Scaramucci once asked Barack Obama on live TV if he’d be softer on Wall Street. It didn’t end well.
Long before he became President Donald Trump’s White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci was a simple hedge fund manager getting shut down by Barack Obama.
In 2010, as the nation was digging its way out of the 2008 financial collapse, Scaramucci took the microphone at a CNBC town hall to ask the then-president — a former Harvard classmate and sometimes opponent on the basketball court — whether he planned to “stop whacking at the Wall Street piñata.”
Scaramucci didn’t get the answer he was looking for. Read more. (7/22/17, 11:44 PM)