Scaramucci fires assistant press secretary Michael Short, offers amnesty to others

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Newly appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said on Tuesday that he plans to dismiss assistant press secretary Michael Short.

It would be Scaramucci’s first step toward shaking up the communications shop, which has been dominated by former Republican National Committee staffers loyal to White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, a former RNC chairman. Scaramucci warned that Short would be the first of many, if he’s not able to stop the leaks coming out of the communications and press shop.“I’m committed to taking the comms shop down to Sarah [Huckabee Sanders] and me, if I can’t get the leaks to stop,” Scaramucci told POLITICO.

During his first day on the job on Monday, Scaramucci met with current communications staffers and warned about leaks coming from the office. “I offered amnesty in the meeting, but that decision is above my rank,” Scaramucci said. Short is expected to be the first of a wave of staffers closely aligned with Priebus to be shown the door.
He was closely aligned with press secretary Sean Spicer, who resigned on Friday after Scaramucci was appointed to the communications role. He was scorned by many of his colleagues for quitting the Trump campaign, only to rejoin as a White House staffer because of Priebus.

In a story often retold by campaign staffers, they arrived at Trump Tower one morning, months before the election, to see Short’s computer left open on his otherwise empty desk. He had quit the campaign that day and never returned.The next time he was seen by former campaign staffers was in January on their first day in the White House, where some were stunned to learn that they were going to have to work alongside him or for some of the press assistants subordinate to him.

Scaramucci said in remarks to reporters Friday that he couldn’t guarantee who will remain in the press shop, aside from social media director Dan Scavino and communications strategist Hope Hicks, both longtime aides to President Donald Trump. He’s also named Sanders to succeed Spicer as press secretary.

Spicer was in the White House on Monday but spent most of the day alone in his office, according to people who were in the building.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/anthony-scaramucci-changes-white-house-communications-office-240928

[HAB911]

1. K&R

[Blue_Tires]

2. So who the fuck does he fire when everybody is gone

and the leaks still come?

Link to tweet

[HipChick]

3. I thought he didn't start till late Aug?

[GoCubsGo]

4. Amnesty? WTF?

[lindysalsagal]

5. He's admitting the "Leaks" come from only the comm. office.

And nowhere else. Wonder if that's even true, but if it is, he's blaming the RNC staffers.

This is an attack on the RNC. VERY interesting.