Prior to becoming the President's communications director (a job he had for less than two weeks before being fired), Anthony Scaramucci held some kind of ambiguous position at the agency where I worked. It was obvious that he had been parked there until the Trump administration could find something for him of a more permanent nature - which, as indicated, they were unable to do. I attended a couple of meetings at which he was present; he never had much to say, and I don't know what, if anything, he ever did to earn a paycheck, but he struck me as a fairly typical corporate go-getter, exuding a lot of nervous energy, "smartest-guy-in-the-room" syndrome, champing at the bit to be in charge of
something. He was temperamentally unsuited to serve as any kind of bureaucrat, and I was horrified to learn that he had been put in charge of White House communications - a blissfully short engagement that led to him being tossed out of the administration entirely. My guess is he was just another bored financier who wanted to create some kind of legacy by building a political career (it is alarming how many people there are who think that, just because they have a knack for making money, helping to run the federal government is a milk run).
He now claims to have taken umbrage at Trump's invitation to the "Squad" to leave if they're not happy here, and reportedly is
teaming up with Bill Kristol, of all people, on a mission to bring Trump down. It is not impossible that Trump may lose the election in 2020, but with Scaramucci and Kristol forming an alliance against him, I'd say his chances of victory just got marginally better.
