Donald Trump had openly admitted that he was "playacting" while running for president in 2016 and was aware his act was "all a lie," according to Anthony Scaramucci.
Scaramucci, who lasted just 10 days as Trump's White House Communications Director before being fired in July 2017, made the remarks as part of a New York Times article highlighting the former president's state of mind in and around the January 6 attack.
Scaramucci, who is now a vocal and frequent critic of Trump, suggested that Trump was well aware the 2020 Election was not stolen and that his attempts to overturn the results were illegal, but continued to push the "big lie" to his supporters regardless—behavior which Scaramucci claimed is reminiscent of his first run for the presidency.
"I do believe that President Trump knows that the whole thing that he is doing is a ruse," Scaramucci told The New York Times.
"On more than one occasion throughout the campaign [in 2016] he would turn to me and others and say funny things like, 'Why can't people realize what you guys realize about me, that I am playacting and full of it at least 50 percent of the time?' That sort of joking. So he knows that this is all a lie."
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