‘That Is a Frightened Donald Trump’: Scaramucci Slams Trump’s Press Conference on CNN

CNN had a post-mortem discussion about former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago press conference on Thursday, and it included one of his former advisors, who called the ex-president “frightened.”

Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s former communications director, analyzed Trump’s body language and answers, which were lengthy but light on the truth. His take on his former boss was that he was “fear-mongering” while “flailing” and that by continuing to speak the way he did, he was only helping Vice President Kamala Harris:

I mean, he spent the whole time talking about fear-mongering. He’s talking about fear on the border, he’s talking about fear in the economy, he’s talking about fear of crime. And so it’s a very fear-based approach. I don’t think any strategist working with him agrees with what he’s doing right now. They’re sitting there cringing, he’s sitting there saying, “Okay, we’re failing, so I’m going to show you how it’s done. I’m going to go out to the press, speak unhinged for 40 minutes to an hour, and I’m going to set everybody straight on what we’re doing.” And so it’s not working.

You know, if I’m a Democrat here, Democratic strategist, please let him go on for another two hours like Benito Mussolini or Fidel Castro. Just let him unwind himself. And so the Harris campaign is actually very smart here, saying little about this and just fact-checking things related to Israel. But I know the president — 71 campaign stops with him, 11 days in the White House, but I did work with them for almost a year. That is a frustrated, and believe it or not, that is a frightened Donald Trump. He’s looking at the poll numbers. And it was a big tell when he does the accordion thing and tells you how great he’s doing in the polls. That’s a big tell for him. He’s not doing well in the polls. He knows that. And so that’s another big lie that he’s saying from that podium. So, you know, let him keep talking. He’ll dig a bigger hole for himself. And people will remember, “Well, I don’t really want to go back to what was going on in this country, 2017 to January of 2021.

Watch the video above via CNN.

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