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Civil war in the White House and an even wilder Trump
Civil war in the White House and an even wilder Trump
If looks could kill. There is Anthony Scaramucci going full alpha male:
chest out, shoulders back, thumbs on belt, feet planted solidly apart,
eyes fixed in a deadly stare. There is Reince Priebus, less obviously
macho but with a face like thunder as he glares back, a yawning chasm
between them. Many historic photographs have been taken in the Oval
Office but few have captured mutual loathing so indelibly.
Scaramucci’s first week at the White House was one for the ages. The new
communications director declared war on Priebus, branding him “a fucking paranoid schizophrenic”
in what appeared to be a brazen play for his job as chief of staff –
which, late on Friday, went instead to homeland security secretary Gen
John Kelly. He roared from TV studio to TV studio,
offering his street fighter’s defence of Donald Trump and vowing to take
out leakers. And not least importantly, he seemingly jolted the
president back into his most unfettered, unscripted, offensive and
authentically Trump-like self.
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