What's the shortest, dumbest article to ever win a Pulitzer? Can you win one for transcribing a fifteen minute conversation? Is this the greatest thing I've ever read? It's the greatest thing I've read today, anyway.
"Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background."
(REMINDER: "Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.")
“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.”
(REMINDER: "Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.")
He channelled Priebus as he spoke: “ ‘Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’ ”
(REMINDER: "Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.")
“The swamp will not defeat him,” he said, breaking into the third person. “They’re trying to resist me, but it’s not going to work. I’ve done nothing wrong on my financial disclosures, so they’re going to have to go fuck themselves.”
(REMINDER: "Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.")
Scaramucci also told me that, unlike other senior officials, he had no interest in media attention. “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,” he said, speaking of Trump’s chief strategist. “I’m not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President. I’m here to serve the country.”
(REMINDER: "Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.")
“What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the President’s agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people,” he told me.
He cryptically suggested that he had more information about White House aides. “O.K., the Mooch showed up a week ago,” he said. “This is going to get cleaned up very shortly, O.K.? Because I nailed these guys. I’ve got digital fingerprints on everything they’ve done through the F.B.I. and the fucking Department of Justice.”
(REMINDER: "Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.")
https://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon
