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Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Donald Trump's Epstein Shutdown ‘Doesn't Smell Right': Scaramucci
A memo from the Justice Department and the FBI saying there is no evidence that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was murdered or had a 'client list' for blackmail 'doesn't smell right,' Anthony Scaramucci said on The Daily Beast Podcast. The former Trump White House Communications Director told host Joanna Coles that while he wasn't sold on the idea of a 'client list,' Epstein did keep compromising material on powerful friends. 'I'm not a big conspiracy theorist, but this doesn't smell right to me,' Scaramucci said, before delving into the circumstances of Epstein's death. 'The tape gets erased, the two guards walk away, and then all of a sudden he commits suicide, but he has to do it in a way where it's a lateral suicide,' Scaramucci said. 'He can't hang himself, has nothing to hang on, so he chokes himself at the end of his bed to commit suicide. OK, all right. I'll buy that. Let's say that that's legit and the guards disappeared and there's no tape of the incident.' But Epstein 'had lot of dirt on a lot of people,' according to Scaramucci. 'He was probably ready to talk.' Scaramucci agreed with the FBI and DOJ that there wasn't a 'client list' per se, but a better question would be whether there was a 'social list and a friend list that Jeff Epstein had where he also had kompromat on those people. 'Because we do know from the two criminal investigations of Jeff Epstein that he had a lot of tapes,' Scaramucci continued. 'He had a lot of tapes of people doing things on his island and other places where he lived that were nefarious.' 'So I think it's a parsing of words,' he explained. Scaramucci also knocked the Trump administration for the timing of the memo: the Sunday during a holiday weekend. 'Come on, guys,' he said. 'They're doing that for a reason, you know. Come on.' When asked if the memo was issued to 'protect' Donald Trump, Scaramucci said he didn't know. 'I don't want to be that guy,' he said. 'I'm not [FBI Director Dan] Bongino where I'm speaking into a microphone declaring that he has a client list and he's a total scumbag, and then I get an important role and then I declare he's not. I don't know the answer. I'm not privy enough to the information. So I'm not saying Trump is implicated or not.' Also on the podcast, Scaramucci—who previously detailed why Democrats should try to woo Elon Musk back to their party—explained what may come of his so-called America Party. Whereas figures like Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance won't be able to 'manifest the movement that Trump has created,' Musk should not be underestimated, according to Scaramucci. 'Where will Musk be in that fight? I don't know. But Musk is a very smart guy, and he's a very resourceful guy. And Musk is an engineer. These guys are not engineers,' Scaramucci said of the men in Trump's White House. 'They're politicians. And politicians don't think the way engineers think. And Musk will be 17 chess moves ahead of them.' New episodes of The Daily Beast Podcast are released every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Follow our new feed on your favorite podcast platform at and subscribe on YouTube to watch full episodes.
The Sun
05-07-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
Donald Trump ‘moaned he could not access PORN in White House as computers there were blocked'
DONALD Trump grumbled about his lack of access to porn in the White House, his former communications director has said. The US President moaned he could not watch X-rated films as computers there blocked them. 2 Financier Anthony Scaramucci, who worked for Mr Trump in 2017 during his first stint in office, made the revelation while visiting the UK last month. Mr Trump — who reputedly had flings with porn star Stormy Daniels and a Playboy model — has also discussed death with Sir Keir Starmer, it is reported. During a White House lunch in February, the President quizzed the PM about younger brother Nick, who died of cancer aged 60. According to The Spectator mag, he asked: 'Your brother, Keir…he died…was it a good death?' Instead of replying in full, Starmer steered the conversation back to lowering car tariffs. Sir Keir's team said Trump was 'obsessed with death', it was claimed. The revelations came as Trump — a guest at Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion during his 2016 presidential bid — signed his 'big beautiful Bill' into law. It enacts key parts of his agenda including tax cuts and an immigration purge. US President Donald Trump said Russia just wanted to -keep killing people- and hinted at sanctions after Moscow launched its largest ever drone and missile attack on Ukraine in the three-year-old war- 2
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Scaramucci Says Bitcoin Treasury Trend Will Fade Despite Saylor's Success
Anthony Scaramucci, the founder and managing partner of hedge fund SkyBridge Capital, says the wave of companies adopting a bitcoin (BTC) treasury strategy is just a passing trend. In an interview with Bloomberg, Scaramucci said he expects the approach to lose momentum in the coming months. 'Right now we're having this replicative treasury company idea,' Scaramucci said. 'So, you know, it will fade.' He implied that investors may start to wonder why they're paying extra for a company to hold an asset they could simply buy themselves. The idea of using bitcoin as a corporate treasury asset gained traction in 2021, when Strategy (MSTR), a software developer led by Michael Saylor, became the first major public company to do so. Saylor's aggressive bitcoin purchases turned Strategy into a de facto bitcoin investment vehicle, sending its stock price soaring nearly 3,000% since then. The massive gains drew attention across corporate America and elsewhere. A number of companies followed Strategy's lead, including medical device maker Semler Scientific (SMLR), which announced its own bitcoin treasury strategy in May 2024, and Tokyo-based Metaplanet (3350), which started out as a hotel management company. The trend hasn't been limited to high-profile firms. Smaller companies, often penny-stocks, also jumped in, trying to raise capital or attract investor interest by adding bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to their balance sheets. What began as a focus on bitcoin soon expanded to other digital assets. Some companies opted to purchase ether (ETH) or XRP (XRP) as part of their treasury strategy, pushing the concept beyond its original scope. Scaramucci acknowledged that Saylor's success is unique, pointing to the company's other business lines beyond bitcoin holdings. 'Saylor's case is different, because he's got a couple different products going now,' Scaramucci said in the interview with Bloomberg. 'I'm not negative on the others, because I'm too bullish on bitcoin, but I would just say as an investor, you have to look through the underlying costs associated with each one of these treasury companies.'
