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Are Major Changes Coming to Donald Trump's Campaign? | Pivot

August 13, 2024 / 22:52

This episode features Anthony Scaramucci discussing Donald Trump's current political state, his campaign strategies, and the dynamics within the Republican Party. Key topics include Trump's alleged meltdown, his relationships with advisors, and the implications of his recent behavior.

Scaramucci describes Trump as being in a "rolling meltdown," highlighting the challenges he faces with his campaign and the shifting demographics of voters. He discusses the influence of figures like Mike Pompeo and Mitch McConnell, who, despite their disdain for Trump, continue to support him.

The conversation touches on Trump's temper tantrums and his reliance on outdated campaign tactics, which Scaramucci argues are ineffective with today's electorate. He also mentions Trump's interactions with advisors and the internal conflicts within his campaign.

Scaramucci predicts potential changes in Trump's campaign strategy, including the possibility of him stepping down if he feels threatened by legal issues. He emphasizes Trump's desire for power and attention, suggesting that these motivations could drive his decisions in the coming months.

Finally, Scaramucci offers advice for both Trump and Kamala Harris regarding their debate strategies, emphasizing the importance of staying on message and avoiding distractions.

TLDR

Anthony Scaramucci discusses Trump's campaign struggles, internal conflicts, and potential changes as he faces legal challenges and shifting voter demographics.

