The BBC’s Emily Maitlis spoke with Trump’s new bullshit artist Anthony Scaramucci on Wednesday night. After he explained how he didn’t like the “backstabbing” going on in Washington and that Trump and he “front-stabbed” people [groan], Maitlis began to ask about how excruciating and unpopular the Obamacare repeal attempts have been. Scaramucci interrupted.
--It’s too early. Too early. Well, we know that’s a congregational setting, there’s a lot of conversations going on. If you’ve read Team of Rivals, it took Lincoln three or four times to get what he wanted from the Senate, from the House of Representatives—which was the full abolition of slavery. That was a much tougher thing to get done than what we are working on now but—
But … it’s not the same thing. At all. Even remotely. In many respects, it’s in the opposite world of things that history will look upon as master-strokes by politicians to move America into a better more humane future. The crazy begins around the 2:40 mark below.