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Scaramucci memoir details 11-day White House stint under Trump

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  • Anthony Scaramucci's memoir "All the Wrong Moves," published September 17 by Bodley Head, recounts his 11 days as President Donald Trump's communications director in summer 2017.
  • According to the book, Scaramucci was hired after a July 19, 2017, phone call from Trump and fired on August 1, 2017, by incoming Chief of Staff John F. Kelly.
  • The book quotes Kelly telling Scaramucci the president no longer wanted him in the White House and that two direct reports to the president were not workable.
  • Scaramucci describes a break with Trump following his August 2019 criticism of Trump's remarks telling four Democratic congresswomen to "go back" to their countries.
 2026-09-12 · 5 MIN READ

Matthew Klimow publishes 9/11 Pentagon account on 25th anniversary

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  • Matthew Klimow, the retired Army colonel who served as executive assistant to the top US military officer on September 11, 2001, has published a first-person account of the Pentagon attack.
  • Klimow's book "As the Pentagon Burned" details how he relayed warnings between senior leaders on the morning the Pentagon was struck, including a 30-minute period when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was unreachable.
  • The book recounts friction between Norad and the air national guard over rules of engagement, and communication gaps that delayed the fighter response to Washington.
  • Captain Chris Donahue, the aide Klimow ordered to retrieve General Myers on 9/11, later became the last US soldier to leave Afghanistan in August 2021.
 2026-09-11 · 4 MIN READ
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