White House chief of staff Reince Priebus expressed his support
Friday for President Trump’s pick of Wall Street financier Anthony
Scaramucci as the White House’s new communications director.In an interview with the Associated Press, Priebus said he and Scaramucci are “very good friends” and he stood by the president’s decision “100 percent.”
He also dismissed talk of turmoil at the White House, telling the AP it’s “all good here.”
Priebus’s comments come on the heels of Sean Spicer’s abrupt resignation as White House press secretary Friday morning.
According to The New York Times, Spicer told Trump he believed offering Scaramucci the communications director position was “a major mistake.”

