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Anthony Scaramucci Is Real Cheesed Off (Again) That Something Normal Happened to Him

Anthony Scaramucci during a television appearance at the White House on July 26.

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The Mooch! He came, he saw, he accused the White House chief of staff of a federal crime for allegedly leaking a document to Politico when that document was in fact available to the public, he complained that another top presidential adviser was trying to “suck [his] own cock,” he got fired. Now he’s back! It’s about the “cock” thing, which was reported by the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza:

Linda Tripp was a friend of Monica Lewinsky’s who surreptitiously recorded their private conversations. Ryan Lizza is a journalist who recorded a call he took from Scaramucci that Scaramucci never said was off the record. Recording the call without Scaramucci’s “permission” wasn’t illegal, and regardless, it would be bizarre for a political PR professional—Mooch was the White House communications director at the time, recall—not to realize that an interview with a reporter might be recorded.

Mooch!