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WASHINGTON President Donald Trump signed a bill on Wednesday imposing new sanctions on Russia, putting to rest questions about whether he would support the legislation passed overwhelmingly by Congress last week while he still excoriated the measure as "significantly flawed."

The bill sanctions Russia citing its cyberhacking as well as aggression in Ukraine and Syria while also slapping new sanctions on North Korea and Iran.

The legislation limits the ability of the president to lift the sanctions unilaterally, something lawmakers had insisted on.

Trump signed the bill behind closed doors, with no press coverage. In one White House statement released after the signing, referred to as the "official signing statement," the president called some of the provisions "clearly unconstitutional."

In a second statement, Trump lamented that the bill "encroaches on the executive branch's authority to negotiate."

"The Framers of our Constitution put foreign affairs in the hands of the President. This bill will prove the wisdom of that choice," Trump said, adding that he signed legislation "for the sake of national unity."

That statement goes on to chastise Congress for an entirely different issue its inability to "negotiate a healthcare bill after seven years of talking" and finishes with a personal note: "I built a truly great company worth many billions of dollars. That is a big part of the reason I was elected. As President, I can make far better deals with foreign countries than Congress."

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters Tuesday that neither he nor President Trump, "were very happy" about the way Congress put these new sanctions in place, but he anticipated the bill would be signed anyway.

"We were clear that we didn't think it was going to be helpful to our efforts, but that's the decision they made, they made it in a very overwhelming way. I think the president accepts that," he said.

The sanctions bill was passed in both chambers of Congress with strong bipartisan support and by veto-proof margins. It passed in the Senate on Thursday with a 98-2 vote and in the House last Tuesday, 419-3.

Lawmakers pushed the sanctions, particularly those against Russia, in spite of the president's conciliatory tone toward the country whose government U.S. intelligence agencies concluded meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Russian government officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have denied the allegations, both in the press and to Trump directly.

Trump has hedged repeatedly on the question of Russian responsibility for election meddling last year, saying it is possible Russia was involved but other countries could have had a role.

Putin voiced his objection to the proposed sanctions last week, accusing the U.S. of attempting to use "geopolitical advantages in competition to pursue economic interests at the expense of [U.S.] allies."

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Donald Trump Signs Russia Sanctions Bill for 'Sake of National Unity' - NBCNews.com

(WASHINGTON) There wasn't a dramatic public break or an exact moment it happened. But step by step, Senate Republicans are turning their backs on President Donald Trump.

They defeated an Obamacare repeal bill despite Trump's pleas. They're ignoring his Twitter demands that they get back to work on the repeal measure. They dissed the White House budget director, defended the attorney general against the president's attacks and passed veto-proof sanctions on Russia over his administration's objections.

They're reasserting their independence, which looked sorely diminished in the aftermath of Trump's surprise election win.

"We work for the American people," Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said Tuesday. "We don't work for the president."

Those are surprisingly tough words from a Republican whose state Trump won easily less than a year ago. But after six months of controversies and historically low approval ratings , it's clear Trump isn't commanding the fear or respect he once did.

Some Republicans no doubt are giving voice to long-held reservations about a man whose election was essentially a hostile takeover of their party. But it is notable that the loudest criticism is coming from the Senate, where few Republicans are burdened with facing an electorate anytime soon. The situation is different in the House, where most Republicans represent conservative districts still loyal to Trump. For those lawmakers, the fear of facing a conservative primary challenger, possibly fueled by angry Trump followers, is real.

In the most remarkable example of public Trump-bashing, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona is taking aim at the president and his own party in a new book, writing that "unnerving silence in the face of an erratic executive branch is an abdication" and marveling at "the strange specter of an American president's seeming affection for strongmen and authoritarians."

The criticism from Flake is especially striking since he is one of just two GOP senators facing competitive re-election races in next year's midterm elections, the other being Dean Heller of Nevada. The other 50 Senate Republicans are largely insulated from blowback from Trump's still-loyal base, at least in the short term.

