
He was head of communications in the White House for eleven days, and today Antony Scaramucci warns of a “soft dictatorship” under Donald Trump and looks at his investments.
Former Trump communications chief and hedge fund manager Antony Scaramucci warns of a “soft dictatorship” in the Handelsblatt Invest podcast and calls for Donald Trump to be politically removed.
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Antony Scaramucci was US President Donald Trump's communications chief for eleven days in the summer of 2017 before he was replaced.
Frankfurt. Eleven days – that’s how long Antony Scaramucci’s time as Donald Trump’s communications chief lasted. The New York hedge fund manager has now recovered well from his quick and dramatic dismantling in the summer of 2017 and is aggressive. “We have to get rid of Trump,” he says in the Handelsblatt Invest podcast.
The 62-year-old runs the hedge fund he founded, Skybridge Capital, which is invested in Anthropic and SpaceX, among others. His second mainstay is his podcast “The Rest is Politics US,” in which he speaks out as a critic of the president. Scaramucci is particularly worried that Trump will lead the country into a “soft dictatorship” and plunge the economy into a crisis.
After the CDU's election defeats, journalist Gordon Repinski and presenter Markus Lanz warn on the ZDF program "Markus Lanz" of a fundamental crisis in the political system in Germany. They emphasize that structural problems in energy policy, migration, education and the welfare state have arisen over years and cannot be solved by a change of government. SPD district mayor Martin Hikel and economist Monika Schnitzer also expressed concerns about the marginalization of the center and ineffective social spending.

After the Left's election victory in Berlin, the accusation of anti-Semitism has become a coalition hurdle: the SPD, Greens and CDU are calling for clear sanctions against anti-Semitic party members, while the Central Council of Jews sees a structural problem and warns of a threat to Jewish life.

The criticism of an overreaching state contrasts with the constant calls for state aid when energy prices rise. Politicians themselves helped to create these demands through measures such as tax cuts and fuel discounts.

Rising rents in Berlin are leading to intensive debates about the socialization of large housing groups in accordance with Article 15 of the Basic Law. While a commission of experts considers this to be legally possible, there are fierce legal and political conflicts.
The Stendal public prosecutor's office is investigating AfD MEP Arno Bausemer on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm in a dispute over an election poster. He was also caught driving drunk.

After a neck-and-neck race, the Left Party won the House of Representatives election in Berlin with 25.7 percent. The CDU came in second with 18.8 percent.