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Donald Trump aide launches vulgar tirade

Donald Trump's new communications director, launched a foul-mouthed attack on his rival Reince Priebus.

The bitter-infighting among top staffers at White House turned ugly as Anthony Scaramucci, Donald Trump’s new communications director, launched a foul-mouthed attack on his rival Reince Priebus, calling him a “paranoid schizophrenic”, a news report claimed.

Mr Scaramucci, the Wall Street financier who joined the administration last week, had earlier vowed to crack down on leaks from the White House, threatening to fire everyone, if necessary, to stop aides from leaking information.

“Reince is a f****ng paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Mr Scaramucci told New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza on a phone call. The journalist revealed this in a lead story on the news website on Friday.

Mr Scaramucci, he wrote, called him to find out who the source of his information was, about the dinner he had with Mr Trump the other night.

Mr Lizza claimed when he refused to divulge the source of information, Mr Scaramucci got agitated. “I’ve asked people not to leak things for a period of time and give me a honeymoon period,” he said.

Mr Lizza wrote: “He was getting more and more worked up, and he eventually convinced himself Mr Priebus was my source.”

“They’ll all be fired by me,” Mr Scaramucci said, according to Mr Lizza. “I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I’ll fire tomorrow....Reince Priebus if you want to leak something he’ll be asked to resign very shortly.”

Mr Lizza wrote that Mr Scaramucci believed Mr Priebus had been worried about the dinner because he hadn’t been invited. Mr Scaramucci later tweeted: “I sometimes use colorful language. I will refrain in this arena...”

( Source : Agencies )
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