Former Trump insider explains why the Epstein files 'won’t knock him out'

Anthony Scaramucci is among the conservative Republicans who served in Donald Trump's first Trump administration but later became an outspoken critic of him and rooted for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the United States' 2024 election. In Scaramucci's view, Trump was unfaithful to traditional conservative principles — and despite some policy differences with Democrats, he saw Harris as a much better choice.

During an interview with The Guardian published on March 3, the former White House communications director weighed in on Trump's second presidency — including the Epstein files controversy. And he stressed that Trump, flaws and all, is quite resilient.

Scaramucci told The Guardian, "You can never count him out. The Epstein files won't knock him out. I've said that consistently."

During the interview, Scaramucci laid out some reasons why Trump is so "angry."

"You have to get comfortable with being an outsider," the former Trump Administration official told The Guardian. "Trump is an outsider, but he’s an uncomfortable outsider, and so, he has a chip on his shoulder. He's angry that he can't get into the salons of the uber-wealthy, the establishment. So now, he's trying to lord over them. He couldn't get into certain golf clubs that the bluebloods were members of, so he built himself golf courses."

But despite his strong criticism of Trump, Scaramucci noted some things he has in common with the president.

"We fight like New Yorkers," Scaramucci told The Guardian. "He doesn't really come back at me, because he knows I'm going to come back at him…. There's something called 'Trump derangement syndrome'; I think I have 'Trump reality syndrome.' I know what he is, I know what he does, I know what he's capable of — and I know the danger of him."

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