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Anthony Scaramucci

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The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

What do you make of it?

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

And what are your thoughts on it?

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

I did.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

I needed a rabbinical analysis.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

I was hoping that you would be more objective than me.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

For me, knowing him pretty well, it's a sign of the pressure on him.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

Because when he pressurizes like this, and he's down to 84% of the Republicans.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

Now, he was at 100%, so God bless him.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

But he's down to 84%, and you and I both know that the Republican Party is shrinking.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

If you look at the actual registration base, it's at 28%, 29%.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

So he's shrinking, his support is shrinking, and what he has a tendency to do when that happens, he starts lashing out at the people in the room.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

But going after the Pope to me was outrageous.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

I just want to bring up a historical context here, and this happened during the Second World War when Joseph Stalin –

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

remarked, this is actually to a French diplomat, Pierre Laval, he remarked, it was precursor to the war, 1935, they were talking about the geopolitical footprint, the rise of Nazism.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

And he said, what of the Pope?

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

He has no divisions.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

He has no army.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

Okay, and this was the pure real politic military material power argument.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

But if you remember, and I'm sure you do, Winston Churchill then said, well, he doesn't have a number of legions that are always visible on parade.

The Rest Is Politics: US
177. The Real Reason Trump’s Blocking The Strait of Hormuz

All right, you remember that great remark by Churchill?