Steve Hilton, Anthony Scaramucci battle over Biden support in fiery interview; Trump responds
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Anthony Scaramucci, who was once a Trump supporter and White House communications director, clashed Sunday night with Fox News' Steve Hilton, the host of "The Next Revolution," after he criticized President Trump for essentially failing at every turn in the White House and how there is a need to "re-engineer" the entire Republican Party.
The tense exchange caught the attention of the president late Sunday who dismissed Scaramucci as a "loser" who made a fool of himself.
In his first appearance on Fox News since declaring his support for Biden, Scaramucci, who was fired after just 10 days as White House communications director and has since become one of Trump's fiercest critics, did not mince words when it came to his former boss.
"Number one, the economy is upside down," he told Hilton. "You had 13% unemployment for the African American community.
"Number two, he's [Trump] politicized the science around the pandemic....and the last thing in the most important thing for me, about the Republican Party, we are shrinking, and so in order to expand the tent, we have to reframe and reengineer the Republican Party," he said.
Scaramucci recently teamed up with former officials from the Bush and Trump administrations to launch The Right Side PAC, a super PAC to turn out disaffected Republican voters for the former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee.
The interview took a turn when Hilton pressed Scaramucci over his support for Biden's policy platforms, relating specifically the economy and Biden's plans to uproot the Trump administration's deregulation agenda.
"Let's start with regulation, an important issue for every small, business out there for jobs and growth. In 2016 Anthony you said that regulation is crushing growth. Now you want it much higher than it was then," Hilton said. "Why?"
"That's not what I want," Scaramucci fired back.
Hilton countered, "But it is because you're backing Joe Biden who wants that, too. You're backing those policies. If you don’t want it why are you b... (Read more)
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