{"id":23332,"date":"2017-07-24T03:37:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T03:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23332"},"modified":"2017-07-24T03:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T03:37:04","slug":"this-is-the-guy-wholl-keep-the-wh-stories-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23332","title":{"rendered":"This is the guy who&#8217;ll keep the WH stories straight?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Anthony Scaramucci has a law degree and a pretty hefty financial pedigree.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, though, he got himself appointed White House communications director over the vehement objections of former press secretary Sean Spicer.<\/p>\n<p>As I scanned Scaramucci&#8217;s record, I got a glimpse into what might have prompted Spicer to quit after Donald Trump installed Scaramucci as communications director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mooch,&#8221; as he is known, seems to have had trouble keeping his own stories straight.<\/p>\n<p>He is known to support gay marriage and strong gun-control laws, two issues that are anathema to Donald Trump&#8217;s political &#8220;base.&#8221; He once raised money for Democratic presidential candidate Barack H. Obama. Mooch backed Scott Walker and then Jeb Bush in the 2016 Republican primary and then threw in with Trump&#8217;s transition after the president was elected.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also said some highly critical things about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I must ask: <em>This<\/em> is the individual who is going to put the White House &#8220;on message&#8221; and seek to avoid the missteps, mistakes and misstatements that have poured out of Trump administration?<\/p>\n<p>Chaos, meet confusion.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Scaramucci has a law degree and a pretty hefty financial pedigree. Somehow, though, he got himself appointed White House communications director over the vehement objections of former press secretary Sean Spicer. As I scanned Scaramucci&#8217;s record, I got a glimpse into what might have prompted Spicer to quit after Donald Trump installed Scaramucci as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is the guy who&#8217;ll keep the WH stories straight?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[540,1863,2025,3688,6796,5246],"class_list":["post-23332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-gay-marriage","tag-gun-control","tag-potus","tag-sean-spicer","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23333,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23332\/revisions\/23333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}