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mentioning Priebus’ Twitter handle. Scaramucci later deleted that tweet and said he had only mentioned Priebus to show that all senior leaders are taking leaks seriously.
“In light of the leak of my nancial disclosure info which is a felony, I will be contacting @FBI and the @JusticeDept #swamp @Reince45,” his since-deleted tweet read.
Scaramucci’s nancial disclosure form wasn’t leaked at all. It was released after a public records request by a Politico reporter.
In the CNN interview, Scaramucci said he’d be reaching out to his “buddies” in the FBI about the matter.
If Scaramucci tries to direct the FBI to conduct a leak investigation, that could brush up against the Jus- tice Department’s obligation to function independently from the White House, said Mark Zaid, a national security lawyer in Washington.
“It starts to potentially smell and approach an inappropriate line,” Zaid said.
Brad Gerstman, a New York lobbyist and public relations executive, said it probably doesn’t matter to Trump that Scaramucci and Priebus don’t get along. Gerstman has done projects for the Trump Organiza- tion and is a neighbor and longtime friend of Scaramucci’s.
“In my experience, he’s of the belief that sometimes a little friction in the ranks is how you surface the best ideas,” Gerstman said of Trump.
But another rule of thumb in Trump’s inner circle is that it’s never wise to outshine the president.
Trump has reacted angrily when certain aides — including Bannon and, brie y, son-in-law Jared Kushner — received outsized media attention.
Ari Fleischer, who served as press secretary under George W. Bush, said, “Ask Steve Bannon what hap- pens if you get too much publicity and go too far.”
“It reminds me of Icarus ying too close to the sun.”
___ Lemire reported from New York. Associated Press writers Vivian Salama, Eric Tucker and Jill Colvin contributed to this report.
Sri Lanka, China sign long-delayed $1.5 billion port deal By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI, Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lan- ka’s government on Saturday signed a long-delayed agreement to sell a 70 percent stake in a $1.5 billion port to China in a bid to recover from the heavy burden of repaying a Chinese loan obtained to build the facility.
The agreement comes after a nearly six-month delay since the signing of the framework deal, which immediate- ly drew public criticism and protests.
The document was signed between the government-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority and the state-run China Merchants Port Holding Co. in the capital, Colombo, in the presence of
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