'He’s in trouble': Scaramucci says Trump navigates 'vexing' dilemmas using contradictions
Former Donald Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci tried to explain his old boss's longstanding pattern Friday on CNN over the MAGA leader's waffling around whether he'd vote against a measure in Florida that would expand abortion rights.
Trump on Thursday called Florida’s law banning most abortions after six weeks “too short” but he was cagy about whether that would mean he'd vote for an amendment this fall that would enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the state’s Constitution.
A spokeswoman for his campaign walked back his statement shortly thereafter. Trump, said spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, "has not yet said how he will vote on the ballot initiative in Florida," and "simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short."
Scaramucci joined CNN on "The Situation Room" and was asked about Trump's "waffling" on the abortion issue.
"Well he's done a very good job over the last nine years of saying two contradictory things at the exact same time in giving enough food for everybody at the table," said Scaramucci.
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Scaramucci pointed to similar instances in the past, including when Trump's "very fine people" comment following the deadly "Unite the Right" event in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"A day later he denounced it," noted Scaramucci. "This way the people who are gaslit by Donald Trump, they can hang on to those sentences and those words. So that's what he's doing right now. He's shotgunning out statements and words."
Scaramucci said conservatives have called Trump and warned he can't do that, as many pro-life conservatives won't vote for him. Trump, needing every vote in such a tight race, "equivocates," he added.
"He's in trouble. He knows it," Scaramucci said, noting Trump also knows it'll be "very hard" for women — including conservative women — to "give up their reproductive freedoms."
"This is a vexing problem for him right now," he said.
Notably, following Scaramucci's interview, Trump said he would vote against the Florida amendment.
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