Anthony Scaramucci, a former White House aide to President Trump, donated $30,000 to President Biden’s now-defunct 2024 presidential campaign last month, and said in an exclusive interview with The Washington Post that he supports Kamala Harris using the money for her own presidential bid.
Federal Election Commission filings Former President Donald Trump’s White House communications director, who only served in the job for 10 days in 2017, made the fat donation on June 17, according to the report.
“I have shown it not just with my words but with my actions,” Scaramucci told The Washington Post on Monday, adding of Harris, “she will beat Trump.”
Additionally, the former White House official confirmed to The Washington Post that he is still officially a registered Republican.
“As a Republican, I’m in crisis,” Scaramucci said.
Scaramucci, a former Goldman Sachs banker known as “The Mooch” who runs SkyBridge Capital, gave money last month to a political action committee then known as the Biden Victory Fund, according to the filing.
Following the commander in chief’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 race, the campaign fund has been renamed the Harris Victory Fund, and the vice president will now seek to recover all donations made from it.
The donation marks a surprising turnaround for Scaramucci, who gave $100,000 to a similar fundraising group supporting Chris Christie’s short-lived bid for the Republican nomination last year.
Scaramucci fell from being one of Trump’s most vocal defenders to one of his most vocal critics after a high-profile feud with Trump when the real estate mogul was fired from his job.
He was fired after making abusive remarks during an interview. The New Yorker In it, he called then-Chief of Staff Rence Priebus a “horrible paranoid schizophrenic” and used obscene language to slander President Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
Scaramucci’s op-ed last month came just four days before Biden’s disjointed performance in a CNN debate that ultimately prompted Democrats to pressure the 81-year-old Biden to drop out of the race.
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Scaramucci supported Biden in 2020 but did not contribute money to his last campaign, choosing instead to donate $25,000 to an anti-Trump political action committee. FEC filings show.
Mouch has tweeted his support for the president and vice president in recent months, once again backing Democrats’ efforts to keep the White House.
But he also hinted at concerns about Biden’s weaknesses, saying he attended the former candidate’s lavish party in the Hamptons on June 30, where Biden delivered a 15-minute speech using a teleprompter.
“This will not be enough to demonstrate to the American people that he intends to serve another four years in office,” the president said at the time.
Following Biden’s withdrawal on Sunday, Scaramucci posted on social media, “President Biden is an American patriot with an incredible record. It’s time to defeat Trump and the threat he represents.”
He later retweeted a post from LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, a major Democratic donor, praising Harris as “the right person at the right time.”
“Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are promising policies that will wreak havoc on the American people. Harris’ record and leadership on economic growth, fighting for bodily independence, and protecting our democracy uniquely position her to counter Trump’s extremism,” Hoffman wrote on X, the platform owned by Elon Musk and formerly known as Twitter.