Episode

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we are going to get to where Trump's mine is now with an interview with Anthony scaramucci who is the White
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House communications director under Donald Trump and is the founder of managing partner of skybridge capital
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welcome Anthony how you doing I'm doing well how are you you know let me just say I'm gonna let medy start because he
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requested you so I I I I want him to start on this we're obviously going to talk about where Donald Trump's head is
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at so uh medie take it away Anthony good to see you I thought you'd be a great person to talk to this week after Donald
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Trump's rambling pre press conference insane dishonest press conference after his uh AI accusations against Carla
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Harris's rally crowds I know you've been asked this many times before over the years but let me ask it again is Donald
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Trump in the middle of a meltdown uh well I mean he's he's in a rolling meltdown on most days and most times so
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yes he's in the middle of a meltdown but it's not unusual for him to be in a meltdown but you know Cara brought
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something up she said you know medy requested you I think medy I would like to think this respects my Evolution and
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my honesty you know I was on the wrong side of this I had to look at it very crystally clear I had to own the fact
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that I was on the wrong side of it and then I had to actually explain what happened and so you have guys like Mike
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Pompeo you have guys like McConnell Kevin McCarthy uh you know from your journalistic reporting these guys
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absolutely cannot stand Donald Trump uh but they're still supporting him due to moral cowardice and political expediency
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um I've had Senators I've had one Senator hand me and he promised me not to use his name so I won't use it but he
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handed me a book that's snakes in suits he says read this I've read this this is
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how I deal with Donald Trump okay snakes and Suits so so medy I tried to be very
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honest about this I love my country I don't agree with a lot of the policies that are coming out of the Democrats
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kosis the crypto policies I don't agree with but I love my country okay and and the
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democracy and the civil ization and the Order of Things the predictability of our
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Judiciary the lack of a project 2025 which is a hegemonic control by a group of anarco Christians okay I don't want
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that for my country and so here we are but yes so he's in a rolling thing can I give you some insight because I've
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talked to some people inside the campaign please um he's in a full-on uh temper tantrum over what is
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going on uh his his tried and true Rubik's Cube uh Cara you're a nasty girl Cara you're a nasty girl okay it's not
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it's not it's not working you see what I mean and he's trying it it's a 2016 Playbook oh I'm running against a woman
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so let me get the Rubik's Cube to look like the following things here comes the word salad out of my mouth and it's
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going to work but what he's missing guys is that the demographics of the voting constituency has moved and so they don't
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like it okay if you're going to tell me that the presidential candidate for the Democrats turned black and I'm that's
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not my words and I again I literally almost apologize on your podcast for using these words but they're not my
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words this is the words of the Republican Presidential nominee turn black I'm sorry most normal people don't
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like that but I can tell you who really doesn't like that are younger people do not like why is he doing it so he's flx
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is he not is he does he does he have no other move because everyone has and he's a very
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talented political figure in yeah so that's that's exactly right so he's now in a bunker he's now doing what he does
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he's on his phone he's calling supposed friends he's calling allies um I'll tell you who's not
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helping him right now is Steve Bannon but would be helping him because uh Cara and medy you know how smart Steve is
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he's a malevolent MF but we all three of us know how smart he is he'd be on the phone with Steve right now Steve is a
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super smart guy and Steve would be like okay here's what you need to do here's how you have to do it here's what you
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need to say and here's how we're going to make this go from here and Trump would be recalibrating but he hasn't
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found the St so that's an issue yes yes exactly st's in prison till November 1st
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okay and that's tough because you only have four days to talk to the trumpster but he's yeah I'm surprised we haven't
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come up with the trumpster dumpster you know the trumpster dumpster because that's what's going on right now go
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ahead seen that but but he's got he's got Anthony he's got the political genius that is Don Jr advising him from
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the sidelines giving him J so so so okay so you guys know this he is furious over
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this and he is absolutely Furious over this uh he made that decision and I don't care if you're super human or you
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think he's super human he's not a bullet whiz by his head he was this close to death and he was traumatized by that and
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you we can pretend that it's a video game but guys it's not a video game he made the decision he he made the
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decision to pick JD Vance in the 72 hours over almost he was almost killed now what happened in those 72 hours his
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poll number shot up his Victorious EO gima picture with the flag behind him and the blood on his ear and so he's
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like okay it's not going to matter I'm going to pick whoever and and then the narcissism also
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Creeps in okay so I can't pick Nikki Haley first of all she said mean things about me and I don't like that and
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secondarily people will say she helped me win the race so I can't pick her I have to win this race 100% on my own all
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attention on me I can't pick Marco Rubio Little Marco because he said mean things
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about my hands and I don't like that okay JD Vance he said me things about me a few years ago but there's nothing that
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Trump likes more than a conversion okay okay there's nothing he hates more than a guy like me I've seen
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the evil I'm speaking to to the evil JD Vance is like I've seen the evil but I'm
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a politically motivated super ambitious son of a and I'm going with the evil see Trump
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loves that because that that that Trump knows they have no moral anchor so he can do anything he wants with them you
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say he's Furious you posted a few days ago on exit you believe Trump's recent Behavior means changes are coming to
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campaign what do changes mean from your perspective because you know he wants to
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fire lasita he doesn't want to fire Susie WS he's blaming lasita for a lot of this stuff Chris good guy I know him
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forever Chris a good job getting him until recently they they have he's been disciplined he's been on message but let
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me explain to you why he wants to fire these guys okay I put 85 let's think like Donald Trump for a second I put 85
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of my super loyalists my maggots my mags's into project 2025 I then took the president of the
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Heritage Foundation around on the plane with me I told him yeah make up a great plan for me to take over America
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liquidate the Judiciary branch and the legislative branch I really want an oligarchic America you have to really
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understand this this is why those billionaire Bros are with them they want an oligarchy they see how the oligarchs
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have flourished in other dictatorships and it's cleaner it's neater they can get more things done for their
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businesses they have less restrictions less checks and balances they want this sure they don't want the messiness of
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the democ Peter te has said publicly that the democracy is probably obsolete right you heard him say it he said it
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ago what he going to do with these people so so so so now he has a civil war going on okay the 85 people he
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jettisoned and said I hate project 2025 they're like well wait a minute you you told us to go over there so this is