That is likely contributing to their defiance, which is emerging now after an accumulation of frustrations, culminating in the failure of the health care bill Friday. In particular, senators were aghast over Trump's recent attacks on their longtime colleague Jeff Sessions , the former Alabama senator who is now attorney general and facing Trump's wrath over having recused himself from the investigation into possible collaboration between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina deemed Trump's treatment of Sessions "unseemly" and "a sign of great weakness on the part of President Trump." The comments were echoed by other Republican senators.

Then, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, a former House member, suggested on a Sunday show that the Senate must pass health care before doing anything else. No. 2 Republican John Cornyn didn't hesitate to go after him.

"I don't think he's got much experience in the Senate as I recall, and he's got a big job," Cornyn said. "He ought to do that job and let us do our jobs."

The ill will flows both ways. At Tuesday's White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders pointedly blamed lawmakers for the president's failures to deliver. "I think what's hurting the legislative agenda is Congress' inability to get things passed," she said.

Trump has been ignoring past warnings from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to stay out of the Senate's business, tweeting relentless commands in the wake of Friday's failure on health care that the Senate should eliminate the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to move forward on much major legislation.

"Mitch M, go to 51 Votes NOW and WIN. IT'S TIME!" the president said over Twitter.

That ignored the fact that Republicans tried to pass the health care bill under rules that required only a simple majority.

So Republicans, in turn, ignored Trump.

"It's pretty obvious that our problem on health care was not the Democrats," McConnell said drily on Tuesday. "We didn't have 50 Republicans."

Some Republicans say Trump and his administration only made it harder to pass health care by ineptly pressuring Sen. Lisa Murkowski with threats from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke about consequences for her state, which rankled the Alaska senator. She proceeded to postpone votes in the Energy committee she chairs on a group of administration nominees, while saying it was for unrelated reasons, and voted "no" on the health bill.

"I think most Republican senators have their own identity that's separate from the president," said Alex Conant, a GOP strategist and former adviser to Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. "If you look at the elections last fall, almost every Republican senator who was up for re-election ran ahead of Trump and that's not a fact that's lost on Congress."

The House has been a friendlier place for Trump. Republicans there pushed through a health care bill in May.

"For the most part our caucus is still in support of the president," said Rep. James Comer of Kentucky. "That doesn't mean we agree with everything he says and does, but we still support his agenda, his presidency, and we're not going to fumble the ball."

In the Senate, though, lawmakers and the president appear to be going their separate ways, with some senators talking as though Trump is almost irrelevant.

"Ever since we've been here we've really been following our lead, right?" said Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee. "Whether it was the Supreme Court justice or the Russia sanctions bill, attempting to do health care and obviously we did so unsuccessfully, and now we're moving on to tax reform, but most of this has, almost every bit of this has been 100 percent internal to Congress."

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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking, Matthew Daly and Jill Colvin contributed.

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Senate Republicans Are Slowly Turning Their Backs on Trump - TIME

It is a classic of the form. I went through and pulled out the strangest of the strange Trump lines. They're below in the order Trump said them.

1. "But once you get that motion, it's in pretty good shape, once you get in. It's hard to get in, but once you get in."

Trump is talking here about the motion to proceed on the health care legislation, in case you were wondering.

2. "John McCain was a great help, coming in as he did. And so it was something I very much appreciate, and we'll see what happens."

3. "Many conversations. I just had one with a certain senator that was very convincing to that senator. So I've done a lot."

Hmmm. You would assume this had to do with health care given the timing of the interview. And, if so, was Trump really "very convincing" given that the vote failed hours later?

4. "And I you know, I think I you know, look, just don't quote me on this unless it happens, but I think we have a pretty good shot."

They did quote you. And the vote failed.

5. "If it's repeal and replace, which one do you want to go? Which form of existing conditions? I mean, there's many things."

Here's the truth: Trump isn't a details guy. Never has been. He comes in at the end and uses the power of his #brand and personality to close deals. In this quote he makes clear he knows very, very little about the specific policies being debated in the health care fight. "Which form of existing conditions" is not a phrase anyone who knows the law and the proposed changes says.

