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The Mooch Unceremoniously Forced Out Of Another Position

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The Mooch has reportedly taken another fall.

According to Daniel Drezner, a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and diplomacy at Tufts University, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has stepped down from the Board of Advisors at the school after threatening a lawsuit against a graduate student, Camilo Caballero, and the university’s newspaper.

The brouhaha started when Caballero wrote two editorials in which he argued that Scaramucci should not serve in the board. Meanwhilem another student at the school, Carter Banker, created a petition last month to have Scaramucci removed.

Scaramucci’s lawyer wrote a letter in November threatening legal action against The Tufts Daily newspaper if it failed to “retract the false statements and issue a public apology.” That prompted Drezner to write in The Washington Post, “Caballero stepped over the line in criticizing Fletcher for inviting Scaramucci to speak. With these legal shenanigans, however, the Mooch has traveled about three counties past the line, and just kept on going. First of all, who in the hell looks at a student op-ed in a student newspaper and decides to sue the student and the newspaper?”

On Monday, Scaramucci wrote an open letter to students and faculty in which he addressed the petition as well as other criticism from Caballero and others. He started by addressing Banker:

You were quoted in the Tufts Daily stating that I am a “hypocrite” and “opportunist.” Your classmate, Camilo Caballero, wrote in the Tufts Daily that I am “an irresponsible, inconsistent, and unethical opportunist and who exuded the highest degree of disreputability.” Another one of your classmates, Christopher Ellison, told the Tufts Daily that my “wanton vulgarity is incommensurate with the decorum and dignity that our school must stand for.” …

I trust we agree that my affiliation with the Republican Party is not disqualifying for service on the Fletcher School’s Advisory Board. Thus, I assume your quarrel is with my support for President Trump — the democratically-elected President of the United States who won 2,626 out of 3,141 American counties, including 217 counties that President Obama won in 2012.

Scaramucci addressed the charge that he was a hypocrite, writing:

You have likely supported a political candidate with whom you have strong policy disagreements. President Obama, for example, opposed marriage equality for almost his entire first term. Was it hypocritical for gay rights advocates to work for his administration?

He added:

I want to address Mr. Caballero’s characterization of me as an “irresponsible, inconsistent, and unethical opportunist and who exuded the highest degree of disreputability.” I have worked in the investment management industry for 28 years since graduating from law school. During that time, I have received zero material customer complaints (as evidenced by my pristine Form ADV). I have never been named as a defendant in a lawsuit.

Addressing the third student, he wrote:

I would also like to address Mr. Ellison’s statement that my “wanton vulgarity is incommensurate with the decorum and dignity that our school must stand for.” I mishandled my conversation with The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza on July 26th. I take full responsibility for my actions. I naïvely thought I was having a private, off-the-record conversation. However, while my words were colorful, they harmed nobody (other than myself). And while my words were salty, they were mostly true (albeit, in spots, metaphorical).

He continued:

Finally, you stated that “over and over again, he has displayed very, very poor judgment.” I have made plenty of mistakes in my life, but it is a long leap from one ill-advised five-minute phone conversation and one misunderstood tweet to “over and over again.” … I am a more complex and, candidly, better person than you give me credit for.

Scaramucci concluded:

The Fletcher School is renowned for its education around public service and diplomacy. The school’s website reads, “Welcome to an Inclusive Campus.” Unfortunately, on college campuses across the country, students and faculty increasingly preach tolerance and free speech only if you agree with their ideas. Tufts can and must do better… you will learn much more by talking to people with whom you disagree. I hope we can use this controversy as an opportunity to begin, rather than end, a mutually beneficial conversation.

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