I'm putting together coalition to stop unstable Trump in 2020: Scaramucci

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has said that he is putting together a coalition of former Donald Trump Cabinet officials to denounce the “unstable” US president ahead of the 2020 election.

"I'm in the process of putting together a team of people that feel the exact same way that I do. This is not a 'Never Trump' situation. This not just screeching rhetoric. This is -- OK, the guy is unstable. Everyone inside knows it, everyone outside knows it. Let's see if we can find a viable alternative," Scaramucci told CNN on Monday.

"Moreover, I have to get some former Cabinet officials in unity to speak up about it. They know it's a crisis," he added.

 Scaramucci predicted that by "middle to late fall" there will be a "trove" of people willing to speak out against Trump.

The battle of words between Scaramucci and Trump has escalated in recent weeks.

Earlier on Monday, Trump blasted Scaramucci, calling him a “nut job” that he “barely knew”.

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the former White House Communications director claimed Trump will drop out of the race for the 2020 presidential election and will not seek re-election.

In another interview, Scaramucci said Trump has “gone off the rails,” and added that he is “sounding more and more nonsensical.”

Trump on Monday responded with scorched-earth tactics.

“Anthony Scaramucci is a highly unstable 'nut job' who was with other candidates in the primary who got shellaced, and then unfortunately wheedled his way into my campaign. I barely knew him until his 11 days of gross incompetence-made a fool of himself, bad on TV. Abused staff...got fired. Wrote a very nice book about me just recently. Now the book is a lie?” Trump tweeted Monday.

Scaramucci wrote a favorable book about Trump’s rise to the presidency that was published in October 2018.

“Said his wife was driving him crazy, ‘something big’ was happening with her,' Trump continued with his tweet. "Getting divorced. He was a mental wreck. We didn’t want him around. Now Fake News puts him on like he was my buddy!”

Last week, Trump took to Twitter, charging that Scaramucci was “totally incapable of handling” the role of White House communications chief.

A day later, Scaramucci said on CNN that Trump had “gone off the rails,” adding, the president was “sounding more and more nonsensical.”

Scaramucci compared the US president to a “demagogue” and insisted the Trump administration’s conservative policy agenda is not worth the damage the Republican has inflicted upon America’s democratic institutions.

PressTV-Trump to quit 2020 race within months: Ex-top aide

President Trump will drop out of the 2020 race within months, says former top aide Anthony Scaramucci.

A new poll showed on Wednesday that Trump's disapproval rating had risen to 56 percent.

The Fox News poll found a 5 percentage point boost in Trump's disapproval rating from last month when 51 respondents disapproved the president’s performance.

In October 2017, Trump’s disapproval rating reached a record high of 57 percent, according to Fox News.

Only 43 people contacted for the latest survey said they approve of Trump's job performance, down from 46 percent last month.

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