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"The president is thinking about pardoning nobody," Anthony Scaramucci said. 
  
 | Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo Scaramucci: 'The president is thinking about pardoning nobody' 
  
 New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci insisted that President Donald Trump isn't considering any pardons for family members or staffers targeted by special counsel Robert Mueller, and also dismissed Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a lawyer linked to Russian intelligence as a "non-event." 
  
 "The president is thinking about pardoning nobody," Scaramucci said in a combative interview Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." 
  
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 After host Jake Tapper pressed him on why Trump would tweet about his pardon powers, Scaramucci responded: "It has been coming up a lot, because there's an undercurrent of nonsensical stuff." 
  
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 Tapper interjected: "Because he has asked advisers about it." 
  
 "Oh, come on, Jake," responded Scaramucci, founder of the investment firm SkyBridge Capital. "This is the problem with the whole system. He's the president of the United States. If I turn to one of my staff members at SkyBridge and ask them a question and they run out to the news media and tell everyone what I'm thinking about, is that fair to the president?" 
  
 "The truth of the matter is that the president isn't going to have to pardon anybody, because the Russia thing is a nonsensical thing," Scaramucci continued. 
  
 Scaramucci, who said the White House needed to be better about its messaging, also alleged the investigations into a meeting among Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner and a lawyer with ties to Russian intelligence agencies were much ado about nothing. 
  
 "Once they realized there was no legitimacy to it, people were walking out or they were on their iPhones," he said. "It was a non-event, and if we want to turn it into a two-week, four-week news cycle, that's fine. But it was a non-event." 
  
 During the interview, Scaramucci also cited an anonymous expert as suggesting that if the Russian hackers were messing with the 2016 election, Americans would never have found out about it because they were so good at it. 
  
 When pressed by Tapper as to who the expert was, Scaramucci said it was Trump: "How about it was — how about it was the president, Jake?" 
  
 After Tapper reiterated that "the consensus of the intelligence community" was that the Russians had intervened, Scaramucci clarified the president's views. 
  
 "I talked to him yesterday. He called me from Air Force One," he added. "And he basically said to me, hey, you know, this is — maybe they did it. Maybe they didn't do it." 
  
  ||||| President Trump’s attorney on Sunday emphasized that he and the president have not discussed the subject of pardons. 
  
 “We have not and I continue to not have conversations with the president of the United States about pardons,” Jay Sekulow told ABC’s “This Week.” 
  
 Sekulow’s comments come one day after Trump mentioned the presidential power to pardon on Twitter. 
  
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 “While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us.FAKE NEWS,” Trump said Saturday. 
  
 The president has previously dismissed the investigation into Russia’s election meddling and any potential ties between Trump campaign staff members and Russia associated as a “witch hunt.” 
  
 “Pardons have not been discussed. Pardons are not on the table,” Sekulow stressed during his television appearance on Sunday. 
  
 But Sekulow said a court would have to decide if the president could grant himself a pardon, noting the issue has never been adjudicated. 
  
 “We’re not researching the issue because the issue of pardons is not on the table. There’s nothing to pardon from,” Sekulow said. ||||| Tweet with a location 
  
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 The Mogul and the Mooch have the same fluid relationship with the truth and the same definition of loyalty. 
  
 Donald Trump made it clear in an interview with Michael Schmidt, Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker in The Times on Wednesday that he was hurt that Jeff Sessions essentially put the Constitution over him, calling his attorney general’s decision to recuse himself on the Russia investigation “very unfair to the president.” 
  
 And Politico reported about Scaramucci: “A few years ago, while interviewing PR firms, he was blunt about what he was looking for, according to one person present for the meeting. During the 90-minute meeting, Scaramucci told this person: ‘I need someone who’s prepared to go to the mat and lie for me.’” 
  
 Sean Spicer had the impossible task of defending a president who didn’t believe in telling the truth to a press fixated on the president’s lying. He was impersonated by a woman on “Saturday Night Live” and put up with Steve Bannon calling him fat. He made up a bunch of nonsense about crowd sizes to please a boss who tallies his own personal value by crowd sizes. ||||| Newly appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci acknowledged Saturday that he was deleting old tweets criticizing President Trump. 
  
 "Full transparency: I'm deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & shouldn't be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda & that's all that matters," he wrote on Twitter. 
  
 Full transparency: I'm deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & shouldn't be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda & that's all that matters — Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 22, 2017 
  
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 Reports of Scaramucci deleting years-old tweets surfaced Friday, including two tweets from 2012 in which he called Trump "so smart with no judgment" and called Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWoman behind pro-Trump Facebook page denies being influenced by Russians Trump: CNN, MSNBC 'got scammed' into covering Russian-organized rally Pennsylvania Democrats set to win big with new district map MORE "incredibly competent." 
  
 Scaramucci's comments in 2015 referring to Trump as a "hack" politician also garnered attention after he was appointed to a senior post in the Trump White House. 
  
 He said during a White House press briefing Friday that Trump "brings it up every 15 seconds." 
  
 "One of the biggest mistakes I made, because I was an inexperienced person in the world of politics. I was supporting another candidate. I should have never said that about him," he said. 
  
 "So Mr. President, if you’re listening, I personally apologize for the 50th time for saying that." 
  
 The new communications director's appointment came as Sean Spicer resigned as White House press secretary on the day after Trump's six-month mark in office. ||||| Washington (CNN) US President Donald Trump remains unconvinced that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 election, his new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said on Sunday. 
  
 "He basically said to me, 'Hey you know, this is, maybe they did it, maybe they didn't do it,'" Scaramucci said of a recent conversation he'd had with the President about alleged Russian interference. 
  
