MSNBC's Joe Scarborough marveled at President Donald Trump's "manic" posting spree on Truth Social after new reporting tied him closer to Jeffrey Epstein, and one of his former aides provided some insight into his public relations campaign to bury the scandal.
The Department of Justice angered the MAGA base by issuing a statement disputing conspiracy theories about the disgraced financier's alleged "client list," and the president has been lobbing political and culture war attacks as he seeks to change the subject after a report last week about a suggestive birthday letter he allegedly wrote to Epstein decades ago.
"As The Bangles once famously sang, 'it's just another manic Monday,'" Scarborough said, "and it was – wow."
The "Morning Joe" host welcomed Anthony Scaramucci, who served a tumultuous 10-day tenure as White House communications director in July 2017, to discuss the president's efforts to change the political narrative.
"You look at all the things he's done over the past 24, 48 hours," Scarborough said, "and I'll have people, you know, with their hair on fire, running around saying, 'Oh, he's doing this to do that,' and I was like, it's a distraction. I mean, it's all again, quoting a lot of people here, as John Lennon once sang, 'it's all show biz.' He's flooding the zone, he's getting people to, I mean, we talked about President Biden, and his story that was put to rest eight – I mean, President Obama and a story that was put to rest in early 2017, and yet we're talking about it for eight minutes off the top of the show today because he's, you know, he's now has his [director of national intelligence] talking about possible arrests or whatever they're talking about."
Trump has been trying to regain control of the news cycle by spamming his social media page, Scaramucci said, but he said those efforts could be complicated if an even more devastating bombshell drops.
"It's very binary, Joe," Scaramucci said. "He wants to win this, and so winning this means that we all move past it, and he's trying to figure out a way to make that happen. He's also in control of that Congress, I mean, it's a full-on personality cult, so they'll do whatever it is that he wants them to do, and so if that includes stalling the Congress."
"But the real question before everybody, is he going to win this one, too? And I think the short answer to that is, yes, this will blow by him as other news comes into the fray, unless you're telling me the Wall Street Journal has some type of atomic bomb information related to this, which I think they would have already divulged," Scaramucci added.
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