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July 24, 2017

Sean Spicer Resigns as Anthony Scaramucci Becomes New Communications Director
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In more news from Capitol Hill, Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci
has become President Trump's new communications director, sparking the
resignation of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Scaramucci, who
is nicknamed "the Mooch," has been a vocal critic of Trump in the past
and disagrees with a slew of Trump's policies. He has, for example,
supported gun control, the end of the death penalty, action to mitigate
climate change, and pro-choice policies. He's also called Trump a "hack"
and "anti-American."

Anthony Scaramucci: "He's a hack politician. He's probably going to make
Elizabeth Warren his vice-presidential nominee, with comments like that.
It's anti-American. It's very, very divisive. And I'll tell you who he's
going to be president of-you can tell Donald I said this: the Queens
County bullies association. You've got to cut it out now and stop all
this crazy rhetoric spinning everybody's heads around."

That was Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's new communications director,
speaking on Fox Business Network in August 2015. After Sean Spicer's
resignation, Sarah Huckabee Sanders will serve as press secretary.


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