6. "It was nice to see you out in Southampton a couple weeks ago."

OK, I'm cheating a little bit here since this quote is from Wall Street Journal executive editor Gerard Baker. But what a quote! He's talking to Ivanka Trump who stopped by the interview. And who says media tycoons don't live like regular people!

7. "He's a good he's a good boy."

According to Politico, Trump is talking about Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, here. And, apparently Jared is a good boy.

8. "If you remember, it was you know, it was an idea that I had very early on, repeal."

Trump appears to be taking credit here for calling for the repeal of an Obamacare, an idea that has been kicking around in Republican circles for almost as long as the Affordable Care Act has existed.

9. "It's a very difficult -- it's a very difficult thing, always has been."

"On my first day in office, I am going to ask Congress to send me a bill to immediately repeal and replace, I just said it, Obamacare." -- Donald Trump, September 2016.

10. "I honestly believe for six months I have done more than just about any president when you look at all of the bills that were passed, 42, 43."

11. "Look, I had 45,000 people there yesterday. It's the biggest crowd they've ever had, and they were they were going wild yesterday in West Virginia."

12. "And, you know, it is it would have been easier to start with taxes, but this is better if it works, OK? If it works, this is better."

So ...Trump thinks, in hindsight, he should have started with tax reform rather than health care? Or no? Yes?

13. "And then I'm going to do a very big we're doing very big trade deals, and we're looking forward to that."

Things to look forward to: "Very big trade deals." So, we got that going for us, which is nice.

14. "She lost easily, you know, 306 to 223 I think, right -- 223, something like that."

This was a question about whether Democrats have any incentive to work with Trump. Also, he won 304 electoral votes.

15. "So you have the governor of Ohio not supporting you and you win by almost 10 points, which is pretty good because Ohio's not if you remember, you guys were always saying you have to win Ohio, right?"

The 2016 election ended 259 days before this interview was conducted.

16. "Biggest crowd they've ever had. What did you think?"

This quotes proves two things. First, Trump is obsessed with crowd size and it always being the biggest and best. Second, he cares deeply what reporters and their editors think of him.

17. "I'd be the first to admit mixed. I'm a guy that will tell you mixed. There was no mix there. That was a standing ovation from the time I walked out to the time I left, and for five minutes after I had already gone. There was no mix."

NO MIX. Trump is insistent that the Boy Scouts crowd loved him. Every second of his speech. One long standing ovation. NO MIX.

18. "I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful."

19. "I call him Mr. Elegant. I mean, that was a great debate. We did such a great job."

Who is Mr. Elegant? Lester Holt, who moderated the first general election debate? Or Maybe CNN's own Anderson Cooper, who moderated the second one? Oh, yeah, Trump is answering a question about his tax policy here. But, he wants you to know he did a great job in that debate.

20. "So I deal with foreign countries, and despite what you may read, I have unbelievable relationships with all of the foreign leaders. They like me. I like them. You know, it's amazing."

Same.

21. "You know, a lot of people say they say, well, but the United States is large. And then you call places like Malaysia, Indonesia, and you say, you know, how many people do you have? And it's pretty amazing how many people they have."

Wait, there are countries that have more people in them than the US??? That IS amazing.

22. "You know, I was with Bob Kraft the other night. He came to have dinner with me. He's a friend of mine."

23. "When George Steinbrenner died, like with the estate taxes, the estate paid nothing."

24. "We think we're going to have tremendous growth. We think money's going to come pouring into the country."

Well, I'm satisfied! [shakes hands, nods, walks away]

25. "They go to Ireland, they go to other -- I own a lot of property in Ireland."

26. "We'll have companies pouring back into our nation. I mean, it's going to be -- you know, it's going to be beautiful."

So, so beautiful.

27. "We have Tim Cook I spoke to, and he's promised me three big plants -- big, big, big."

28."I just don't know if he'd like -- this is off the record -- if he wants to sit down."

It wasn't off the record.

29. "I mean, you don't hear the word Britain anymore. It's very interesting. It's like, nope."

