Scaramucci: Plotters in WH Working to Eject Trump

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Former White House communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said there are people in Washington trying to topple the US President.

Scaramucci, who was sacked last month after just 10 days on the job, said there are "elements" within the White House trying to "eject" Trump.

"What happens in Washington... is the President is not a representative of the political establishment class, so for whatever reason the people have made a decision that they want to eject him," Scaramucci said.

"I think there are elements inside of Washington, also inclusive in the White House, that are not necessarily abetting the President's interests or his agenda."

When asked to identify the individuals, he said he had already "named some names".

He added that Trump needed to bring in "more loyalists" to carry out his agenda.

During his brief time working for the President, Scaramucci turned the White House upside down. His hiring led to the departures of both Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus, Trump's former press secretary and chief of staff, respectively.

Scaramucci told New Yorker reporter Adam Lizza that Priebus was a "paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac" and accused him of leaking information to journalists. The following day, Trump announced on Twitter that he was replacing Priebus with John Kelly, the Secretary of Homeland Security.

One of Kelly's first tasks in his new role appears to have been removing Scaramucci as communications director.

Scaramucci told ABC on Sunday that he "obviously paid the consequences" for his profanity-laced call to Lizza in which the ex-communications director also bashed White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon as well as Priebus.

"For the record, I thought that was off the record," Scaramucci said, adding that Lizza's decision to record the call was "a very deceitful thing that he did."

Lizza told CNN that Scaramucci did know the conversation was "100 percent on the record."

When asked if he thought he deserved to be fired, Scaramucci said, "Well obviously I wished they would've given me a bar of soap and told me to wash my mouth out in the bathroom and move on."

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