Anthony Scaramucci is gone from his position as communications director because, the White House claimed in a Monday statement, Scaramucci “felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team.”

The truth is more likely found in something Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in her Monday afternoon press briefing. "General Kelly has the full authority to operate within the White House, and all staff will report to him,” she said. That cuts against both Scaramucci’s public pronouncement that he answered to the president and the impression he left that his relationship with the Donald Trump was more personal and closer than the average White House aide. But as the New York Times reported, Kelly requested Scaramucci be let go, and that was that.

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