NEW TRUMP AIDE ENJOYS BIG SWEARING IN CEREMONY
OPEN warfare has erupted inside President Donald Trump’s inner circle as his new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, attacked senior White House colleagues in obscene comments.
Mr Scaramucci blasted White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and Mr Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, in an article in The New Yorker based on a telephone conversation between one of the magazine’s correspondents and Mr Scaramucci.
Amid a stream of vulgar language, the former Wall Street financier named to the communications post last week called Mr Priebus a “f--- ing paranoid schizophrenic” and accused Mr Bannon of trying to build his own brand “off the f---ing strength of the president”.
In a Twitter message after the article appeared online, Mr Scaramucci said: “I sometimes use colourful language. I will refrain in this arena.”
Mr Priebus and Mr Bannon had no comment. Mr Trump himself made no public comment on his aide’s outburst. CLASHES between Venezuelan security forces and demonstrators have killed five people during the latest oppositionled strike to protest an election this weekend that critics contend will mark the end of democracy in the oil-rich country.
As Venezuela’s crisis deepened, Colombian airline Avianca yesterday cancelled its operations in the country and the US State Department said it was ordering family members of US employees at its embassy in Caracas to leave ahead of the vote.