White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said new communications director Anthony Scaramucci let his passion for serving President Donald Trump "get the best of him" when he made explosive remarks about fellow Trump administration staffers Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon.
"This is a guy who sometimes uses colorful and in many circles probably not appropriate language," the newly named press secretary said on Fox news Thursday, addressing Scaramucci’s explicit interview with The New Yorker in which he called Priebus a “f—— paranoid schizophrenic,” and said of Bannon, "I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own c—."
"He’s very passionate about the president and the president’s agenda and I think he may have let that get the best of him in that conversation," Sanders added.
Despite the feuding between Scaramucci, Bannon and Priebus spilling into public view, Sanders maintained that the White House is focused on fulfilling its obligations to the American people and not getting caught up in personnel squabbles.
"The bottom line is most of us here at the White House are focused on who has a job out in America, not who has a job here," she said.
Scaramucci in recent days has come out swinging from within the West Wing, publicly threatening to "fire everybody" to stop damaging reports from leaking to the press and daring Priebus to come forth and probe that he is not one of the senior administration officials allegedly leaking information.
Prior to Sanders appearance on Fox, Scaramucci tweeted that he would seek to stop using his “colorful language” in the public sphere.
“I sometimes use colorful language,” he tweeted. “I will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for @realDonaldTrump’s agenda. #MAGA”
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