Back in October, ex-White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci decided that the best use of his eponymous news organization was to run a Twitter poll asking “How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust,” claiming, after the ensuing backlash, that the Scaramucci Post was simply attempting to educate its followers about the murder of 6 million Jews, not act as a dog-whistle for Holocaust deniers. Shortly thereafter the Mooch himself took a trip to Israel, proudly displaying a photo of himself at the Wailing Wall as the banner on his Twitter profile before swapping it out for a still from his Late Show appearance.

It was apparently with this excursion in mind that Rabbi Shmuley Boteach invited the Mooch to speak at his Hanukkah party Sunday night. But given a mic and an audience, Scaramucci was reportedly unable to resist the opportunity to lay waste to his Trumpworld rivals and inform the crowd that his firing was a sham. Of his old buddy Steve Bannon, whom Scaramucci once described as “great man” and “the most misunderstood person in America,” he told the group: “He’s a loser. He’ll be a stalwart defender of Israel until he’s not. That’s how this guy operates . . . the problem with Bannon is he’s a messianic figure. It’s his way or the highway. He was dramatically and incredibly divisive in the White House . . . He was leaking on everybody . . . You don’t leak on the president if you’re the president’s senior adviser. So the guy’s a loser.”

Of the general vibe in the West Wing, he said, “The first pill you take is the ‘anti-friendship’ pill. You can be my friend for 30 years, but I’m gonna stab your eyeball out with an ice pick if it gets me more power. The second pill you take is the ‘power is aphrodisiac’ pill. Students of history know that power corrupts and it corrupts absolutely.” And, naturally, he claimed that his firing following his on-the-record rant to the New Yorker was a huge mistake. Chief of Staff John Kelly should have “given me a bar of soap, told me to wash my mouth out and ‘let’s get back to work’,” the Mooch, who is already thinking about Trump’s reelection campaign, opined. “What I said about those people . . . was basically true and everybody knew that.”

Of the speech’s publication, Scaramucci said only this: