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🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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“The Mooch” was a wildly successful investment banker when he joined Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. He became the White House Communications Director in 2017. Anthony tells Josh about his time in the White House, his relationship with Trump, and what kind of a guy he really is.
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0:00.0 | Gahe, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. It's time for the mooch. |
0:06.8 | The mooch. Is there a more dangerous conversation than to say to a man, why did you go and work for that big, fat idiot, Donald Trump? |
0:17.1 | That's the premise of this conversation, really. |
0:27.3 | The mooch, if you don't recall, was one of a revolving series of cast members of the Trump administration. |
0:35.7 | And subsequently has become – well, even before the administration began, in fact, |
0:41.9 | was probably the most valuable thing to global elites and to money people, |
0:48.4 | which is he was one of them who was a translator of Trump, who straddled both worlds. |
0:50.5 | He wasn't from Trump crazy land. |
0:53.1 | He's a very successful business person. |
0:54.0 | He's a financier. And most recently, he's now a crypto guy. He just got burned by Sam Bankman Freed, the huge crypto titan who turned out to be something of a fraud. Apparently, I mean, he hasn't been convicted yet that the whole edifice, the whole house of cards that Sam Bankman-Fried had constructed collapsed and people left without their shirts. |
1:15.5 | But one of those people is sort of Anthony Scaramucci, but it's also sort of hard to know |
1:22.7 | whether or not he's complete. |
1:24.5 | What side is he on? |
1:25.7 | Is he victim or perpetrator in the whole Sam |
1:27.5 | Bankman-Fried thing? Basically, he and he was, he's a bit of a mentor to Sam Bankman-Fried. |
1:33.9 | The two of them were on top of the world together. Sam-Bankman-Fried bought 30% of |
1:39.4 | of Anthony Scaramucci's company. And the two of them went on a tour around the Middle East, a grand fundraising tour |
1:51.1 | to raise $2 billion for Sam Bankman-Fried so that FTX could buy, which was Sam Bankman |
1:59.2 | Freed's crypto company that subsequently collapsed, |
2:01.7 | so that it could buy distressed crypto. Then the whole thing fell apart. Now, San Bankman-Fried, |
2:07.3 | who's completely broke, owns 30% of Anthony Caramucci's company. So we talk a little bit about that, |
2:14.1 | but it's obviously not the main thing that I want to focus on with this guy. |
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