Scaramucci: Trump Jr. ‘Got Bad Advice’ About How To Handle Russia Meeting

Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks to members of the media in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci speaks to members of the media in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Sunday said Donald Trump Jr. “got bad advice” about how to handle the fallout and questions surrounding his meeting with a Russian lawyer after he was promised compromising information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian state effort to aid his father’s campaign.

“I didn’t know about the meeting,” Scaramucci said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

He criticized Trump Jr.’s response “from a communications and strategy perspective.”

“I think Donald Trump Jr. got bad advice,” Scaramucci said. “They told him to put out a small statement.”

He called Trump Jr. “a very honest, very high-integrity person.”

“He didn’t do anything wrong. I just think the mistake was in the way it was communicated,” Scaramucci said. “We started with one person, and now we have an auditorium of Russians that he was speaking to or whatever the hell it was. And it’s ridiculous.”

He cited President Donald Trump’s tweet defending his son, a longstanding strategy of White House aides asked for comment.

“A lot of people would have taken that meeting,” Scaramucci said. “I stand by the President’s tweet.”

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  1. That’s what he gets for listening to himself and his father.

    ETA: So, Mooch, how many people were involved in giving this advice, what are their names, and when did they meet? According to Dim Son, the decision was his alone.

  2. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    Clearly, Scaramucci is Trump’s “Mini - Me.”

  3. Junior must have been advised by his dad.

  4. “He got bad advice.”

    It’s never a Trump’s fault. It’s ALWAYS someone else’s. But let’s see how well that philosophy works for Scaramucci when it’s been another two weeks and this whole “Russia thing” still won’t go away.

  5. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    “He didn’t do anything wrong. I just think the mistake was in the way it was communicated,” Scaramucci said. “We started with one person, and now we have an auditorium of Russians that he was speaking to or whatever the hell it was. And it’s ridiculous.”

    “An auditorium of Russians”? Seriously, you’re calling it an auditorium? I thought we were up to “only” eight with four Russians present.

    Mooch, you’re an idiot. Stop helping Junior.

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