Dumping the Trump Train With Anthony Scaramucci

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Tara is joined by former White House director of communications Anthony Scaramucci, and they begin their conversation by detailing the tumultuous circus he witnessed during his short stint in the Trump administration. They then debate why so many people get caught in the Trump web, imagine a Republican future without MAGA, and talk about Anthony’s new book, ‘From Wall Street to the White House and Back: The Scaramucci Guide to Unbreakable Resilience.’ For more of Tara's reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, ‘The Best and the Brightest,’ at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20 Host: Tara Palmeri Guest: Anthony Scaramucci Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Brian Curtis from The Ringer, and I want to tell you about the Press Box podcast.
0:06.0	The Press Box is a podcast for anybody who likes news, whether it's about sports or politics or pop culture and wants to understand how that
0:16.0	news really gets made. We have new shows every Monday and Thursday. We have long
0:20.7	interviews with everyone from John Crackower to Joe Buck.
0:24.0	Your social media feeds are bursting with information every day.
0:27.5	Let us help you sort it out.
0:29.5	Join us on the press box. Hi, I'm Tara Paul Mary. I'm Puck Senior Political Correspondent, and this is Somebody's Gotta
0:57.0	win. We are in watch and wait mode for the jury to make up their decision in the Trump-Hush Money trial.
1:03.6	By the time you hear this podcast, they may have already made a decision and we may have
1:07.4	a former president as a convicted felon, or he may be acquitted and be more politically
1:12.4	powerful than ever before, or maybe he'll be acquitted and be more politically powerful than ever before or maybe he'll be charged on some counts and not others.
1:17.4	It's a wild ride. We really don't know. Just hang in there. So in the meantime, I am going to talk about something that has always fascinated me.
1:26.2	Why would anyone want to join the Trump administration? And I'm putting policy aside or
1:30.5	politics. You can be hardcore right wing magga agree with him on every
1:37.6	policy but it just seems to turn out so poorly for everyone even the ones who say they're going in there to
1:44.7	course correct and stop Trump's worst instincts, as some of the people have said.
1:49.2	It's interesting too because as Trump's political power seems to grow and it seems to be clear that there's a you know at
1:56.1	least 50% chance that he could end up back in the White House people in Washington are already
2:00.6	talking about going back in I was just talking to a former press aid who at one
2:04.8	point begged me not to write about a new job that she had just gotten because she was worried
2:10.7	that if it was revealed that she was a Trump aide, it would hurt her with this new corporate
2:15.8	job. This was the time right after January 6th when Trump was toxic.
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