Ex-Trump Pal Scaramucci Defends Trump Telling Stormy Daniels She Reminded Him Of Daughter Ivanka

Former Trump pal and infamously short-lived White House official Anthony Scaramucci. defended ex-President Donald Trump telling  Stormy Daniels she reminded him of daughter Ivanka Trump, as Daniels claimed.

Tuesday morning saw a bombshell go off ahead of the Stormy Daniels hush money-election interference trial, as news broke that Daniels herself would be taking the witness stand.

When court began, Judge Juan Merchan laid out which lines of questioning would be permitted regarding Daniels and Trump — and which would not.

But on Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s branded coverage of the trial, there were still plenty of embarrassing moments from the testimony, including a moment that anchor Dana Bash asked Scaramucci about in real time.

Daniels testified that Trump told her she reminded him of Ivanka. When Bash asked him about that moment, Scaramucci defended the moment as an attempt to be “charming”:

DANA BASH: Anthony, I’m sorry that we keep interrupting you, but this testimony is coming in fast and furious. She testified. I said, she said I, I told you, even you don’t have that power. But then at a different point, he said, that she “reminds me of your daughter because she’s smart, blond, and beautiful, and people underestimate her.”

JAKE TAPPER: That’s what Trump said, to Stormy Daniels.

DANA BASH: That’s what Trump said to Stormy Daniels. So Trump is telling Stormy Daniels that she reminds him of Ivanka Trump. “The way he framed it. It did actually make perfect sense.”

Do you want to comment on that?

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: Well, I mean, listen, I want to I want to be fair to him as well. In a one-on-one setting, I just certainly don’t want him to return to the presidency, for so many different reasons.

But in a one-on-one setting, he tries to be charming and he tries to melt the ice in a situation. So I could totally see him saying something like that.

And I think even people that he goes after, because he’s a little insecure when he meets them face to face, he turns up the charm.

So all of that is indicative to his personality. So again, what she’s saying comes across very true to me. And I don’t think you make up details like that, Dana.

Watch above via CNN’s branded coverage of the Stormy Daniels hush money-election interference trial.