Anthony Scaramucci’s about-face on Donald Trump came a little late, but the former White House communications director seems to be attempting to make up for lost time. Not only did he sound the alarm to my colleague William D. Cohan about the president’s mental status, but he now claims to be organizing a group of former Trump advisers who can attest to the president’s instability. “I’m in the process of putting together a team of people that feel the exact same way that I do,” the Mooch said in a CNN interview Monday. “This is not a ‘Never Trump’ situation. This is not just screeching rhetoric. This is, ‘Okay, the guy’s unstable, everyone inside knows it, everyone outside knows it—let’s see if we can find a viable alternative.”

Scaramucci, who worked for Trump for a wild 11 days in 2017, was once a regular defender of the president. But he’s grown increasingly critical of his former boss as Trump mounted racist attacks on progressive lawmakers and bragged about his crowd sizes during trips to mourning communities in Texas and Ohio. Earlier this month, Trump hit back on Twitter, writing that, “Like many other so-called television experts, [Scaramucci] knows very little about me other than the fact that this Administration has probably done more than any other Administration in its first 2 ½ years of existence.”

“Eventually he turns on everyone and soon it will be you and then the entire country,” the Mooch shot back.

In the days since, Scaramucci has repeatedly suggested that Republicans may need to “replace the top of the ticket in 2020”—an unlikely scenario given Trump’s stranglehold on the party, but something the former White House communications director is pushing for nevertheless by attempting to recruit former staffers, including Cabinet members, to speak out about Trump’s instability. “They know it’s a crisis,” he said on CNN’s New Day, predicting that his “trove” of concerned ex-Trump staffers will be ready to warn the American public about their former boss by mid to late fall.

Of course, his efforts are likely futile. Trump’s obvious racism and instability didn’t prevent him from ascending to the highest office in the land, nor have they appeared to dim his appeal among supporters. And despite frequent suggestions that Republicans privately wince at Trump’s outrageous conduct, the overwhelming majority of the GOP has either looked the other way or actively enabled him. The Mooch and other former staffers like Michael Cohen and Omarosa Manigault Newman, who have criticized Trump after leaving his employ, are right that he is unfit for office, but wrong in assuming that this truth makes any real difference. Perhaps the only Republican who truly cares about the ex-staffers’ unflattering accounts is the president himself, who responded on Monday morning with predictable outrage. “Anthony Scaramucci is a highly unstable ‘nut job’ who was with other candidates in the primary who got shellacked, & then unfortunately wheedled his way into my campaign,” he tweeted. “Said his wife was driving him crazy, ‘something big’ was happening with her. Getting divorced. He was a mental wreck. We didn’t want him around. Now Fake News puts him on like he was my buddy!”

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