How The Mooch Got His MoJo Back (HBO)

This week, the Sin City calendar included the 10th Annual Skybridge Alternatives Conference, known as SALT.

It's your standard rich-meet-powerful confab, the kind of thing you'd find in Davos or Aspen. With one notable exception: this one is run by Anthony Scaramucci.

Skybridge is The Mooch's investment company. At its height, say in 2017, SALT was pretty mega: former heads of state and a-list entertainers appeared on stage. But then Scaramucci's fortunes changed in July 2017 when he took a job as President Trump's White House Communications Director. That resulted in one of the all-time great Washington faceplants. Eleven days into the job, Scaramucci was fired, and his brand was beclowned.

The Mooch was alone. There was no SALT conference in 2018.

But a year is a long time, and the finance world has once again opened its arms to Scaramucci. SALT 2019 lacked some of the star power of previous years, but the Mooch did get some heavy-hitters: former White House chief of staff John Kelly was the keynote guest. Other panels included Chris Christie and Jeff Sessions.

Some Democrats showed up, too — former Obama advisers Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice were here. Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard stopped by, too.

At the center of it all was a man who many people in politics left for dead. But at SALT at least, The Mooch is very much alive.

"My issues with the president are not what he's doing. He's got some very very good policies actually working for average people," Scaramucci told VICE News. "My issue with the president is how he's doing it. It's not what he's doing."​​

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[rickalarcon]

A place where politicians and financiers can get together and agree on their bribes.

[jackwagner]

People need to stop hating on the mooch for his association with trump and realize the reality of the success he’s built in his life. The dudes an absolute tank at the end of the day and I respect the shit out of that

[hunkyleepickle]

"he's got great policies for regular people". Says the guy running a conference for the richest most powerful people in the world....

[stayfrosty]

Return? He was never (politically) credible to begin with.

[nickgehr]

*_Scaramucci, Scaramucci, will you do the fandango?_*

[tedlemoine]

He a complete joker. People in this administration have reached the point of no return

[Sarah-recg]

Also, there’s this town hall meeting where Anthony actually asked Obama a question (he was someone in the crowd, I don’t remember the network that had this on) but he asked Obama what he was going to do to start going easier on Wall Street because he works on Wall Street and he felt as if he was a punching bag. Mind you, this is not long after 2008 he is asking this question and I really just wanted to scream at this guy like what a joke. He’s a Wall Street absolute blow hard with a trash attitude and mouth.

[AsphaltAntelope]

2:17 - her face!! She's having NONE of that shit.

[coryddp]

It's amazing the media continues to shine spotlights so these guys can promote their rhetoric which is sort of how we got Donald Trump in the first place.

[MrDavidBFoster]

So, in other words, _"it's all just a game"._ .. Who here honestly appreciates knowing that?

[maxcovfefe]

Some days I simply don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[EnricoFantini]

04:12 Scaramucci's analogy is basically that Trump fired him by mistake

[blasalvice]

Jesus all those people really live in a fantasy..

[curiosity]

Thumbs up, you were able to find Bullshit on a stick. We live in a world of Con People.. Planet Earth needs to get past that somehow.

[MadMrMatter]

just a bunch of out of touch, old people trying to figure out how to amass more wealth, no matter the cost.

[martinobrien]

NEARLY SIX MINUTES OF PURE COMEDY GOLD .

[cassiestephenson]

Vice really went down hill in the Trump erra.

[justincastillogayray]

Neil Armstrong? Don't get me started. Then again, Anthony is lucky that anyone wants to interview him. Love to see him defend Donald's billion dollar debt.

[TheHandOfGovernment]

Wow, nobody in the private sector has lost their job quickly before... nobody!

[Smurillo]

Vice has made some really great documentaries in the past, however, Vice has lost that independence that really hooked me at first. Seeing this puff piece on a Trumpite just makes me sick. It used to be that Vice would focus on the small scale and fringe, but now it’s just hobnobbing with the corporate elites. Vice has lost its identity.