Anthony Scaramucci on Monday slammed former President Trump for choosing Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate, calling the decision the “first glaring error” made by the Trump campaign since winning the Republican nomination.
“This is the first mistake that Trump and his team have disclosed since winning the nomination,” said Scaramucci, who served briefly as Trump’s White House communications director and has emerged as a vocal critic of the former president. Said The comment went viral on social platform X following news that Trump would nominate Vance.
“Trump didn’t want anyone to take credit for his electoral successes or failures,” Scaramucci said. I said in a later post“I look forward to the upcoming national conversation about our democracy, election lies, and the future of this great country.”
Vance and Trump formally joined the GOP slate at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday, and Trump’s selection of Vance is widely seen as solidifying the GOP’s “MAGA” slate of candidates.
The 39-year-old first-term senator won a crowded primary with President Trump’s support and was elected in 2022. Ideologically, Vance’s conservatism leans more populist and he embraces President Trump’s “America First” ideas on foreign policy, particularly in opposition to aiding Ukraine.
Vance, a Marine Corps veteran and Yale Law School graduate, first rose to fame with his book “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis,” which detailed his experiences growing up surrounded by poverty and drug addiction, and became a favorite among political commentators trying to understand Trump’s rise in 2016.
Scaramucci has criticized Vance in the past.
After Vance travelled to New York to support Trump at his criminal trial, Scaramucci called the Republican senator a “wayward sycophant” and said Trump was “destroying the Republican Party.”
“So there’s very little core people left in that party,” Scaramucci told CNN in a May interview, “and the people who are standing there are just half-hearted followers.”
