Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci called Republican lawmakers “spineless sycophants” for traveling to Manhattan to support Donald Trump in his ongoing criminal hush money trial.
Scaramucci made the comment in a CNN interview on Monday after Republican Sens. J.D. Vance (OH.) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) spoke outside the Manhattan courthouse defending Trump who is on trial for allegedly falsifying business records to pay hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
Trump is “destroying the Republican Party,” Scaramucci said in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
“Very few people with any backbone are left in that party,” he added, “And those people standing out there, they’re just spineless sycophants.”
Speaking outside the courthouse on Monday, Vance railed against the trial in true Trumpian style complete with hand gestures similar to the former president. Tuberville also called the trial election interference and complained that the former president is not being properly respected in court.
“They’re signaling to Donald Trump. It’s sort of even a mimetic thing. You saw him with his hands like this,” Scaramucci said about Vance imitating Trump’s gestures. “He’s trying to even act and speak like Trump. And I would tell him to shave the beard, though. Trump doesn’t like beards. So, J.D., if you’re watching, if you really wanna be as obsequious as you look, you gotta shave that beards ’cause he doesn’t like those beards.”
More Republican lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) showed up outside the courthouse on Tuesday to support Trump.
