Sarah Taylor
The BlazeMon, 31 Jul 2017 17:21 UTC
The
New York Times on Monday
reported - along with several other outlets - that former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci was hired for one reason and one reason alone: to get rid of former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus.
Scaramucci was removed from his position of communications director on Monday after being appointed just a week prior.
The
New York Times reported that President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner,
encouraged the president to hire Scaramucci as a ploy to force Priebus out of his position as chief of staff.
"Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter, and Jared Kushner, her husband, had pushed the president to hire Mr. Scaramucci, seeing him as a way to force out Mr. Priebus, the former national Republican committee chairman, and his allies in the West Wing," the
New York Times reported on Monday after Scaramucci's White House departure.
Additionally,
Axios claimed that "Jared and Ivanka were instrumental in bringing in Scaramucci, primarily to take out Reince Priebus."
"That was his chief (some might say only) duty," Axios said.
In an update, Axios reporter Jonathan Swan claimed that it was "confirmed" that "Kushner and Ivanka brought in Scaramucci as an instrument of destruction against Reince Priebus."
"He was used as a tool to end Priebus' tenure in the corner office," Swan wrote. "A source familiar with Jared and Ivanka's thinking said they're fully supportive of the general and will follow his lead.
They were irritated by Scaramucci's comments to The New Yorker, but from their perspective, he served his primary purpose: destroying Reince."
About Scaramucci's departure, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that "Scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team."
Comment: Scaramucci was reportedly
escorted off the premises of the White House, which CNN's Brooke Baldwin says isn't necessarily unusual.
Zeleny also intimated that Scaramucci was removed from his position by new Chief of Staff John Kelly, who was displeased over Scaramucci's "lack of discipline."
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The New York Times reported that the decision to remove Scaramucci as communications director came at Kelly's request. President Donald Trump was reported to have given Kelly "full authority" upon him assuming the reins of day-to-day operations at the White House.
According to press secretary
Sarah Huckabee, "the president certainly felt that Anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position."
Comment: Scaramucci was reportedly escorted off the premises of the White House, which CNN's Brooke Baldwin says isn't necessarily unusual. According to press secretary Sarah Huckabee, "the president certainly felt that Anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position."