Scaramucci fires White House leaker!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 25, 2017 - President Donald Trump’s new communications director promised he would crack down on the illegal leaks coming from inside the White House.

Tuesday morning, he started cleaning house.

Anthony Scaramucci identified his first suspected leaker Tuesday - former White House assistant press secretary Michael Short - and dismissed him. Short’s ouster is Scaramucci’s first warning shot to White House aides who have been perceived as disloyal to the president. In an echo of Trump’s not-so-subtle warning to Jeff Sessions about his status as attorney general, Scaramucci’s vow to fire everybody is a warning to staffers perceived as leakers.

Speaking to reporters, Scaramucci said that he was “not doing an investigation. I’m just going to get the leaking to stop.” He stressed that he had “the authority from the president to do that.”

“You’re either going to stop leaking, or you’re going to get fired,” Scaramucci warned.

The Trump regime has been troubled by numerous damaging leaks to media. The president has criticized the leaks and urged authorities to prosecute the illegal acts.

Scaramucci said Tuesday he did not know Short, but “the person who wanted me to fire him outranks me” and promised that the rest of the communications staff had amnesty as long as they “stop leaking”.

Short was scorned by many of his colleagues for quitting the Trump campaign, only to rejoin as a White House staffer because of Chief of Staff Rance Priebus. In a story often retold by campaign staffers, they arrived at Trump Tower one morning, months before the election, to see Short’s computer left open on his otherwise empty desk.

“The next time he was seen by former campaign staffers was in January, on their first day in the White House, where some were stunned to learn that they were going to have to work alongside him, or for some of the press assistants, subordinate to him.

Short has vigorously denied being a leaker.

Trump appointed Scaramucci as Communications Director Friday. The Wall Street hedge fund manager is a polished television commentator, and has announced plans to bring in private sector communications professionals to polish-up the White House’s image.

Sean Spicer resigned last week as Press Secretary. His deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has been named to replace him.