The Mooch is on the loose — and President Trump’s new attack dog is one angry, angry pooch.
White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci launched into a tirade for the ages against his rivals and leakers in the Trump administration.
Scaramucci’s full-frontal, expletive-laden assault first targeted White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
“Reince is a f—ing paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci said in a Wednesday night phone call to Ryan Lizza, a writer for The New Yorker.
Scaramucci accused Priebus of, among other things, leaking to the press a dinner President Trump held earlier that night with the First Lady, Fox News host Sean Hannity and former Fox News executive Bill Shine.
Scaramucci channeled Priebus as he railed on the phone: “‘Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the f—ing thing and see if I can c–k-block these people the way I c–k-blocked Scaramucci for six months.'”
Later in the call, after he promised to fire three to four people “by tomorrow,” the former Wall Street hedge fund titan unleashed his below-the-belt venom on White House strategist Stephen Bannon.
“I’m not Steve Bannon,” Scaramucci said after insisting he had no interest in media attention.
“I’m not trying to suck my own c–k. I’m not trying to build my own brand off the f—ing strength of the President. I’m here to serve the country.”
The potty-mouthed Trump sidekick, nicknamed Mooch, still had more to say about the White House staffers he views as disloyal.
“What I want to do is I want to f—ing kill all the leakers and I want to get the President’s agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people,” Scaramucci said.
“This is going to get cleaned up very shortly, OK? Because I nailed these guys. I’ve got digital fingerprints on everything they’ve done through the FBI and the f—ing Department of Justice.”
Scaramucci abruptly cut off the call.
“Yeah, let me go, though, because I’ve gotta start tweeting some s–t to make this guy crazy,” he told Lizza.
The bonkers phone call turned out to be just the start of a bewildering stretch for Scaramucci.
Shortly after hanging up, he fired off a tweet that not-so-subtly outed Priebus as a leaker — and quickly went viral.
“In light of the leak of my financial info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45,” it read.
He deleted the tweet a couple of hours later and replaced it with a new one just before 1 a.m. that denied he was targeting Priebus.
Less than seven hours after the over-the-top exchange, Scaramucci called in to CNN’s “New Day” — on which Lizza was discussing Mooch’s rift with Priebus — and tore into his chief White House rival in an off-the-wall live TV interview.
Scaramucci seemed to be calling out Priebus for leaking his financial disclosure forms — even though the information was actually publicly available. The forms showed Scaramucci made at least $10 million last year from his investment firm SkyBridge Capital and his work at the Export-Import Bank.
“If Reince wants to explain he’s not a leaker, let him do that,” a furious Scaramucci said.
He called the latest leak “so treasonous that 150 years ago people would have been hung.”
Scaramucci, who has vowed to take down leakers in the White House, once described Priebus as his “brother.”
On CNN, he said they were brothers like “Cain and Abel” — the biblical siblings whose relationship ended with Cain murdering Abel.
There has been speculation that Scaramucci is gunning to take over Priebus’ position as chief of staff, and that the former Wall Street honcho views Priebus as too much of a Washington insider.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders wouldn’t offer any words of assurance that Priebus’ position was safe.
But she said Trump is apparently amused by all the bickering. “The President likes that type of competition and encourages it,” she said.
By Thursday evening, a few hours after the account of his phone call hit the Internet, a more subdued Scaramucci resurfaced on Twitter.
“I sometimes use colorful language. I will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for @realDonaldTrump’s agenda. #MAGA,” he posted.
Scaramucci also appeared to have failed to see the irony in his heated rhetoric regarding leaks. “I made a mistake in trusting in a reporter. It won’t happen again,” he tweeted.