Like, nope.

30. "What would they do with the British Open if they ever got out? They'd no longer have the British Open."

31. "So for a guy to go -- you know, to me, that's almost worse than, like, a triple bogey, because -- but for a guy to go through these horrible holes, hit a bad drive like I've never seen -- I mean, he was 150 yards, right."

In case you needed Trump's thoughts on Jordan Spieth's victory at the Open Championship, here they are.

32. "There'll be certain pieces. It's not -- there'll be certain pieces."

Trump's answer when asked to get specific on what a trade deal with the United Kingdom would look like.

33. "I was last night in West Virginia, and I had farmers coming up to me and hugging me and kissing me because of the cattle stuff."

34. "The word reciprocal, to me, is very important."

I am more of a "reciprocity" guy myself.

35. "We're the people that are getting beat up -- one of the reasons I think I'm talking to -- I'm sitting behind this beautiful desk as opposed to somebody else."

????

36. "Well, we're doing major studies. Oh, I would be very surprised if they will be -- look, we've been extremely nice to them. We've been extremely nice to them in saying they were compliant, OK?"

The president of the United States on Iran.

37. "I know, that's just -- and Anthony will handle that. I can -- Anthony can do that out of his back pocket, OK?"

38. "But I was -- I appointed a man to a position. And then shortly after he gets the position, he recused himself. I said, what's that all about? Why didn't you tell me that you were going to do that, and I wouldn't have appointed you? But I appointed him. And shortly thereafter, he recused himself."

Here's how it went down: First Trump appointed Sessions. Then Sessions recused himself. Then Trump was like "WHAAAAA?"

39. "That's a total witch hunt, the whole Russia story. It's a hoax. It's a hoax. We had no collusion with Russia. We never dealt with Russia."

Trump's oldest son, Don Jr., released an email exchange in which he is told that "incriminating" information about Hillary Clinton has been obtained by a Russian government program. He agrees to meet in hopes of obtaining that information. When the meeting is revealed, Donald Trump is involved in the crafting of Don Jr.'s statement to The New York Times about it -- a statement that is, at best, misleading on the details of why the gathering took place and what was discussed.

40. "You know, I put out a letter from a very -- from the biggest law firm saying Trump has no involvement with Russia. I don't."

41. "So he wasn't in love with me for a short period of time."

Trump on The Mooch. Yes, really.

42. "He looks at 40,000 people and he probably says, what do I have to lose, and he endorsed me. So it's not like a great, loyal thing about the endorsement."

Trump has rewritten history in his own mind to suggest Jeff Sessions, then a senator and now his attorney general, only endorsed him because Trump was so incredibly popular. And, therefore, Sessions deserves no credit for the endorsement.

43. "And if Jeff Sessions didn't recuse himself, we wouldn't even be talking about this subject."

Trump really believes this -- that if Sessions had not recused himself on Russia it would have all disappeared. Which is, um, not right.

44. "I make good deals. I don't make bad deals. I make good deals."

Good deals only here. Bad deals need not apply.

45. "But I'm very happy with Anthony. I think Anthony is going to do amazing."

Scaramucci was pushed out six days after this interview.

Correction: This post has been updated to reflect that Trump was referring to his son-in-law Jared Kushner and not Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker when he used the term "good boy."

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The trade case is said to focus on supposed Chinese violations of American intellectual property.

Meanwhile, in a cutting editorial, Beijing fired back at President Trump over his tweets accusing China of failing to tame its ally North Korea. And Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the U.S. was not seeking regime change in North Korea.

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Defense officials told our national security reporter that the Pentagon and State Department have offered the White House a plan to supply Ukraine with antitank missiles and other arms.

Vice President Mike Pence, visiting Europe, said that President Trump would very soon sign a law limiting his ability to lift forceful new sanctions against Russia and that Moscows destabilizing activities and support for rogue regimes has to change.

Also, the White House confirmed that Mr. Trump was involved in drafting a misleading statement issued by his son about a meeting with a Russian lawyer.

