Fired Donald Trump spin doctor Anthony Scaramucci just followed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Twitter – Mirror.co.uk

Donald Trump's former communications chief Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired after just 10 days in his job, just followed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Twitter.

The former White House communications director is known for following a lot of people on the social network - more than 168,000 at the time of writing.

But following the world's most notorious handler of stolen government information just days after being very publicly ousted from the White House is bound to raise a few eyebrows in Washington.

Last night it emerged Scaramucci had been duped by a British prankster into a seething argument with someone he appeared to believe was former White House Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus.

Apparently convinced he was corresponding with the real Priebus, Scaramucci said his former boss had been hurtful.

He wrote: You know what you did. We all do. Even today. But rest assured we are prepared. A Man would apologise.

The fake Priebus wrote back: I can't believe you are questioning my ethics! The so called 'Mooch', who can't even manage his first week in the White House without leaving upset in his wake. I have nothing to apologize for."

Trumps then-comms chief said Priebus should read more Shakespeare, particularly revenge play Othello.

Scaramucci has previously spoken positively about Assange's information clearing house.

In a Tweet last October, long before Trump made him Director of Communications, he said: "WikiLeaks became the fourth estate in 2016."

Ahead of November's US presidential election, WikiLeaks released a cache of email stolen from the Democratic National Committee, which US intelligence services believe had been given to Assange by Russian hackers.

The email dump was hugely damaging to Hillary Clinton 's campaign, and many credit it with securing Trump's victory.

The Mirror has contacted Mr Scaramucci for comment.

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