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like in The Sopranos where they R ran over the guy's head in the gas station okay and now they're sitting there
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saying okay now what do we want to do and he says well Jesus Christ those are my friends why did you make me run them
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over and so he's blaming it on Lavita you see what's going on so now he's on the phone he's calling around to people
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not the two of you because you hate them and not me because I hate them hello what should I do what should I do and he
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hasn't found the right word salad so he's off the campaign Trail he doesn't want to go on the campaign Trail where
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she's got 10,000 people and he has 3,000 people and he's got the wrong word salad
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and that's what's going on right now so and I know this son of a so well okay I have the I have the decoder ring
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so on on laev obviously you're friends with him I'm not I wouldn't describe anyone who works for Donald Trump as a
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good person that's just me I know you said he's a good guy the guy's running like a swift booat operation against
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Waltz he ran the original Swift booat against John Kerry uh but on the staffing issues just putting lasita to
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one side explain to us Anthony you mentioned that the project 2025 people got thrown under the bus how are there
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still people who saw what happened to you and so what happened to everyone so what happened to all these people Nikki
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Haley and still think wow he'll be loyal to to me he'll stick with me and then they then they're like oh wow he screwed
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me over how are there still people who are shocked at being screwed over by Donald J Trump I don't even think
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they're shocked anymore I think they want power I think I think I think this is about power this is like okay you
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know what this son of a is going to blow me up but uh is he going to blow me up now is it we're going to measure
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it in scaramucci's 11-day units like scaramucci or is he going to blow me up in 200 scaramucci but in the 200
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scaramucci I'm going to get a lot done he's a vehicle for these white Christian aarco and these oligarchs get him in
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power he's not that ideological we'll impose our ideology on everybody else we'll see if we can do so much damage to
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the system that no one the system will be in shambles and so uh maybe this will be our last election it's a vehicle he's
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hinted at that hasn't he you know just vote for me this time you won't ever have to vote again you heard him say
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that right right yes we did but you you predicted a couple weeks ago that he might leave the race do you still
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believe that's an actual possibility so it's not just me saying that there are other people saying that that really
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know him he does not want to go to jail okay the three things that are going on in his head I love money how can I get
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do more deals when I'm president number two uh I love attention I want to be on the top page of the of the broadsheet
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newspapers number three I really don't want to go to jail under any circumstances I'm a frightened child
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which is why I'm expressing it with orange war paint on and all this hyper masculinity so if he sees himself
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potentially going to jail he could say okay get me out of the race put haly at the top of the ticket or DeSantis
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DeSantis Vance haly Vance or maybe even Vance goes and it's haly DeSantis let them take on uh Kamala okay he may even
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go to Biden okay and say hey I'll come out of the race but I need a pardon and I need you to call Kathy hok okay and
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get me a pardon there now he blew self up with Brian Kemp but I guarantee you Brian Kemp would give him a pardon in
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Georgia guaranteed wow that's a lot of activity this is kind of so in 90 days he's going to get pardons from everyone
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and get out of the race and they're gonna have I think they okay you guys can you guys can think otherwise but I'm
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just telling you what I know and I know what he's like and and and and and you know you know many how do I get out of
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this Jam is what you're saying how can I do you know how many times in nine years
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I've said can you believe he's doing this and now he's saying that the Crowds Are AI generated for camela Harris that
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this is hard to believe it's no longer hard to believe there's no surprises anymore anony as long as he thinks he
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can win does he think he can win I do but as long as as long as he thinks he can win and as I said to Cara earlier in
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the show like he can win right it's a 50-50 election anyone who thinks he can't win is absurd either of them could
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win at this point as long as he thinks he could win there's no reason for him to step aside he wants power as you say
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he wants that attention and he's got a very good chance of getting it in 90 days so again you guys are not going to
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believe me but I talked to a lot of insiders in the the campaign he's less interested in the power he's more
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interested in the retribution okay so he will go play golf he will hand the government over to the project 2025
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people Tariq Havoc he has an enemies list is 350 people I'm on it I'm just disappointed I'm not ranked higher okay
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I had dinner with esper and I had dinner with Millie a few weeks ago they're like
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three and seven on the list and uh yeah it's it's Liz Cheney Mike Pence you go down the list I'm like 48th I'm like
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guys what am I not what am I not doing all right you really should be in the top 10 but you think he could win bet
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he's is a point he still has a very good chance of winning he has a chance to win
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but he's rolling off of a waterfall you've got Pluff on the campaign you've got Obama camela Harris
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I've said this on my podcast I've said this said it right K I apologize I'm from New York all right I'm not I don't
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mean any disrespect by saying it the way I say it let me phrase it Comm La Harris
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okay I'm not saying it with any remember it comma LA but go ahead okay I will remember she's my speech therapist see
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if I had her in second grade I would have been people would have thought it was a lot if we all had call Mad need to
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go medy if I only had her in second grade right I mean you know moony answer the question this accent cost me a lot
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of money in my life I just want you to know that but let me just say this to you okay if if if if she stays on
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message message which I believe she will and they build her help with her help build her the Coalition which I believe
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they're going to do okay and here's what he here's what he should do call her nasty call her stupid okay keep doing
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that you'll have women lining up and they'll stay online for 15 hours they won't need any water they'll stay online
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for 15 so see look I'm going to take your reproductive freedoms away she's nasty and she's stupid keep saying that
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okay and you will see him lose by 11 points okay and and I believe that I don't think he's going to lose by sadly
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I don't think any Republicans ever going to lose by 11 points the Electoral College vote will
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be closer but he'll he'll lose can can I ask a question about Trump himself that's that's really bothering me right
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now which is again we've done the walls closing in losing his mind he's in you know meltdown for eight nine years now
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but at this point where he is age you know he's an old guy he's the oldest man to ever run for president now that Joe
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Biden step aside do you think we should have more conversation you mentioned the
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senator who gave you a book about him being a a sociopath I remember John Kelly reportedly went out and bought um
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the book about by a bunch of psychiatrist saying he was a danger to the Constitution the case against uh
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Donald Trump and Kelly brought that you know people around him who know him best
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they know he's got mental health issues right so why aren't we talking about that more as a media as a political
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debate uh and do you think that's going to hurt him now because I was saying to Cara earlier now that Caris the race all
