Scaramucci: Trump ‘has lost his fighting spirit’

Anthony Scaramucci, a former White House communications director under former President Trump, said that the former president has “lost his fighting spirit,” claiming that it doesn’t appear to him that Trump wants to debate Vice President Harris a second time.

“I thought it was a ruse that he didn’t want to debate by President Harris, but it appears that he’s actually lost his fighting spirit. There is something wrong,” Scaramucci wrote in a post on the social platform X on Monday.

Scaramucci’s post seems to be a flip-flop from past statements he made about how he views Trump’s willingness to debate Harris again.

“It’s 100% that he’s gonna debate,” Scaramucci told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview earlier this month.

Scaramucci, an outspoken critic of Trump, attended the ABC News presidential debate earlier this month as a guest of Harris.

When contacted for comment, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said, “Nobody is going to listen to someone who barely lasted more time than an expired ham sandwich as White House communications director,” referring to Scaramucci’s 10-day stint in the role.

Harris told reporters that she wants another debate as recent as this past weekend, The Hill reported.

On Sept. 12, two days after the first debate between Harris and Trump but Trump’s second debate this election cycle, Trump said that he wouldn’t do another one.

“There will be no third debate,” Trump had posted in all-caps on Truth Social.

Updated at 1:23 pm EDT.