Fox News’ Jesse Watters confronted former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci about turning against President Trump, claiming the media is employing the feud to fuel bad press for the administration.
In an interview that aired Saturday, Watters repeatedly said he was “worried” about Scaramucci, who had once been a vocal defender of the president, and asked how he could “completely do a 180” on his former boss.
Scaramucci argued Trump turned on him first. He said it began after an Aug. 9 appearance on Bill Maher’s HBO show during which he said that Trump had done “certain things” that “are absolutely indefensible,” referring to the president’s attacks on four non-white congresswomen.
“The very next day he attacked me. Then, he went after my wife,” Scaramucci said before calling Trump a “fascist” for attacking a private citizen using his “political power.”
Indeed, Trump did lash out at Scaramucci later that month, claiming his communications director of 11 days abused his staff, and made some unflattering assertions about Scaramucci’s marriage to Deidre Ball.
Watters, who recently got engaged to Emma DiGiovine after getting divorced from his first wife earlier this year, said “obviously” an individual would get upset if their wife was attacked. But he said Trump is “not a fascist and you know better than that.”
Speaking over one another, Watters told Scaramucci, “I think you’re getting used by the media,” after which Scaramucci told Watters he is “in the tank for Trump.”
Watters denied this was true, countering, “I think that you now have changed because the president has always been like this.”
Scaramucci assured Watters that he has not changed and accused Trump of moving “the goal posts in the last six weeks from crazy to full-blown crazy.”
