Spicer resigns as Trump's press secretary!

Scaramucci appointed White House communications director.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 21, 2017 - It's official: moments ago the much anticipated departure of (now former) White House press secretary and communications director Sean Spicer took place. According to The New York Times, Spicer resigned on Friday morning, "telling President (Donald) Trump he vehemently disagreed with the appointment of New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director." Trump offered Scaramucci the job at 10:00 a.m. The president requested that Spicer stay on, but Spicer told Trump that he believed the appointment was a major mistake, according to an unnamed person claiming direct knowledge of the exchange.

Subsequently, it was reported that Spicer's position as press secretary would be taken over by Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Meanwhile, Trump appointed former SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci as White House Communications Director.

Scaramucci has been a vocal supporter of the president, having served in a top financial advisory role on Trump’s campaign. He has been an ardent defender of the president in television interviews.

He was also the subject of the recent hit piece from CNN that the network was forced to retract and apologize to him for, a piece that inaccurately accused him of being under multiple investigations - he is not under any - for meetings that never happened with Russian bankers. Three senior CNN editorial officials resigned over the story, amounting to what is still developing into one of the biggest scandals in journalistic history.

While news of Scaramucci's appointment first broke on Thursday night, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus tried to scuttle the appointment of Scaramucci due to a reported long-running feud with him, according to Breitbart, which adds that Steve Bannon, the ex-Executive Chairman of Breitbart News now the White House chief strategist, also objected to the Scaramucci appointment.

Bannon and Priebus have an alliance inside the White House where they are frequently at loggerheads with the “West Wing Democrats” like National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, Jared Kusher, Ivanka Trump, and others.

Those opposed to the Scaramucci appointment did not succeed.