CNBC’s Joe Kernen torched former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci this week for some of his anti-Trump takes prior to this week’s election.
The intense exchange on MSNBC’s “Squawk Box” came after Kernen said that Scaramucci had gotten “pretty heated” in his rhetoric against President-elect Donald Trump, who Scaramucci briefly worked for during Trump’s first term in office.
“You have had an utter disdain for Trump,” Kernen said. “You’ll always be welcome at the table of legacy media and have people nodding as you trash Trump. That’s always going to happen. But aren’t you the slightest bit embarrassed or at least humbled about how wrong you were about the feeling of most Americans?”
As Scaramucci tried to cut him off, Kernen fired back: “Let me finish!”
“And for enthusiastically supporting a candidate who a majority of people…