Of all the theories for the short tenure of Anthony Scaramucci, the most intriguing — in every sense — crops up in a short Axios post.
The website reports it hears that Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter, and her husband Jared Kushner “brought in Scaramucci as an instrument of destruction against Reince Priebus [former chief of staff] . . . [From] their perspective he served his primary purpose: destroying Reince”.
It sounds like the opposite of the interpretation favoured by the Financial Times and many others, that the demise of Mr Scaramucci as the US president’s communications director owed more to the arrival of Mr Priebus’s successor, John Kelly. The former marine general is said to want to stamp some military discipline on the disorderly White House, insisting that in future all administration officials go through him to get to the president — including Mr Trump’s daughter and son-in-law.