Newly minted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci lauded Breitbart News on Saturday in his first interview since joining the Trump administration.
“I think one of the things that Breitbart has done is you’ve captured the spirit of what is actually going on in the country,” Scaramucci told Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News on Saturday.
Scaramucci opened the interview by jokingly asking Boyle, who serves as the far-right website’s political editor in Washington, whether he had submitted his résumé to the White House.
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“Did you send your job application form in yet, Matt? I was looking for it yesterday when I started. I didn’t see it. You need my email so I can get your resume over here?” Scaramucci said.
Boyle, who started the interview saying Washington had “forgotten” about working- and middle-class people in areas including the Rust Belt, laughed and responded, “Anthony, I’m honored. Maybe we can talk about that later.”
Breitbart has been a major force during President Trump’s administration, with a number of its former employees now serving in the White House and focusing on areas such as economic globalism and terrorism.
White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is the former executive chairman of the controversial far-right publication. National security aide Sebastian Gorka, who has recently been one of the administration’s most vocal media critics, previously served as the publication’s national security editor.
Julia Hahn, who worked as a staff writer at Breitbart, joined the White House as a special assistant to Trump, while former Breitbart columnist Tera Dahl also served in the White House as the National Security Council’s deputy chief of staff until she left in July.
Scaramucci’s praise for Breitbart comes as the Trump administration has taken a combative tone with mainstream news outlets, such as The Washington Post, The New York Times and CNN.
Trump accused the Times on Saturday of foiling a U.S. attack on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a tweet.
Trump’s newly appointed communications chief, who made his first appearance before reporters at the White House on Friday, knocked mainstream media outlets during his interview with Breitbart.
“My goal is to continue to penetrate through that shell and hopefully over time, too, to see if we can do something to de-escalate some element of that media bias and see if we can, you know, get a little bit more objectivity and fairness in the system, because I know you can look at it objectively and see that it isn’t fair right now,” he said.