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of that Biden is old Biden has got dementia does that all just transfer to him a lot of it does and they're
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obviously working on that but here's what he here's what he has okay there is no Nancy Pelosi in the Republican party
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if there was a Nancy Pelosi in the Republican Party hey man you got to go okay we're going to lose this race with
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you and you got to go and if you don't go this is what we're going to do to you okay and they are so afraid of okay and
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the the the biggest Freddy of all time in American history that I'm aware of and I know him personally Kevin McCarthy
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Kevin McCarthy could have put him right to the ropes on the 7th of January 2021 and he would have been the most
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popular figure in the Republican but he'd probably be running for president right now he'd probably be the nominee
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but he's a baby and he's a Fredy cat and he has the spine of a jellyfish and he quivered uh at Donald Trump okay so he's
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the weakest person I've met in politics but the other guys are a bunch of babies
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so they won't do by the way they won't anything but let me tell you if they did if they did it would be a close race if
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you if you swapped him out for Hy or S right now be a close race 100% so last 100% Nikki Haley was always my biggest
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um last two questions if he does want to win what should he do at the debate this
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you've been a proponent of them having the debate um as course I always said he was going to have it there's one
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schedule possibly more on the way um what does he need to do if he actually wants to win okay he needs to do
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something he's almost incapable of doing I hope you guys guys like my t-shirt this is from Bad News Bears remember
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Chico be Delon okay okay so what he needs to do which he's not going to do okay because he's not he doesn't like
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doing it he needs to shut up and he needs to make this an issues-based campaign and he needs to go out there
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and he needs to say these are the issues this is where I am this is where she is
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now the reason he's not going to do that is he's one inch deep on the issues he's
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not even a foot deep okay on the issues yeah so he can't really do that he can say they're pouring over the Border you
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know all the syntax that he uses they're they're doing this they're doing that the rapist Alexa well he thought the
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Asylum thing was like an insane asylum he didn't realize it was political Asylum so that's him right and but but
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let me tell you he's really good at it he is the Frank Sinatra of elocution you say what the
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hell do I mean by that study Frank the way Frank sung Frank would pause at certain places where
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the the average singer wouldn't Trump copied that from Frank Sinatra okay he won't eat before a uh uh he gets to a
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microphone why he told me Frank Sinatra told him never eat before you get before
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in microphone okay okay he studied all of these things okay and so he's in a loop he's in a word salad Loop that's
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not working with this demography he needs to find somebody way smarter than him to say okay stop doing that I know
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you're not going to focus on the policies but let's focus on the aspirational hope of America that you're
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going to provide why can't sus get him to do this why can't she uh she can't get him to do this because he h he's
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still making the mental adjustment that he's not running against an 81y old fossil see he's he's now running against
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a 60-year-old very capable person and I hope you guys don't mind me saying this on your podcast and if you do you can
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cut but when he says that she's dumb that's as close as he can get to the nword without saying the n word I'm
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sorry to say it this way but it's a racist Trope okay this woman Dei presid yes this woman is a prosecutor this
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woman won the Attorney General's race this woman won the Senate this woman was elected vice president this is an
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extremely capable extremely competent person and when he's doing that you think Susie w
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is not saying Caris swier you think Susie WS is not saying Mr President please stop doing that you can't do that
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because that's a code word yeah and you you've got the world on fire doing that yeah so he has okay last question for me
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question is are we going back to 1947 before Jackie Robinson took the field or are we living in 2024 now I believe
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we're in 2024 right Trump wants to take you back to 1947 okay and and and I don't know if
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he's capable of making the adjustment Med and Carol I don't know if he is I know he wants to I know he wants to but
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he doesn't have somebody he doesn't have a shaman he doesn't have a Siro de BC whispering in his oh well um so last
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question very quickly uh and Med may have a very quick one because we only have two minutes but um JD rants give me
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an assessment very briefly grade few words uh well he did better over the weekend of was just being objective he
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did better over the weekend but he's an unmitigated well you guys don't think he
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did I'm talking about the conservatives okay all right okay hey wait a minute wait a minute there's two there's two
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countries there's two sides of the brain in this country the conservatives he did
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he did better with the conservatives over the weekend you could like him or dislike him I think he's an unmitigated
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disaster and I think he's a net negative for Trump and when he picked them I was
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literally laughing out loud I call him just do Vance JD Vance okay so he's an unmitigated disaster for Trump and Trump
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is so pissed right now and he's he's yelling at all of the people that pushed him on this guy and he wants to fire him
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like tonight but he's afraid to fire him so he probably won't get fired but if he
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does get fired here's the my prediction right he will get fired the day after the Democratic National Convention now
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why is that he has to Bigfoot them from immedia attention and so he's going to let that go and let me tell you
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something if he pulls in Nikki Haley which is possible be at much tighter race what's your advice to KLA Harris
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for a debate what would you tell her to do to really get under his skin Don't Take debate do watch the first Joe Biden
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debate with Donald Trump and do not take the bait and if he's rambling let him go
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because it'll show the insanity of the Moralo press conference and if the Madam vice president is listening go do a few
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interviews now now is time you have to go do a few interviews you can't wait till after the convention
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do I understand why you didn't do interview you need to get acclimated to the new Spotlight totally respect that
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but it's now time to do a few interviews and practice get a son of a to stand at the podium okay that's very
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white and 6'3 and berate you and don't take the bait study what Joe Biden did in debate 1 2020 all right I agree with
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you I agree with you I have to say she didn't take the bait when he did the black thing she said she just ignored
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him when he he said she was turned I think she's I I think she said this car I actually said this to you once I've
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said it on my podcast she is so underrated okay and what politicians benefit from are low
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expectations right and so all she has to do is stay on discipline and message and
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can I tell a quick camel Harris story before we go very quick yes go ahead okay so I'm with her and Doug mhof in
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Israel we're on a bipartisan trip to Israel it's July of 2018 having a very good time the official photographer
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comes over and says Senator Harris yes would you like to take a picture with the mooch she goes what are you kidding
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me I don't want to do that I'm not ruining my political career I was like literally I'm looking at her like okay I
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said that's good judgment on your part I'm just letting you guys know if she took that picture she wouldn't be in the
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position she's in right now