Daily Mail
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Ex-Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci makes lame dig at his old boss with bizarre outfit choice
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has made a lame dig at President Donald Trump by wearing a superhero T-shirt. The US military attacked three nuclear facilities across Iran on Sunday, thrusting the country into the Israel-Iran conflict. Trump stunned the world with the strikes and has called for a regime change in Iran, suggesting its current leaders are 'unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN.' Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, 'Iran's nuclear ambitions have been obliterated,' noting the operation was an 'incredible and overwhelming success.' As US officials caution Iran that any attack on US targets would draw an unprecedented response, Tehran has begun preparing to close the Strait of Hormuz in a move that would throw global oil and gas markets into chaos. Scaramucci - who infamously spent just 10 days working for Trump in 2017 before he was fired - and his co-host, BBC presenter Katty Kay, recorded an emergency episode of their podcast 'The Rest Is Politics: US' to discuss the news. During the episode titled 'Trump's Taking Us To WAR,' the former communications director claimed his selection of a Batman shift symbolizes how he feels about the decision to strike Iran. 'I'm wearing my Batman shirt, Katty, intentionally. Remember, we want to be Superman,' Scaramucci said. 'We want to be truth justice and the American way. We want to be Superman. He's our normative myth, but Batman is who we really are. 'Okay, we're dark, we're ugly, we make secretive decisions, we do things that sometimes lead to unexpected.' Scaramucci doubled down on his comparison on his Instagram Stories, posting a video of himself in the gym explaining the meaning behind his shirt. 'I'm wearing Batman today because Superman is who we want to be, but Batman is who we are. We are dark s**t. So that's why I got the Batman on,' the former communications director said. Earlier this month, Scaramucci made a wild claim about California Gov. Gavin Newsom's political future amid his clash with Trump over the immigration LA riots. 'This whole fiasco could make Gavin president,' Scaramucci posted on X. 'Gavin has the guts to stand up to these wannabe authoritarians. I will give him that.' Scaramucci has supported Democrats, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, since his brief tenure in the first Trump White House. In April, Scaramucci predicted the demise of Trump's bromance with Elon Musk while speaking on Welcome to MAGAland podcast. 'I think Musk's a very smart guy... I don't think Musk will be speaking favorably of Donald Trump 12 months from now,' the former White House communication director said. 'I think Elon is between a rock and a hard place. He is in it now, the problem is when you get in it, all types of cognitive dissonance fill your brain with wanting you to stay in it. 'It is very hard to admit the mistake, and I was a Trump supporter, so I had to face it myself. I had to face my ego. I had to face my human frailty... I think Musk's gonna get there.'
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Why President Trump Will Destroy Every Member of His Cabinet
President Donald Trump is set to 'disgrace' everyone in his orbit—from Vice President J.D. Vance to Secretary of State Marco Rubio—until there's no one left to succeed him, former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci predicts. 'Nobody in Trump's cabinet is going to be Trump's successor,' Scaramucci declared on The Daily Beast Podcast. 'He's going to put them all in the wood chipper. He's going to disgrace every one of them.' Case in point: Vance, who was publicly humiliated in February when Trump flatly refused to name him as a potential successor. 'Vance is walking around without any feet because (Trump) chopped up his feet,' said Scaramucci, who served just eleven days in the first Trump administration in 2017. 'He's like the boss from hell, isn't he?' host Joanna Coles proposed. 'Everything you say, he undermines you publicly.' Scaramucci argued that everyone in Trump Cabinet is marching toward irrelevance by selling themselves out in service to a president who demands nothing less than blind loyalty: 'They go and do everything that they're told to do like a good little doggy,' he said. During his first term in the White House, Scaramucci argued there was enough internal pushback—from within the administration, as well as from 'establishment Republicans' in Congress and the Republican National Committee—to keep Trump in check. But now, 'He's like Orange Moses with the unholy tariff tablet.' One of Trump's most dependable lackeys is Rubio, who has taken on the added role of National Security Advisor after Mike Waltz became the sole Cabinet-level casualty of the Signalgate scandal. Once a fiery Trump critic who made fun of the size of Trump's hands, Rubio has pulled off an impressive political transformation—but at what cost? 'He's lost the plot, he has no principles, and he's completely disingenuous,' Scaramucci said of Rubio. So who outside of Trump's circle will take the baton from Trump in 2028—assuming he agrees to pass it on? Perhaps the Trump name will continue to dominate the GOP: Scaramucci observed that Donald Trump Jr. is 'very popular with MAGA,' and 'could get the nomination.' 'But I don't think down deep he really wants to do it,' he added. New episodes of The Daily Beast Podcast are released every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Follow our new feed on your favorite podcast platform at and subscribe on YouTube to watch full episodes.
