Where Anthony Scaramucci and America went wrong
Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan

Where Anthony Scaramucci and America went wrong

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 202645 min
  • Interview
  • Politics

Anthony Scaramucci is a successful Wall Street financier, a recovering Republican, a famously short-lived communications director in the first Trump administration and co-presenter with Katty Kay of The Rest is Politics US. His new book All the Wrong Moves chronicles his time within the Maga movement and diagnoses where America took a wrong turn. He talks to Hugh about three “catastrophic” policy errors he believes gave rise to the populist anger that propelled Trump to power. Would you like to receive daily insights into world events delivered to your inbox? Sign up for Denis Staunton's Global Briefing newsl...

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You're listening to The Irish Times. Hello there, and you're very welcome to the Inside Politics podcast from The Irish Times. I'm Hugh Linna, and today I am delighted to welcome Anthony Scaramucci. Anthony is a successful Wall Street financier, a recovering Republican, a famously short-lived Director

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of Communications in the first Trump administration, probably well known to many of our listeners as co-presenter with Caddy Kay of the Rest is Politics US. And now Anthony, an author! You're very welcome. It's really great to be on with you. Thank you. It's nice to see you again and thank

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you for your interest in my book. I appreciate it. It's a book with big ambitions because it diagnoses the ailments that currently affect the United States and kind of goes back to their source. I should say that it's called All the Wrong Moves and you identify some key mistakes over the course of the book

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