Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as White Home communications director beneath former President Trump, mentioned Wednesday he expects Trump to lose the presidential election however doesn’t count on him to foment an revolt.
“It’s too close to call,” Scaramucci informed host Dean Obeidallah on his SiriusXM present when requested how he thought the election may finish for Trump. “I think she’s going to win because she’s got the money, the organization, and I think there are more good people in the country.”
“I think he loses,” Scaramucci mentioned.
Scaramucci, who has lately turn out to be a vocal Trump critic, mentioned he disagrees with pundits who fear concerning the potential for political violence if Trump loses the election in lower than two weeks.
The previous aide pointed to Trump’s upcoming Nov. 26 sentencing in his New York felony case, which resulted in a responsible conviction for Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise data as a part of a broader scheme to defend the American public from doubtlessly damaging info forward of the 2016 election.
“If he loses, I’m in the contrarian view that he will not try to foment any violent revolution or an insurrection because he has a sentencing hanging over him on November the 26th,” Scaramucci mentioned. “So three weeks after the election, 34 felony counts, he’s got to stand before a judge and be sentenced.”
If Trump encourages violence after hypothetically shedding the election, Scaramucci mentioned, the choose may subject a harsher sentence.
“If he’s fomenting violence in the three weeks after the election, they’re going to put him in jail. There’s no question about that in my mind,” Scaramucci mentioned about Trump. “I think if he doesn’t do that, and he says, ‘I’m never going to accept a defeat, but I’m not suggesting violence,’ and he slinks away, they won’t put him in jail because I don’t think they want to put a former president, no matter how bad he is, in jail.”
“But if he’s out there blowing dog whistles and he says, ‘I want you to shoot your neighbors that didn’t vote for me,’ and you have violence in the streets in the United States, he’s going straight to jail,” he added.
Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung responded to the interview by knocking Scaramucci’s historic 10-day tenure in his put up.
“Nobody is going to listen to someone who barely lasted more time than an expired ham sandwich as White House communications director,” Cheung wrote.
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