Se não se estivesse a passar na realidade, e na casa do presidente do país mais poderoso do mundo, podíamos dizer que era a série cómica para acabar com todas as séries cómicas: magnífica de tão inacreditável, irrealista, impossível.
“Who leaked that to you?” he asked. I said I couldn’t give him that information. He responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. “What I’m going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we’ll start over,” he said. I laughed, not sure if he really believed that such a threat would convince a journalist to reveal a source. He continued to press me and complain about the staff he’s inherited in his new job. “I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can’t help themselves,” he said. “You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.”
(...)“Is it an assistant to the President?” he asked. I again told him I couldn’t say. “O.K., I’m going to fire every one of them, and then you haven’t protected anybody, so the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks.”
I asked him why it was so important for the dinner to be kept a secret.
Surely, I said, it would become public at some point. “I’ve asked people
not to leak things for a period of time and give me a honeymoon period,”
he said. “They won’t do it.” He was getting more and more worked up, and
he eventually convinced himself that Priebus was my source.
“They’ll all be fired by me,” he said. “I fired one guy the other day. I
have three to four people I’ll fire tomorrow. I’ll get to the person who
leaked that to you. Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he’ll
be asked to resign very shortly.” The issue, he said, was that he
believed Priebus had been worried about the dinner because he hadn’t
been invited. “Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,”
Scaramucci said.(...)
Scaramucci said he had to get going. “Yeah, let me go, though, because I’ve gotta start tweeting some shit to make this guy crazy.”
Minutes later, he tweeted, “In light of the leak of my financial info
which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept
#swamp @Reince45.” With the addition of Priebus’s Twitter handle, he
was making public what he had just told me: that he believed Priebus was
leaking information about him. The tweet quickly went viral.
Scaramucci seemed to have second thoughts. Within two hours he deleted
the original tweet and posted a new one denying
that he was targeting the chief of staff. “Wrong!” he said, adding a
screenshot of an Axios article that said, “Scaramucci appears to want
Priebus investigated by FBI.” Scaramucci continued, “Tweet was public
notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal
leaks. @Reince45.”
A few hours later, I appeared on CNN to discuss the overnight drama. As
I was talking about Scaramucci, he called into the show himself and
referenced our conversation. He changed his story about Priebus. Instead
of saying that he was trying to expose Priebus as a leaker, he said that
the reason he mentioned Priebus in his deleted tweet was because he
wanted to work together with Priebus to discover the leakers.
“He’s the chief of staff, he’s responsible for understanding and
uncovering and helping me do that inside the White House, which is why I
put that tweet out last night,” Scaramucci said,
after noting that he had talked to me Wednesday night. He then made an
argument that journalists were assuming that he was accusing Priebus
because they know Priebus leaks to the press.
“When I put out a tweet, and I put Reince’s name in the tweet,” he said,
“they’re all making the assumption that it’s him because journalists
know who the leakers are. So, if Reince wants to explain that he’s not a leaker, let him do that.”
Scaramucci then made a plea to viewers. “Let me tell you something about
myself,” he said. “I am a straight shooter.”
1 comentário:
Se o Scaramucci entrasse num filme, seria considerado como uma personagem estereotipada e nem no "Lobo de Wall Street" ele pareceria credível.
Só consigo imaginar o Putin rindo-se às gargalhadas.
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