WASHI DC: US President Donald Trump's former communications director Anthony Scaramucci has said there are people in Washington trying to have Trump removed as the president.Scaramucci, who was removed as communications director last month after just 10 days on the job, said there were are "elements" within the White House trying to "eject" T rump, media reports said. "What happens in Washington... is the president is not a representative of the political establishment class, so for whatever reason the people have made a decision that they want to eject him," Scaramucci said. "I think there are elements inside of Washington, also inclusive in the White House, that are not necessarily abetting the president's interests or his agenda. "When asked to identify the individuals, he said he had already "named some names" and strategic changes were in place, media reports said.He added that Trump needed to bring in "more loyalists" to carry out his agenda.Scaramucci's hiring led to the departures of Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus, Trump's former press secretary and chief of staff, respectively.Scaramucci told a New Yorker reporter that Reince Priebus was a "paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac" and accused him of leaking information to journalists. The following day, Trump announced on Twitter that he was replacing Priebus with John Kelly, the secretary of homeland security.

Source: Times of India August 13, 2017 22:57 UTC