Anthony Scaramucci's Rant at a New Yorker Reporter Generated Massive Spikes in Traffic and Subscriptions

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On the evening of July 26, Anthony Scaramucci, the newly named White House communications director, called a political reporter at The New Yorker. Scaramucci called to complain to Ryan Lizza, the magazine’s Washington correspondent, about how he learned information that Scaramucci was positive shouldn’t have been “leaked.”

During the call, Scaramucci ended up dropping conspiracy theories and interjections of foul language folded in between Scaramucci’s vocal disdain for Steve Bannon, a chief strategist to the president, and Reince Priebus, the president’s now former chief of staff.

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