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Episode Highlights

  • Trump's Meltdown
    Anthony Scaramucci discusses Trump's ongoing meltdown and its implications for his campaign.
    “He's in a rolling meltdown on most days.”
    @ 00m 44s
    August 13, 2024
  • Political Expediency
    Scaramucci explains why key Republican figures support Trump despite their disdain for him.
    “They're still supporting him due to moral cowardice and political expediency.”
    @ 01m 24s
    August 13, 2024
  • The Fear of Jail
    Scaramucci reveals Trump's fear of going to jail and its impact on his campaign decisions.
    “He does not want to go to jail under any circumstances.”
    @ 10m 07s
    August 13, 2024
  • JD Vance's Impact on Trump
    A candid assessment reveals Vance as a liability for Trump, causing frustration.
    “He's an unmitigated disaster for Trump.”
    @ 20m 15s
    August 13, 2024
  • Nikki Haley's Potential
    The possibility of Haley entering the race could change dynamics significantly.
    “If he pulls in Nikki Haley, it's a much tighter race.”
    @ 21m 00s
    August 13, 2024
  • Kamala Harris's Underrated Skills
    A discussion highlights Harris's potential and the importance of low expectations.
    “She is so underrated.”
    @ 22m 07s
    August 13, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • I love my country, but I don't agree with a lot of the policies.
    Are Major Changes Coming to Donald Trump's Campaign? | Pivot
  • He's a frightened child.
    Are Major Changes Coming to Donald Trump's Campaign? | Pivot
  • He's in a word salad loop that's not working.
    Are Major Changes Coming to Donald Trump's Campaign? | Pivot
  • He's an unmitigated disaster for Trump.
    Are Major Changes Coming to Donald Trump's Campaign? | Pivot
  • If he pulls in Nikki Haley, it's a much tighter race.
    Are Major Changes Coming to Donald Trump's Campaign? | Pivot
  • She is so underrated.
    Are Major Changes Coming to Donald Trump's Campaign? | Pivot

Key Moments

  • Trump's Meltdown00:44
  • Political Cowardice01:24
  • Fear of Jail10:07
  • Word Salad Loop17:48
  • Political Disaster20:15
  • Tight Race21:00
  • Underrated Skills22:07

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