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Anthony Scaramucci

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The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

I'm not a big believer in these conspiracies.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

I think the Butler thing was prima facie.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

The Charlie Kirk thing, even though there's questions about it, I still think is prima facie.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

And I think this is prima facie.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

But the one thing that would make people

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

raise alarms is the way they capitalized on it.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

So they rushed down to the White House briefing room, they get into the briefing room with their tuxedos and they're answering questions of reporters and their tuxedos and evening gowns.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

And they've got messaging coming out of the White House where

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

lots of their MAGA supporters are on the same text thread.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

There's a communique that goes out from the White House that you need to now support the ballroom and the activity around the construction of the ballroom.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

And there's probably 100 MAGA influencers that almost within the same minute of each other are sending out messages that the ballroom needs to be promoted.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

And so when you step back from that, you can say, oh, see, this was all coordinated and blah, blah, blah.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

But

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

But I think that that is a reaction to what happened.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

I don't think the event was planned.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

And I think this is, again, another big problem.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

And this is where our adversaries have won.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

No question.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

They've made us believe things.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

Catherine Belton wrote about this in Putin's People six years ago, where she explained all the server farms that were set up outside of Moscow to drive public opinion away from each other and to create heated, bullyish tribalism on the net.