 Prior to Trump's inauguration, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unclassified report showing the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency all concluded the Russian government attempted to influence the election to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Trump. 
  
 Scaramucci, speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," suggested Trump does not yet accept the conclusion of the intelligence community and questioned the media's pursuit of the story, saying it tarnished Trump's victory in November. 
  
 "The mainstream media position on this, that they interfered in the election," Scaramucci said. "It actually in his mind, what are you guys suggesting? You're going to delegitimize his victory?" 
  
 Scaramucci said he intended to review the intelligence community's evidence once he had his security clearance and pledged to give Trump his personal thoughts on the conclusions. He said Trump would make up his own mind in time and that if Trump believed Russia was responsible for the 2016 efforts and a threat to future elections, he would act. 
  
 "A person that's going to be super, super tough on Russia is President Donald J. Trump," Scaramucci said. 
  
 Trump has offered varied responses on Russian efforts to influence the election over the past few months. Speaking ahead of his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in early July, Trump said, "It was Russia, and I think it was probably others also." He also cast doubt on the strength of the intelligence community's conclusions, citing the erroneous assessment that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. 
  
 On Sunday, Trump posted a tweet that called the Russia probe a "witch hunt," saying Democrats were using the Russian hacking allegations as an "excuse for a lost election." 
  
 "As the phony Russian Witch Hunt continues, two groups are laughing at this excuse for a lost election taking hold, Democrats and Russians!" he wrote. 
  
 In a separate interview earlier on CNN's "State of the Union," Democratic Sen. Al Franken appeared at a loss, responding, "What can you say? It's just bizarre." 
  
 'Mr. President, I apologize' 
  
 Prior to becoming a Trump supporter, Scaramucci had backed Scott Walker and criticized Trump on several occasions. He wrote a scathing piece last year arguing against what he called "unbridled demagoguery" taking over the GOP. Asked about his shift of position, Scaramucci said both he and Trump didn't care, and addressed the President directly. 
  
 "If I said some things about him when I was working from another candidate, Mr. Trump, Mr. President, I apologize for that," Scaramucci said. 
  
 He dismissed the scrutiny around his past comments as part of an unfair political purity test, and said it was totally untrue that he was suppressing his own beliefs to get closer to the power and prestige of the White House. 
  
 And now that he is in his new job, Scaramucci said it was time for things to change in the White House communications shop. 
  
 "There's obviously a communications problem," Scaramucci said. 
  
 For one thing, he said in his own opinion -- which he said was not the final decision -- the White House should agree to put press briefings on camera again. For another, he said he would address leaks to the press from within the White House on Monday. 
  
 He said he would tell the staff, "If we don't stop the leaks, I'm going to stop you." 
  
 Executive power 
  
 Fresh on the job, Scaramucci found himself talking about one of the President's tweets. 
  
 Following a story in The Washington Post that stated Trump and his legal team were exploring the mechanics of the President's pardoning authority, including whether he could pardon himself, Trump tweeted, "While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS." 
  
 While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us.FAKE NEWS — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2017 
  
 Scaramucci said that despite the report and the tweets, Trump was not actually considering pardoning anyone, including himself. 
  
 "The President is thinking about pardoning nobody," Scaramucci said. "The President is not going to have to pardon anybody because the Russian thing is a nonsensical thing." 
  
 Russia sanctions 
  
 As for a bill that would increase sanctions on Russia and give Congress a check on the administration's authority to offer Russia sanctions relief, Scaramucci said it was still up in the air whether Trump would sign it, should it pass. 
  
 "You've got to ask President Trump that," Scaramucci said. |||||
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New White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci captured most of the headlines from the Sunday talk shows. Among other things, he rejected the idea that President Trump is considering pardons and defended his own move to delete old tweets in which he was critical of Trump. Details: Pardons: "The president is thinking about pardoning nobody," he said on CNN, adding that Trump "is not going to have to pardon anybody because the Russian thing is a nonsensical thing." (Trump tweeted about the power of presidential pardons on Saturday.) Pardons, take II: Trump attorney Jay Sekulow also dismissed the idea of pardon discussions, per the Hill. “We have not and I continue to not have conversations with the president of the United States about pardons,” he said on ABC's This Week. Not convinced: Scaramucci said Trump is still not convinced Russia interfered in the election. "He basically said to me, 'Hey you know, this is, maybe they did it, maybe they didn't do it.'" He also said he was speaking with somebody recently who asserted that if the Russians did indeed meddle, they would leave behind no evidence of it. Upon questioning, he told Jake Tapper the person who said that was, in fact, Trump, per Politico. Deleting tweets: Earlier over the weekend, Scaramucci deleted old tweets critical of Trump, explaining that "past views evolved & shouldn't be a distraction." The Hill notes that Scaramucci also publicly apologized to Trump on Friday. Moving on: "If I said some things about [Trump] when I was working for another candidate, Mr. Trump, Mr. President, I apologize for that. Can we move on off of that?" he said Sunday. Old column: One piece of criticism gaining attention is a 2016 column Scaramucci wrote for Fox Business in which he warned about "unbridled demagoguery" taking over the GOP. He did not, however, mention Trump by name in the column. Maureen Dowd: In her New York Times column, Dowd describes Scaramucci as a "wealthy mini-me Manhattan bro" who has much in common with Trump, including a big ego. But she says the hire won't solve the president's big problem, that being the "existential threat" posed by special investigator Robert Mueller. Trump, she writes, doesn't get that Mueller is not some "contractor" he can bully and intimidate.