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Less than two weeks before Anthony Scaramucci broke up with President Trump, the former director of communications at the White House held a dinner in Manhattan with Donald Trump Jr. with the goal of impressing customers of his company.
The meal, described in Washington Examiner by three sources, adds the intrigue to the timely timing of Scaramucci's statement that Trump is "unstable" and unfit for a job.
Some sources have found it odd that Scaramucci asks Trump Jr. to help promote a business – and, according to one account, repay the favor with fundraisers by 2020 – just days away before pledging to rally former officials against Trump.
The dinner was held on July 30 at the Hunt & Fish Club, a Scaramucci condo near Times Square. The financier, fired after 11 days at the White House in 2017, invited Trump Jr. to be the guest of honor at a monthly rally for another company. He is co-owner of Strategic Worldviews, launched this year with his partner Robert Wolf, former adviser to the Obama administration.
The company offers economical information via phone calls to people who pay for its services. Scaramucci and Wolf say the calls offer a balanced bipartisan vision of economists and invite subscribers to monthly dinners with political celebrities such as Trump Jr.
"It was just a normal dinner of 20 people sitting around a table with Anthony welcoming Donald," said a source who attended the dinner.
"Mooch was only deferent … it's just weird, what changed in two weeks?" another source said.
Scaramucci told Trump Jr. that "we should organize some fundraisers" for the Trump 2020 re-election campaign, according to a third source. He declined to comment by a spokesman, including on the statement that he allegedly offered to organize fundraisers for Trump's reelection.
He largely defended Trump after his dismissal in 2017, but also issued harsh criticism, saying, for example, in mid-July, that Trump's attacks against four non-white congressional women suggest that he could be "becoming" a racist.
After dinner with Trump Jr., critics intensified. On August 8, Scaramucci told MSNBC that Trump's visit to El Paso, Texas, after the massacre, was a "disaster." And spurring Trump's rage, Scaramucci said when he appeared on August 9 at HBO's Bill Maher show that Trump had done "some things" that "are absolutely indefensible".
Trump retaliated on August 10 on Twitter, saying that Scaramucci was "totally unable" to be director of communications at the White House and "would do anything to come back".
….. other than the fact that this administration probably did more than any other administration during its first two and a half years of existence. Anthony, who would do anything to come back, should remember the only reason he goes on TV, and it's not to be the Mooch!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
August 11, 2019
Scaramucci, in turn, said that Republicans should consider choosing a different candidate in 2020 and drafted a Washington Post op-ed, claiming that Trump was "unfit to hold a position". When the former Trump supporter changed, he would have attended the birthday party of former President Bill Clinton last weekend at Martha's Vineyard, where his commercial partner resides Wolf.
The sources were divided as to whether Scaramucci's decision to house Trump Jr. is indicative of a lack of sincerity in his current attacks.
"I think he's sincere, I would like to hope," said one person at dinner.
A different source, however, viewed Scaramucci's attacks against Trump as "responding to Trump's embarrassment of choice" on Twitter. "You're not going to propose organizing fundraisers for" this guy has to go "in 10 days – not if you're sincere," said the source.
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