Spicer resigns as White House press secretary

Source: Politico | July 21, 2017 | Tara Palmeri and Ben White

The decision comes after Trump decided to name Anthony Scaramucci to the job of communications director.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer has resigned, according to multiple officials, after President Donald Trump decided to name Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier and longtime Trump supporter, as the new White House communications director.

It’s a dramatic end for Spicer’s White House tenure, which has been marked by combative exchanges with reporters in the briefing room and a rocky relationship with the president, who never warmed to the former Republican National Committee official.

Scaramucci’s expected appointment has caused great upheaval in the West Wing, with chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon — along with Spicer — expressing opposition to him getting the high-profile job.

“This was a murdering of Reince and Bannon. They said Anthony would get this job over their dead bodies,” said one top White House official.

The official added that Scaramucci had the backing of Trump son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell.

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Trump met with Scaramucci on Thursday night to discuss the role and again on Friday morning, according to three White House officials and two advisers with knowledge. Trump sees Scaramucci as a strong defender of him on television, particularly on the Russia scandal, and wants him to be focused on the surrogate strategy as communications director.

Trump has been enamored with Scaramucci since he managed to get a retraction from CNN on a story published in late June about his alleged Russia connections, according to a one senior administration official and one outside adviser.

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