Anthony Scaramucci just sent himself to prison if he ghost-wrote Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant
Donald Trump’s Twitter account appears to have just leaked classified information about a CIA military operation in Syria, in the midst of a rant about the media. If our working theory this week is correct that Anthony Scaramucci has been ghost writing Trump’s tweets without Trump’s involvement, then Scaramucci just sent himself to prison.
The morning after Anthony Scaramucci was unveiled as the new White House Communications Director, the next Trump rant on twitter was rather clearly ghostwritten. It used words like “whereas” that aren’t readily in Trump’s vocabulary. It said “e-mail” when Trump says “email.” It referred to Trump’s son by as “Donald” when Trump always calls him “Don.” Then the next day Trump’s Twitter account used the word “beleaguered” which is absolutely not in Trump’s vocabulary. So Trump didn’t write any of these tweets. The timing strongly suggests, but doesn’t prove, that they were instead tweeted by Scaramucci.
Then came tonight’s Trump rant about the Washington Post, which included this tweet: “The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad.” General consensus among experts is that this was a leak of classified information. The president has the power to declassify information, but is supposed to sign a formal memo before announcing it. Trump has leaked classified intel before and gotten away with it.
But if Anthony Scaramucci did indeed ghost-write this tweet, and if he did it on his own without bothering to get Donald Trump to declassify it, then Scaramucci committed a felony. And while the president might be able to get away with this kind of thing, White House advisers go to prison for it. This could make Scaramucci’s tenure one of the shortest and most disastrous in White House history. And the night is still young.
