Anthony Scaramucci said the former president hated preparing for campaign debates.
Donald Trump “hates” preparing for debates, his former White House communications director has said.
Speaking on the podcast The Rest Is Politics U.S., Anthony Scaramucci, now a vocal Trump critic, said the former president used to remove debate preparation time from his schedule.
On June 27, Trump is scheduled to debate President Joe Biden, their first such meeting this election cycle, at CNN’s studio in Georgia, a critical battleground state.
Scaramucci, who served under the Trump administration for 11 days in July 2017 before being fired, said Trump “hates debate prep.”
“Now, he hates debate prep”, he said on the podcast. “You know, Kellyanne Conway [another former Trump aide] scheduled debate prep in 2016. He used to take it out of the schedule.”
He continued: “She finally said, ‘OK, you know what? I’m going to have a lunch with Donald Trump.’ And she would sit down in his office and have lunch with him. And she’d have the debate prep in, like, these little index cards.
