Saturday, July 22, 2017

Anthony Scaramucci Once Said It’s ‘Counterproductive’ to ‘Fight Globalization’



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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