Anthony Scaramucci's wife 'files for divorce because of her dislike of President Trump' - Telegraph

Anthony Scaramucci's wife 'files for divorce because of her dislike of President Trump'

Harriet Alexander, washington

28 JULY 2017 • 11:06PM

Anthony Scaramucci’s wife has reportedly filed for divorce a week after he was named White House communications director, with friends claiming that her dislike of President Donald Trump and her husband’s “naked political ambition” has forced them apart.

Deidre Ball, who worked as a vice president in investor relations for SkyBridge Capital, the firm he founded in 2005 and sold to ascend to the White House, has filed for divorce after three years of marriage, according to The New York Post.

White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci walks down the steps of Air Force One after arriving at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, N.Y.

White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci walks down the steps of Air Force One after arriving at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. CREDIT: AP

“She liked the nice Wall Street life and their home on Long Island, not the insane world of DC,” a source told the paper.

“She is tired of his naked ambition, which is so enormous that it left her at her wits’ end. She has left him even though they have two children together.”

Mr Scaramucci responded to the news by tweeting: “Leave civilians out of this. I can take the hits, but I would ask that you would put my family in your thoughts and prayers and nothing more.”

Anthony Scaramucci ✔ @Scaramucci

Leave civilians out of this. I can take the hits, but I would ask that you would put my family in your thoughts and prayers & nothing more.

Mr Scaramucci, 52, and Ball, 38, began dating in 2011 and are believed to have married in 2014.

Mr Scaramucci is yet to confirm the news, which comes at the end of a tumultuous first week in Washington, in which he attempted to schmooze the White House press corps and ended up in a wild expletive-laced rant about his colleagues, published in The New Yorker.

The source said that Mr Scaramucci had been “hell-bent” on claiming his position at the White House after he was originally positioned for a senior role, and sold SkyBridge Capital in preparation in January.

He was blocked by Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, who was fired on Friday.

Anthony Scaramucci, White House communications director

A second source told the Post: “Deidre is not a fan of Trump, and she hasn’t exactly been on board and supportive of Anthony and his push to get back into the White House.”

The friend added: “Anthony is focusing on his children, his work for the president and the American people. There is nothing more important to him.

“I don’t know who Deidre thought she was marrying but anyone who knows Anthony knows he’s an ambitious man.”

The divorce is the second “Trump divorce” in two days.

On Thursday a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader announced that she and her state attorney husband are to divorce, with the president to blame.

Lynn and David Aronberg married two years ago after Mr Aronberg, 46, proposed at the Eiffel Tower.

Now Mrs Aronberg's PR firm, TransMedia, has issued a remarkably personal press release announcing their separation, describing it as a “Trump divorce”.

Mr Aronberg is yet to comment.

Latest failure to repeal Obamacare in the Senate "the beginning of the unravelling" of Republican support for Donald Trump - Independent

US political analysts are calling the latest failure to repeal Obamacare in the Senate "the beginning of the unravelling" of Republican support for Donald Trump.

During a panel discussion on the President’s “skinny repeal bill”, which was voted down by a thin margin of 51-49 after three GOP rebellions led by Senator John McCain, CNN commentator Margaret Hoover warned that “Trump is clearly acting on his own; he’s not listening to anybody.”

Two other Republicans joined Senator McCain, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, on voting no on a bill that critics had warned would have led to the deaths of 20,000 additional people.

In a statement shortly after the results of the vote were announced, the senator for Arizona said: “From the beginning, I have believed that Obamacare should be repealed and replaced with a solution that increases competition, lowers costs, and improves care for the American people. The so-called ‘skinny repeal’ amendment the Senate voted on today would not accomplish those goals.

“While the amendment would have repealed some of Obamacare’s most burdensome regulations, it offered no replacement to actually reform our health care system and deliver affordable, quality health care to our citizens.”

Failure to pass the repeal act demonstrated a “haphazard policy-making process on behalf of the White House,” Ms Hoover added.

In response to the results, Democrat Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts on CNN encouraged the US president to put aside partisanship and work together with Democrats: “We do want to work with Republicans. The Affordable Care Act has to be improved…but we have to do it on a bipartisan basis and hopefully those millions of Americans can sleep easier tonight knowing their healthcare has not been ripped away from them can now look to democrats and republicans finally coming together to make this healthcare system work better.”

The US president’s approval rating has plummeted in the last week following the GOP’s disunited front on the topic of Obamacare, as well as the US president’s criticisms following Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to recuse himself.

A Reuters poll conducted on the 24 July, less than a week before the vote on Obamacare found that just 35.1 per cent of GOP party members polled approved of the US president’s work. Over half (58.1 per cent) disapproved, and 4.1 per cent had “mixed feelings.”

Political scientist Matt Glassman echoed these sentiments, telling The New York Times: “The current congressional GOP seems less supportive and more constraining of the Potus than basically any in history.”

The US president has previously expressed exasperation at his party's lack of support, stating on Twitter that: “It’s very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their President.”