Ex-Trump official issues grim warning to 'nefarious' president: 'This will unwind him'

Donald Trump has been criticized by a former aide who believes the president is personally profiting from the war in the Middle East.

Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as the White House Communications Director in Trump's first term, claimed that the Trump family is aiming to leverage the war and position of Donald Trump to build family wealth. Speaking to Legal AF, Scaramucci issued a warning to Trump and claimed corruption within the administration had hit a new high.

"People don't feel like he [Trump] is helping them at all," Legal AF host Sidney Blumenthal said. "He's welched on all of his promises in his second term. But more than that, there's something else going on. He's building a kleptocracy. He's stealing like crazy, from what I hear.

"I hear all kinds of anecdotes from all kinds of business people about what's going on and every way he's stealing. If you had a flashlight and wanted to look for where Trump was stealing, what would you look for? Where would you look?"

Scaramucci replied, "You would look in the Middle East. There's a lot of money that's been drafted to him in the Middle East for different things. There are a lot of donors who have given him money that have influenced his policy decisions. There's a lot going on. The insider trading is legendary.

"He's making announcements on Sunday. They're trading the markets, and then he's reversing those announcements before they can close out the positions. They've told people they want to be the richest family when he leaves office, and that they're estimating three or four billion dollars.

"It took 250 years, 47 elections. You finally got somebody in the seat that is malevolent and nefarious and a self-dealer to this extent. Yes, I know we had different scandals over time, but we're talking about mega, mega corruption. This will unwind him and unwind his party because if you look at what Viktor Orbán did, okay, Trump's got his playbook.

"Manipulate and intimidate the media, crush the judges, expand executive immunity, graft corruption, kleptocracy, and funnel the money to myself and then also see if I can alter and corrupt the elections and the electoral process. He's doing everything."