"The clash between Mr. Scaramucci and Mr. Priebus offers a case study in how the Trump White House operates, a conflict divorced from facts, untethered from the basics of how government works, enabled by the lack of any organizational structure and driven by ambition, fear, animosity and envy.
The genesis was a dinner hosted Wednesday night by Mr. Trump at the White House that included Mr. Scaramucci; Sean Hannity and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Fox News hosts; and Bill Shine, a former Fox executive.
Ms. Guilfoyle told the president that Mr. Priebus was a problem and a leaker, someone who was not serving his agenda, according to a person briefed on the conversation. (A Fox spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.)
Mr. Scaramucci grew angry afterward that Mr. Lizza had learned that the dinner was taking place and that Politico had obtained his government financial disclosure form. At that point, he called Mr. Lizza, demanding to know his source, whom the reporter refused to divulge.
“O.K., I’m going to fire every one of them, and then you haven’t protected anybody, so the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks,” Mr. Scaramucci replied.
After hanging up, Mr. Scaramucci posted a message on Twitter asserting that the “leak” of his disclosure form was a “felony” and that he would seek an F.B.I. investigation. He included Mr. Priebus’s Twitter handle, a move that was interpreted as blaming the chief of staff.
But it was no leak. The disclosure form is supposed to be made public under federal law and all Politico did was ask for it under normal procedures. Mr. Scaramucci deleted the tweet. But on Thursday morning, he called into CNN with Mr. Trump’s encouragement, and threw down the gauntlet with Mr. Priebus on live television.
“We have had odds. We have had differences,” Mr. Scaramucci said on CNN. “When I said we were brothers from the podium, that’s because we’re rough on each other. Some brothers are like Cain and Abel. Other brothers can fight with each other and get along. I don’t know if this is reparable or not. That will be up to the president.”
Some of Mr. Trump’s supporters said Mr. Scaramucci was causing more harm than good.
“I would say right now that he’s being more pugnacious than effective,” Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, told the radio host Laura Ingraham. “I think he ought to slow down a little bit and learn what he’s doing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/us/politics/scaramucci-priebus-leaks.html