Anthony Scaramucci to Colbert: 'If it were up to me, Bannon would be gone'
The Mooch also claimed that Steve Bannon was leaking information from the White House
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The short-lived former White House communications director made the surprising choice to appear on Stephen Colbert's The Late Show, pointing the finger straight at Steven Bannon and claiming the White House's top adviser would be gone if he had any say in the matter.
The discussion was sparked by Colbert inquiring about an already infamous photo of Anthony Scaramucci with another ex-White House staff member, former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
"That's a rough photo, right?" Scaramucci replied. It's then that Colbert attempted to carve out a denial or confirmation over whether Scaramucci was brought in to help expel Priebus and Sean Spicer.
"I don't want to say it that way," he offered initially; when Colbert demanded he "give me some Mooch", he finally conceded, "So The Mooch of Long Island would say there's no love lost there. I mean, look at the picture, right?"
"The weird thing about my relationship with Reince is that we were actually pretty good friends when I was a political donor writing checks to the RNC, but once I became part of the administration, or was about to enter the administration, for whatever reason, it was a little more adversarial."
With Priebus gone, a man that Scaramucci had pointed the finger at as responsible for the leaks from the White House, Colbert got Scaramucci to shift his accusation to Bannon as the leaker instead. "Well if it was up to me, he would be gone," he added. "But it's not up to me."
Scaramucci declined to name Bannon as a white supremacist, but did state, "What I don't like, though, is the toleration of it". He also criticised Trump for taking so long to condemn white supremacy in his statements about the violence in Charlottesville, though he tried to claim he was a "compassionate person".
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