“Full transparency: I'm deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & shouldn't be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda & that's all that matters,” Anthony Scaramucci wrote on Twitter. | Pablo Martinez Monsivais/ AP Photo Scaramucci says he's 'deleting old tweets' to avoid a 'distraction'

Incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci acknowledged on Saturday that he is deleting past Twitter messages that seemingly conflicted with President Donald Trump’s views and policy agenda.

“Full transparency: I'm deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & shouldn't be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda & that's all that matters,” Scaramucci wrote on Twitter Saturday afternoon.


He added later that the "politics of gotcha are over."

"I have a thick skin and we're moving on to @POTUS agenda serving the American people," Scaramucci wrote on Twitter.

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After he was announced as White House communications director Friday, journalists scoured through Scaramucci's old messages, unearthing instances of daylight between the communications director and his new boss.

According to The Daily Beast, Scarmucci had tweeted that he hoped Hillary Clinton, Trump's general presidential election foe and frequent target of his criticism, would run for president in 2016. He also appeared to back more stringent gun control laws, according to WIRED, a stance Trump has opposed.

Scaramucci also made since-deleted comments critical of Trump, calling him an "odd guy" and maligning his plans to build a wall along the southern U.S. border, writing, "Walls don't work. Never have never will."

A former Wall Street financier Scaramucci, like Trump, has financially supported Democratic candidates in the past. Scaramucci also failed to initially endorse Trump during the Republican primaries, backing the candidacies of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush over Trump.

Addressing some of the push back, Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday that Scaramucci “... wanted to endorse me 1st, before the Republican Primaries started, but didn't think I was running!”