What Anthony Scaramucci gets dead wrong in his turn against Donald Trump

In a variety of interviews and tweets -- including on Monday morning on CNN -- the former White House communications director (all 11 days' worth!) has insisted that the President is, in Mooch's mind, a nuclear reactor on the verge of a meltdown and therefore he no longer supports Trump.

"The guy's actually dissembling a little bit, and he's sounding more and more nonsensical," Scaramucci said on "New Day." "And, you know, we're sort anesthetized to it."

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"To those asking, 'what took so long?' You're right. I tried to see best in based on private interactions and select policy alignment. But his increasingly divisive rhetoric - and damage it's doing to fabric of our society - outweighs any short-term economic gain."

Scaramucci is entitled to his own opinion. But not his own facts. And the facts simply do not line up with the idea that Trump's rhetoric is getting worse or more divisive -- particularly of late. The facts suggest that Trump has always been exactly the person he is today. There's no meaningful change -- for the better or the worse -- in his behavior. Trump is, quite simply, just being Trump.

Consider this: Two years ago today, white nationalist marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, created a riot that left a woman -- Heather Heyer -- dead. In the wake of that incident, Trump blamed "both sides" -- the white supremacists and those who organized a counter-protest to them -- for Heyer's death.

Trump said at the time. "You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say it, but I will say it right now," Trump said at the time.

Not enough for you? How about these:

rapists and criminals * Trump said Mexico was purposely sending rapists and criminals to the United States

Access Hollywood * In an audio recording of an " Access Hollywood " interview, Trump made a series of misogynistic comments about women

had been captured * Trump said the late Sen. John McCain wasn't a war hero because he had been captured by the North Vietnamese

blood coming out of her wherever * Trump said that there was " blood coming out of her wherever " in reference to then-Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly's treatment of him in a 2015 debate

conflict of interest * Trump said an American-born judge of Mexican descent had a conflict of interest in a case related to Trump University because the President had pushed for a wall to be built on our southern border.

Scaramucci knows that. He also should know better.

Source: CNN

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