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Anthony Scaramucci: ‘When I took the Trump job my wife filed for divorce’

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Anthony Scaramucci was the White House communications director for 11 days .

During his brief tenure in charge of presidential comms he called the president’s chief of staff a “fing paranoid schizophrenic” The colourful profanity made the Mooch a household name and national joke.

He went back to his old job on Wall Street and didn’t fall out with the president.

Partly this is down to him starring in a hit British podcast, The Rest Is Politics : US , a spin-off to Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart .

Scaramucci joined Goldman Sachs in 1989 , founded his own investment fund seven years later .

Sold it for a fortune in 2001 and then founded another, SkyBridge Capital , which he still runs.

He first met Trump on Wall Street in the mid-Nineties , and they used to go to Yankee baseball games and charity events together.

When Trump invited him to join his campaign finance committee, he thought the candidate was a joke.

Scaramucci believes Donald Trump will lose on Tuesday night .

He says he will be a dissident force to explain what he's doing and how un-American it is.

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informal

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English

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30

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offensive

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possibly hateful

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