Two comments about the Scaramuucci incident yesterday: First, a guy that doesn’t know to manage whether he’s on or off the record when he heads off on a street-punk tirade with a reporter from an unfriendly news outlet is probably not a good choice to be communications director. Being Trump’s Mini-me is not a qualification. And second, like the definition of a diplomat as someone sent abroad to lie for his country, a White House spokesman is someone who steps up to lie for the President. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders went out of the lawn yesterday to tell a Fox reporter that the … Continue reading L’affaire Scaramucci