Anthony Scaramucci
Once Said It’s ‘Counterproductive’ to ‘Fight Globalization’
by Tony Lee 21 Jul 2017
President Donald
Trump’s new communications director Anthony Scaramucci once tweeted that trying
to “fight globalization is counterproductive.”
In March of 2016, after linking to articles
about Chinese manufacturers moving jobs to South Carolina and
Mexico, he said the “takeaway” from the articles should be: “Trying to fight
globalization is counterproductive. Currencies settle the score & free trade
fosters greater global econ stability.”
Trump’s former press secretary Sean Spicer, who came from
the Republican National Committee and had worked for various GOP establishment
entities, resigned on Friday after Scaramucci officially became the White
House’s communications director. The New York Times‘ Mark Leibovich described
Spicer as someone who, in the pre-Trump era, “represented
a Washington [swamp creature] ‘type’ in good standing: an amiable plodder in
his job as spokesman for the Republican National Committee and a stock
character of the local ensemble.”
Scaramucci’s embrace of globalization may be why Trump’s
chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, reportedly
told Scaramucci
this morning, “Over my dead body will you get this job!!”
Trump won the presidency, shocking the world and the
legacy media, by running on a nationalist platform.
Trump’s win—in addition to other nationalist “political
earthquakes”—has led those who had believed in globalization like a religion to
reconsider their views, as Nikal Saval recently pointed out
after attending this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos.
Scaramucci, who worked for former Florida Governor Jeb
Bush’s and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s failed presidential campaigns, had
some choice words for Trump during the 2016 campaign season.
“He’s a hack politician. He’s probably going to make
Elizabeth Warren his vice presidential nominee with comments like that. It’s
anti-American, and it’s very, very divisive,” Scaramucci said on the Fox
Business Network in 2015, according
to Newsmax, responding to Trump’s comments about hedge fund
managers. ”I don’t like the way he talks about women, I don’t like the way he
talks about our friend Megyn Kelly. And, you know what, the politicians don’t
want to go at Trump because he’s got a big mouth and are afraid he’s going to
light them up on Fox News and all these other places. But I’m not a politician.
Bring it.”
He also reportedly said: “Bring it. You’re an inherited
money dude from Queens County. Bring it, Donald.”
Scaramucci then wondered if Trump was a “Democratic
plant” for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and demanded that Trump “stand here and
prove otherwise.”
According
to the Washington Examiner, “Scaramucci has donated to every single
Democratic presidential nominee since 2000. More than generous, according to
FEC filings, he gave Vice President Gore
$1,000 and Kerry $3,000; He gave Sen. Hilary Clinton, $4,300 and
President Obama, $4,600.”
But since supporting Trump in the general election,
Scaramucci, unlike other anti-Trump Republicans who became full-throated “Never
Trumpers,” has fiercely defended Trump. Scaramucci said on Friday that Trump
frequently reminds of him of his past remarks.
Joshua Green, the author of Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon,
Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency, told MSNBC’s
Katy Tur on Friday that Scaramucci is a “globalist” who has morphed into a
“Trumpist.”
Earlier in the week on Charlie Rose’s show, Green said Bannon’s
prescription for fighting unchecked globalization “is to tear down the global
free-trade system, to close America’s borders, to deport people who are here
illegally, and to curb legal immigration … as a way of privileging American
citizens and reasserting … a cultural identity.” (emphasis added)
World Economic Forum
Mark
Malloch-Brown was an adviser for the World
Economic Forum, a vice chairman for Refugees
International, is a co-chair for the International
Crisis Group, and a global board member for the Open Society Foundations.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Refugees International, Refugees International,
the International Rescue Committee, the Climate Reality Project, the Aspen Institute
(think tank), ProPublica, and the Brookings
Institution (think tank),
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, Christine
Lagarde attended his 2013 wedding reception, Jim Yong Kim was a guest at his 2013 wedding, is a director
emeritus for Refugees International,
a board member for the International
Crisis Group, is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, and a member of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society.
Christine
Lagarde attended George Soros’s 2013
wedding reception, and is a trustee at the World
Economic Forum.
Jim Yong Kim was
a guest at George Soros’s 2013
wedding, and is a trustee at the World
Economic Forum.
Maria Livanos
Cattaui is a board member for the International
Crisis Group, a global board member for the Open Society Foundations, and was a managing director for the World Economic Forum.
Mark J. Carney
is a member of the Bretton Woods
Committee, and a trustee at the World
Economic Forum.
Jack
Ma is a member of the Breakthrough
Energy Coalition, and a trustee at the World
Economic Forum.
Mukesh Ambani is
a member of the Breakthrough Energy
Coalition, and a trustee at the World
Economic Forum.
Marc R. Benioff
is a member of the Breakthrough Energy
Coalition, a trustee at the World
Economic Forum, and was a contributor for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Covington
& Burling LLP was the lobby firm for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, and a board member for the American
Constitution Society.
Christopher
Edley Jr. is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, and was the law school dean for the University of California, Berkeley.
Andrew S. Grove
was a benefactor for the University of
California, Berkeley, and an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.
Kenneth T. Rosen
is a professor emeritus for the University
of California, Berkeley, and was a real estate adviser for the World Economic Forum.
Indra K. Nooyi is
an overseer at
the International Rescue Committee,
and a trustee at the World Economic
Forum.
Rania Al Abdullah
is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and
a trustee at the World Economic Forum.
Albert A. Gore Jr.
is the chairman for the Climate Reality
Project, and a trustee at the World
Economic Forum.
Yo-Yo
Ma is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a trustee at the World Economic Forum.
Paul
L. Sagan is a director at ProPublica,
and was a senior adviser for the World
Economic Forum.
Klaus Kleinfeld is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a trustee at the World Economic Forum, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
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