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Anthony Scaramucci on Trump, Biden, and SBF

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4.717 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Skybridge founder and former White House communications director weighs in on presidential politics and more.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to At Barron's. I'm Andy Surwer and welcome to our guest, Anthony

0:08.8

Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of Skybridge, the Wall Street firm. Great to see, Anthony.

0:14.6

Great to be here. Thank you. And congratulations on everything you're doing. Thank you very much.

0:18.9

So you're ready to dive right into presidential politics?

0:21.6

Let's do it.

0:22.6

Okay, here's the question.

0:24.6

How is it possible that Donald Trump won't win?

0:28.6

I mean, he's leading in all the polls.

0:30.6

Well, we have 12 months to go here-ish, and so let's just say that every day in presidential

0:40.2

politics is like 10 years.

0:42.0

And so I can take you back to November of 2016.

0:47.5

On October 7, 2016, we had the Access Hollywood situation.

0:52.5

I was on the campaign.

0:53.8

People said he was finished.

0:55.1

Reince Previs told him to drop out of the race.

0:57.9

Two days later, he went to St. Louis and did quite well in that debate.

1:02.0

And 30 days later, he won the election.

1:04.1

So we have things changing very, very abruptly.

1:07.4

If the election was held today, he probably would win the election. There's

1:10.9

concern about President Biden's health, his age, the dexterity that he has now,

1:16.6

the concerns about the war. People typically like change when they feel

1:20.2

financial anxiety. I think even though the economy is quite strong, most of the

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