Anthony Scaramucci Breaks Down The 3 Stages Of Trump Employment Syndrome'

Anthony Scaramucci on Thursday broke down the three stages of what he called “Trump Employment Syndrome” in a scathing op-ed for The Washington Post . 

Namely, the cycle that people go through working for President Donald Trump .

“The typical person who has worked for Trump or who currently supports him at one point found him very odd,” wrote Scaramucci, whose tenure as White House communications director in 2017 ended after just 11 days. He has since become a fierce critic of the Trump administration.

Scaramucci noted how he himself, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), White House counselor Kellyanne Conway , Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and others prior to the 2016 election “made public statements  against then-candidate Trump and criticized his bizarre taunts and misbehavior.”

But after Trump won, Scaramucci said the second part of the cycle kicked in and they tried “to see the positives, beginning a process of cognitive dissonance and moral equivocation” during which “respect for the office of the presidency” allowed them “to normalize what he is doing.”

The third stage, he wrote, is binary.

Explained Scaramucci:

Eventually, after you’ve realized you can’t mitigate the worst outcomes or moderate the president at all, you must either disavow your self-worth and personal integrity or else stand up and speak out.

Scaramucci’s column ostensibly was a letter of support for John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser who nows finds himself at the center of a pro-Trump disinformation campaign after reportedly confirming the Democrats ’ case for the impeachment of the president in his forthcoming book.

“I, for one, never felt more alive than when the president of the United States called me an ‘unstable nutjob’ on Twitter,” Scaramucci concluded his op-ed.

“His bullying and intimidating methods have frozen many in his party, but when I began receiving them myself, I realized I was finally free,” he wrote. “Bolton might learn that speaking the truth is the best method of recovery for Trump Employment Syndrome.” 

Read Scaramucci’s full column here.