Newt Gingrich: Scaramucci Needs to ‘Slow Down,’ I Think He’s ‘Full of Himself’
It’s only week one of Anthony Scaramucci in the White House, and things have been, well, interesting. And Newt Gingrich, a defender of President Trump‘s, is a little wary.
The former Speaker spoke to Laura Ingraham on her radio program today and first sounded off the President’s criticisms of Jeff Sessions, saying it would be “an enormous mistake” to fire him.
Ingraham then brought up Scaramucci to get Gingrich’s take on how the first week has gone. Gingrich’s assessment wasn’t the most positive:
“I think that Scaramucci had better be a lot more careful than he has been. He obviously likes the limelight, he obviously likes being in the media. I would say right now he is being more pugnacious than effective. He ought to slow down a little bit and learn what he is doing. I think that he things he said about Reince, if he said them, where is his proof? I mean it’s totally unhelpful to have someone going around starting family fights in public, and if he is going to be that divisive, I’m not sure if he is going to be that useful to the president.”
He even went on to say, “I think Scaramucci is full of himself.”
Gingrich said instead of “talking more than he is thinking,” he needs to realize that his job is to “organize the communications of the President of the United States and help the president communicate with the country.”
You can listen to the full interview here (it starts at the 55:20 mark).
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