Anthony Scaramucci deleted a tweet in which he appeared to make the accusation late on Wednesday night

It referred to the leak of his financial disclosure form and read: 'I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45'

Many interpreted it as a threat directed towards Chief of Staff Reince Priebus

Scaramucci denied their suspicions two hours later, saying he only tagged Priebus to prove their united front on tackling leakers

The financial disclosure form revealed that Scaramucci earned $10million between January and June from his private investment firm

It has not been published online yet by the US Office of Government Ethics but was leaked to Politico

Scaramucci was named as the new White House Communications Director last week, replacing Sean Spicer

Trump's new Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci denied accusing White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus of leaking his financial details on Wednesday night - and deleted a cryptic tweet that was widely interpreted as such.

Scaramucci deleted the tweet which read: 'In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45,' tagging Priebus's account,' two hours after posting it at 10.30pm.

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Before it was removed, the message had been interpreted by White House observers as a threat to Priebus.

It was in reference to a report published earlier in the evening which revealed details of Scaramucci's financial disclosure form.

The form, that was filed with the Office of Government Ethics revealed that the 53-year-old earned $10million between January and June from his private investment firm SkyBridge capital. It showed his total assets to be worth $85million.

The financial disclosures of White House officials including the president are listed on the office's website and any member of the public can request to view a copy of Scaramucci's form once it becomes available.

Despite this, he considered the sharing of his information a crime and believed it was proof of the gushing leaks coming from the administration - something he had spent the day vowing to put an end to in television interviews.

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Scaramucci tweeted 'In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45.

White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus

The confusion began with this tweet, posted by Scaramucci at around 11pm in which he appeared to accuse Priebus of leaking his financial disclosure to the media. He has since deleted the post

Two hours after the end of their phone call, Scaramucci deleted the incriminating tweet and denied accusing Priebus of the leak. It undermined Lizza's confirmation of suspicions that he blamed the White House Chief of Staff for sharing details of his financial disclosure form

Just before 1am, he attempted to issue a correction and claimed that he'd only included Priebus in the tweet to show that they were united in their clampdown on leakers.

'Wrong! Tweet was public notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks. @Reince45'.

No other senior members of the administration were tagged.

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The severe lapse in communication comes in the middle of his first week as the new White House communications director and on the back of a dinner with President Trump, First Lady Melania, Fox News host Sean Hannity and former Fox exec Bill Shine.

It was prompted by a report in Politico which detailed how Scaramucci earned $10million between January and June this year from his private investment firm, SkyBridge Capital.

The financial disclosure was filed with the US Office of Government Ethics which publishes the financial disclosures of the president and the vice president and lists those of Priebus and former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on its website.

In his tweet, Scaramucci appeared to be under the impression that it was a crime for the information to have been put in the public domain.

After his first post, Twitter users went into overdrive speculating over what Scaramucci meant by tagging Priebus' handle

New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza said Scaramucci wanted the FBI to investigate Priebus for the leak, though later Scaramucci suggested he had been joking on the phone to Lizza when he told the journalist that

Lizza reported earlier that Scaramucci had spent the evening dining with the president, the first lady, Sean Hannity and Bill Shine

After he posted it,The New York Times asked Scaramucci why he believed it was a crime for his to have been shared, pointing out that in theory, because he submitted it on June 23, it is available for request from July 23.

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He replied: 'They aren’t in process yet,' meaning someone had leaked them to Politico before they were supposed to go into the public domain.

The head of the ethics office, Walter M. Shaub Jr, stepped down last Thursday after failing to see eye-to-eye with the Trump administration for months.

Scaramucci's was not listed on the office's website on Wednesday night.

Scaramucci was mocked for believing it was a crime for the information to have been leaked

Politico's report indicates that he holds an ownership stake in SkyBridge Capital, a private investment firm which he founded in 2005.

His ownership stake paid him $4.9million between January and June and he collected another $5million in salary payments during the same period, according to Politico's report.

SkyBridge announced in January that it was being sold to the Chinese conglomerate HNA.

In an announcement of that sale, the company said Scaramucci would be stepping down as one of its managing directors but he is still listed as such on its website.

The deal has still not been finalized and is being looked-over by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

With his sights set on a role in Washington, Scaramucci moved to DC in June as an employee of Export-Import bank. He immediately took an unpaid leave of absence and has not collected any of his $172,000 salary.

Scaramucci made $10million between January and June this year from his ownership stake in and salary from SkyBridge Capital, the private investment fund he founded in 2005

Before Politico published its report on Wednesday evening, Scaramucci appeared to be on a high from a busy day on the Hill in his new role.

He participated in several television interviews for both British and American networks. They included an appearance on Hannity where he said he had evidence the leaks - of which there have been 125 since the start of Trump's presidency - appeared to be coming from the top down.

'One of the big problems that I’m discovering is that senior people are really the guys doing the leaking and they ask junior people to leak for them.

'I'm very proud to be reporting directly to the president so I can hermetically seal off the [communications] team from this sort of nonsense,' Scaramucci said.

'Some people think we're naive. I know I'm in a cesspool called Washington or a swamp called Washington so it'll be virtually impossible to get rid of every leak but we're taking dramatic steps to get rid of the leaks.'

In an interview with the BBC, he told of how he worked for '30 years to join the global elite' in Washington.

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He also lamented the 'tough town' and how it appeared to foster backstabbing, telling more than one interviewer proudly: 'I'm a front stabber'.

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Scaramucci appeared on Hannity hours before the tweet to tell of his plan to crackdown on the leaks

Hannity, who spoke with Scaramucci on the subject hours earlier, welcomed his announcement

It had been a busy day for the new White House Communications Director. Earlier, gave a fiery interview with the BBC's Emily Maitlis, during which he said of his new job: 'I'm having a lot of fun'

Priebus was rumored to have been against Scaramucci's hiring from the beginning. A more conservative member of the GOP, he vouched for Spicer and was disheartened by his sudden resignation last week.

Scaramucci cryptically acknowledged the tensions between them in May, telling Business Insider: 'I have one or two people who obviously don't favor me, but that's okay, that's politics.

'I'm not the first person to get hit in politics, and I won't be the last.'

It was previously reported that the president was unimpressed with Priebus's performance as Chief of Staff.

In June, Politico reported that he'd given him until July 4 to clean up the administration and put an end to the gushing leaks and constant infighting.