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Scaramucci Tells Trump To Tone Down Russia Rhetoric: ‘Knock It Off’

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Former White House communication director Anthony Scaramucci advised President Donald Trump to change his strategy on Russia and Vladimir Putin or risk losing voters.

“If he doesn’t reverse course he’s creating unnatural alliances against himself,” Scaramucci said on CNN’s “New Day” Tuesday. “He’s got Republican Party members that want to support him that are going to switch on him now and they’re going to conjoin themselves to the Democrats. And he doesn’t want that right now.” (RELATED: Scaramucci Faces Off With CNN’s Chris Cuomo Over White House Staff)

“He has so many things going on so well in the economy, so many things going on so well in terms of what he’s doing right, this is a glaring optical mistake,” he added. “This is a glaring strategic mistake. This is very bad execution.”

“New Day” co-host Alisyn Camerota played a clip of Trump saying both Russia and the United States have made mistakes and asked if that could be likened to former President Barack Obama’s international apology tour.

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“I remember when President Obama said anything mildly critical of the United States I remember the hue and cry among Fox News and Republicans who said he was part of the blame America first crowd,” Camerota said.

“I’ll explain it if you want to hear it,” Scaramucci replied. “What he’s basically trying to say is there is that the tension between us and the Russians, in his mind, is unnecessary at the threshold level that it’s at now. And that there’s blame on both sides to try to bring the tension down.”

Scaramucci thinks Trump should walk back his comments, and said the president is conflating the issue of collusion with the Russian hack against America’s election system.

“What I think he’s doing right now is he’s conflating the two issues of collusion and the Russians actually meddling in the election and he’s saying ‘wait a minute, people are going to say that my electoral success is de-legitimatized by all this,'” Scaramucci concluded. “That’s the expression of the frustration. That’s where he’s coming from. He’s got to knock it off.”

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