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In Washington, congressional Republicans bypassed the president to work toward bipartisan legislation to shore up the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

And the Senate overwhelmingly confirmed Christopher Wray, above, as the next F.B.I. director.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is preparing to redirect Justice Department resources toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times.

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A new poll shows that global warming is essentially tied with the Islamic State as the most-feared security threat around the world except in the U.S., where cyberattacks and ISIS are considered the greatest dangers.

On to developments in those two realms. Our photojournalist documented harrowing scenes and battlefield calculations at the front lines of the fight against ISIS in Mosul. And Lewis Pugh, a British endurance swimmer, swam 22 minutes in the freezing Arctic Ocean to call attention to climate changes effect on the worlds oceans.

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Volkswagen was barred from receiving European Union research financing over allegations it misused a previous loan to cheat on emissions. The move comes ahead of a meeting on diesel emissions today between automakers and the German government.

Apple exceeded revenue expectations in the quarter that ended July 1 even as buyers waited for new iPhones this fall. But projections suggest at least some phones may be delayed.

Joining Apple, Amazon also bowed to Chinas tough new restrictions on online content.

Documents released in a lawsuit against Monsanto raised new questions about the companys efforts to influence the news media and scientific research.

The eurozone economy outperformed Britain again in the second quarter.

Heres a snapshot of global markets.

Masked agents of the Venezuelan government barged into the homes of two prominent former mayors overnight, hauling them off to jail in the dark. [The New York Times]

In Turkey, nearly 500 suspects in last years failed coup attempt went on trial. [Reuters]

U.S. border agents are testing a system to scan the faces of people leaving the country in an effort to better identify travelers who overstay their visas. [The New York Times]

Travelers in Europe are facing long lines at airports because of stricter security checks on those entering and leaving the Schengen area. [BBC]

In Moscow, three gang members were killed at a courthouse while trying to escape. [The New York Times]

J. K. Rowling apologized to the family of a boy with spina bifida after accusing President Trump of ignoring him. The boys mother said Ms. Rowling misinterpreted the situation. [The New York Times]

The interim prime minister of Pakistan, picked to temporarily replace his corruption-scarred predecessor, said he was no bench warmer. [The New York Times]

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At the Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Koskys savvy new staging of Wagners Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg stepped gracefully around the works potential land mines, our critic writes.

In London, our visiting critic considers three plays that look to the past to consider the uneasy state of the present.

The British brand behind Wonder Womans leather armor is having a major fashion moment.

The German soccer star Bastian Schweinsteiger has immersed himself in his new city, Chicago.

Our departing book critic, Michiko Kakutani, above, has been hailed as the most powerful critic in the English-speaking world.

Her output during 38 years at The Times attracted plenty of response, and on the day she announced her plans to step down, a colleague revealed a letter that Ms. Kakutani received early in her career.

Ms. Kakutani had written a profile of Pat Carroll, an actress who was then portraying the writer Gertrude Stein on stage. She described her home as filled with books by Stein and about Stein, as well as xeroxed Ph.D. theses and obscure literary journals.

The next day, Aug. 2, 1979, a letter addressed to Mr. Michiko Kakutani arrived, sent by an employee of Xerox, a company famous for protecting its brand name.

There is no adjective xerox, the letter explained. If in the future you wish to use the name Xerox, it should be used with a capital X and no ed.

Indeed, The Times style arbiters agree.

Richard Samson, who is on The Timess legal team, said a multitude of companies had objected to their trademarks being used as generic substitutes. Over the years, he said, we have received concerned letters from owners of the trademarks Spinning, Hula-Hoop, Sheetrock, Jeep and many others.

Andrea Kannapell contributed reporting.

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Ad Age "Media Guy" columnist Simon Dumenco's media roundup for the morning of Wednesday, August 2:

Today's accidental theme, dear reader, is spin -- as in deft spin (No. 6), inept spin (Nos. 3 and 4), spin about "transformation" (No. 1) and counterspin (No. 7). Feeling dizzy and nauseous? That's normal. (Take two aspirin and read me in the morning.) Anyway, let's get started ...

