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I've forgotten, did Spicer lawyer up?

the post home page looks very festive right now. they just published their "she was the spy lawyer" story.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/lawyer-who-met-with-trump-jr-had-russian-intelligence-connections/2017/07/21/f46e733a-6e24-11e7-abbc-a53480672286_story.html

caek otm

Spicey probably not criminally involved w any of the Russia crap - now he can go write a tell-all, join Fox News as a commentator etc. Dude is set.

Statement coming on Spicer from WH, and there will be a briefing today. Unclear by whom.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 21, 2017

spicer didn't join the team until december. he seems to have been largely out of the loop (on everything) xp

can't wait for trump's magnanimous comments on spicer

I don't get why scaramucci would have any interest in taking that job

And I mean, if even Bannon is complaining about this guy, you gotta wonder.

. @seanspicer out after objecting to @Scaramucci as WH coms dir. Priebus and Bannon also strongly objected. https://t.co/Db2zgyLJF5

— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) July 21, 2017

I guess I don't understand anybody who works at the WH so never mind

scaramucci was a fundraiser for obama back in 2008 apparently so maybe that's why they all hate him

Spicer has GOT to be getting flooded with offers for writing a tell all about these six months in a leaky boat

Surely not a coincidence that the first email I get after Spicer bails has the subject line "Leprous available for interviews!"

figures the only remotely likeable person in this entire admin would be gone in 6 months.

blast from the past

http://www.businessinsider.com/senators-seek-investigation-of-scaramucci-russia-meeting-2017-1

so many russian skeletons :)

Trump has been enamored with Scaramucci since he managed to get a retraction from CNN on a story published in late June about his alleged Russia connections, according to a one senior administration official and one outside adviser.

ah ok so that's why

whatevr

spicer was remotely likeable? very confused now.

holy shit re: Spicer gone.

The perfect guy to have around!

Scaramucci, 2015: Trump "very divisive,” campaign will “implode,” he'll only be head of Queens Co. Bully Association https://t.co/PfZZnuAVQr

— Oren Kessler (@OrenKessler) July 21, 2017

xxp idk I thought so. he didn't seem evil or corrupt like the other guys did, just kind of a normal idiot who'd stumbled into an impossible job that forced him to say dumb things.

This video of Sean Spicer speaking English to the best of his ability still destroys me pic.twitter.com/k0r3nqemJy

— Caity Weaver (@caityweaver) July 21, 2017

The new White House communications director's first tweets about Trump. pic.twitter.com/xWJehcFaEj

— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) July 21, 2017

Congratulations Sean Spicer. You've got more guts than Jeff Sessions!

— Maxine Waters (@MaxineWaters) July 21, 2017

spicer was remotely likeable? very confused now.

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, July 21, 2017 11:30 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's like that thing where you're grievously injured after a severe accident and the arm with a compound fracture and three missing fingers is the only remotely usable limb because all of the others have been ground to a pulp.

I do like this bit from the Politico story:

Scaramucci's expected appointment has caused great upheaval in the West Wing, with chief of staff Reince Preibus and chief strategist Steve Bannon — along with Spicer — expressing opposition to him getting the high-profile job.

"This was a murdering of Reince and Bannon. They said Anthony would get this job over their dead bodies," said one top White House official.

One can dream...

Btw Trump is clearly a pussy when it comes to actually firing people. All he does is pressure them to resign.

I can't remember a recent president who wasn't afraid of firing people.

Roffle

Reince Priebus tells @DanaBashCNN he supports Anthony Scaramucci "100%." "All good here."

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 21, 2017

yeah, but firing people is Trump's claim to fame.

in Trump's case it's particularly acute because at this point anybody he fires can turn around and testify against him in exchange for immunity and basically destroy him

Scaramucci seems well adjusted. pic.twitter.com/fJlfJoqAAt

— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 21, 2017

Combine that with Mnuchin and his own DC thing (as it were) and hey.

Completely true

Six months ago today pic.twitter.com/OmMqkIWRkJ

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 21, 2017

I'd never thought about this angle before, but...isn't firing someone kind of a tacit admission that you made a mistake in hiring them in the first place? A declaration of fallibility? Of weakness, of sadness?

Superman wouldn't think twice about punching that fucker in the face, let's be real

Trump's next stop - attack house Harkonnen!

They're shook or something

BREAKING: Sarah Huckabee Sanders to conduct 2p White House press briefing today, on camera for first time in 22 days.

— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) July 21, 2017

I don't know how many non-New Yorkers will recognize the name, but the only thing that surprises me about Trump is that he hasn't added Joe Tacopina to his legal team yet.

Wonder if going back on camera is Scaramucci's first directive.

idiot or intentional obfuscator (and i think he was both), spicer was the mouthpiece and apparatchik for the most corrupt american leadership in living memory; he can get up against the wall with the rest of them

WH insider tells me-Bannon told Scaramucci this morning. "Over my dead body will you get this job!!" somebody better check Bannon's pulse

— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) July 21, 2017

bags of mayonnaise don't have pulses iirc

bags of mayonnaise don't have pulses iirc

Leave one out in the sun long enough it might start to pulse.

haberman had a cryptic tweet this morning

Statement is likeliest to come from Priebus. At least one other departure of someone from Trumpworld of longstanding may take place

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 21, 2017

please be bannon

White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigns

his appearance, particularly his suits, reportedly criticised by Trump

Like the headline.

2 senior Trump officials tell @lachlan / me along w/ Priebus, Bannon, Spicer: Sarah Sanders also against The Mooch: https://t.co/JEoDmNMahu

— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) July 21, 2017

Also -- Sanders not a fan? Should be a REAL fun press conference, then. Maybe she'll resign on camera.

Twitter sure does dig up funny things

We (the USA) has 5% of the world's population but 50% of the world's guns. Enough is enough. It is just common sense it apply more controls

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) August 6, 2012

here we go, here we fucking go

Lisa Murkowski says she's meeting with CMS to go over Alaska-specific numbers on health care later today

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) July 20, 2017

Also!

You can take steps to combat climate change without crippling the economy. The fact many people still believe CC is a hoax is disheartening

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) March 11, 2016