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Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci has called for Donald Trump to be arrested for violating the "conditions of his bail agreement" following the former president's comments about Liz Cheney.
At an event in Glendale, Arizona, on October 31, Trump was asked by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson about his thoughts on Harris surrogate Cheney, to which Trump responded: "She's a radical war hawk. Let's put her with the rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face."
Scaramucci, Trump's 11-day-long press secretary, posted to X (formerly Twitter) in response to these comments saying: "Trump should be taken into custody. He is a convicted felon and just violated the conditions of his bail agreement by threatening someone's life. He needs to be sent away."
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Scaramucci expanded on what he meant by his comments on X in the podcast The Rest Is Politics: U.S: Has Harris pulled ahead, cohosted with Katty Kay.
"One could argue that it could potentially have violated his parole agreement," he tells Kay. "He's out on bail. He's a convicted felon in the state of New York, but they said, OK, you're out on bail until your sentencing, which is November the 26th, but you have to sign a parole agreement, which basically says you won't threaten the lives of anybody...You won't break into a store. You won't commit a crime. You won't threaten somebody's life."
Trump was convicted in May on 34 felony counts of attempting to illegally manipulate the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, which he won, by falsifying business records to conceal potentially damaging "hush money" payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
While sentencing in the case had originally been scheduled to take place in July, New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan postponed the proceedings until September 18 amid uncertainty regarding the effect that the Supreme Court's immunity ruling might have on the case. This was later delayed until November 26, but Trump's lawyers sought further delays. Trump still maintains his innocence in the case and says he is the victim of a political witch hunt.
Newsweek has emailed Scaramucci for comment. The former Trump employee, who has a Harvard Law School degree, has campaigned against Trump during the election, branding him unfit for office.
In a previous podcast Scaramucci said Trump had lost his will to fight. And he has consistently supported Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for the presidency after she stepped in for Joe Biden. He even highlighted a joke about Donald Trump's "tiny hands" in another podcast.
After being fired by Trump on July 31, 2017, Scaramucci supported his reelection campaign until August 2019, and since then has disavowed his support for the former president. Scaramucci founded the Right Side PAC alongside other Republicans in June 2020 in an effort to encourage voters in swing states to support other candidates.
He also criticized Trump's behavior at Arlington cemetery in another X post and voiced his condemnation of Trump's alleged altercation with a staff member at the cemetery during an interview on CNN.
Scaramucci worked in investment banking prior to his career in politics, and his work as the White House communications director is one of the shortest tenures in history, tied with a member of former president Ronald Reagan's staff, according to NBC.
Trump is also under bail restrictions set by the state of Georgia due to the investigation into his alleged criminal attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump denies any wrongdoing in the case.
Update, 11/3/24, 4.52 a.m. This article was updated with additional information.
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