1. "Time Inc. is about to name a new C-suite executive -- a chief transformation officer," Keith Kelly reports in his "Media Ink" column in this morning's New York Post. "The move is expected to be made by next week's earnings report, according to well-placed sources. ... The CTO will be charged with implementing many of the recommendations made by consulting giant McKinsey & Co., sources said, including shaving $300 million in costs."

2. Speaking of Time Inc., a story in the Aug. 7 issue of its Sports Illustrated (and hosted on the website of SI's Time Inc. sibling Golf magazine) is making noise thanks to one particular detail (bolded below) that comes in the 24th paragraph. In his piece politely headlined "First Golfer: Donald Trump's relationship with golf has never been more complicated," Alan Shipnuck writes of Trump's golf club in Bedminster, N.J.:

During election season, Bedminster morphed into a kind of permanent campaign rally site. Trump posters and bumper stickers were plastered across the property, and an anti-Hillary shrine was built in a bar in the men's locker room. ... As President, Trump has already made four visits to the club. He has his own cottage adjacent to the pool; it was recently given a secure perimeter by the Secret Service, leading to the inevitable joke that it's the only wall Trump has successfully built. Chatting with some members before a recent round of golf, he explained his frequent appearances: "That White House is a real dump." (A White House spokesperson denies this occurred.)

3. In a column published this morning at TheWeek.com titled "Trump has lost his gift for propaganda," Paul Waldman writes that "you can't deny that when he ran for president, Trump displayed a kind of mad genius for propaganda," citing the way he branded opponents with belittling nicknames ("childish and stupid, but they worked") and his "extraordinarily powerful" campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again." But that was then, this is now. Waldman continues,

Yet in office, Trump has turned out to be an absolutely terrible propagandist. He can't convince the public to get behind his policy agenda -- his party's health-care bill scored as low as 12 percent approval in polls -- while his personal popularity languishes in the 30s. Every time he's interviewed he blurts out something damaging, like the time he admitted on national television that he fired FBI Director James Comey because he wanted the Russia investigation to disappear. These days it seems that half the speeches he gives are followed by public apologies from the people who invited him, whether it's the Boy Scouts or the police.

Waldman also cites the president's "ham-handed attempt at deception" in dictating the spin on Trump Jr.'s notorious Russia meeting (see The Washington Post item in yesterday's media roundup). Speaking of which ...

4. "Ex-Watergate prosecutor: Trump Jr. statement like a fake sick note," via The Hill.

5. In media-about-media-about Trump news, "Politico embarrasses WSJ by publishing Trump transcript," per the Columbia Jounalism Review. Pete Vernon writes that The Wall Street Journal's July 25 interview with the president ...

... was a golden opportunity to reestablish the Journal's political reporting bonafides and catch up on a story where it has fallen behind its competitors, and indeed the Journal broke standalone stories on several newsy details from the interview. But the Journal published only excerpts of the interview, deciding not [to] follow the precedent set by other news outlets in releasing a full or lightly edited transcript of its own Oval Office interview. It took the work of reporters from a different outlet -- Politico's Hadas Gold and Josh Dawsey, who on Tuesday published a full transcript of the Journal's interview with Trump -- for the public to find out everything that was said. There was still meat on the proverbial carcass of the interview, including banter that provides new fodder to the newspaper's critics. In fact, the very leak of the transcript suggests internal turmoil over the coverage.

6. Well done, Mr. Cook! "Tim Cook offered a master class in avoiding a Trump-related question," per Quartz.

7. And finally ... "I am now going to go dark. Then I will reemerge. As me." --shortlived White House comms director Anthony Scaramucci in an interview with HuffPost's Vicky Ward.

+ this 2012 Scaramucci tweet, which has been rediscovered by the Twitterati and has been a getting a fresh surge of retweets and hearts:

Thanks to Ann-Christine Diaz, Laurel Wentz, Jessica Wohl and Chen Wu for their roundup suggestions.

Simon Dumenco, aka Media Guy, is an Ad Age editor-at-large. You can follow him on Twitter @simondumenco.

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