‘Journalists Are Nosy’: Trump Advisor Says It’s Totally Reasonable Not to Want Them Around

Anthony Scaramucci, an informal advisor to President Donald Trump, doesn’t seem to have much use for pesky journalists.

Appearing Tuesday on New Day, Scaramucci defended Eric Trump and Nicole Kushner Meyer against charges that each has been less than fully transparent in recent days. Eric Trump has declined to open up the books of his family’s golf course business after a claim from a golf writer that Eric told him that Russian investors have funded Trump golf construction projects. And a Washington Post journalist was kicked out of a pitch meeting in which Kushner Meyer was courting investors in Beijing to secure U.S. investment visas.

Scaramucci believes that Eric Trump and Nicole Kushner Meyer retain a right to privacy as private citizens. He also thinks that the two were unfairly targeted by the media.

“What I don’t like is every morning we wake up, we take a dozen eggs out, and we say, ‘Okay, who are we going to throw these eggs at today?” Scaramucci said.

Scaramucci then got into it with New Day host Chris Cuomo, who pushed back on the idea that the Trumps and the Kushners have a right to privacy when potential conflict of interest issues arise.

Cuomo: They wouldn’t let journalists into that meeting that they had in China. Why, Anthony?

Scaramucci: Because journalists are nosy and journalists throw the eggs.

Good thing. Good thing they are.

Okay. I’m glad you’re throwing eggs, bro.

I’m not throwing eggs. I’m throwing facts. There’s a difference.

Watch above, via CNN.

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