language that departing press secretary Sean Spicer used to describe his own reason for resigning the day Trump brought Scaramucci aboard.
Spicer remained in the White House on Monday, saying he was there to assist with the communications transitions.
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