Anthony Scaramucci (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
He was willing to puncture the pretensions of this very serious set of students and professors. He certainly didn’t take himself too seriously.
— Richard Kahlenberg, a classmate of Anthony Scaramucci’s at Harvard Law School, commenting on how The Mooch regularly cracked jokes during class at the T14 law school. Scaramucci went on to fail the bar exam twice after law school before passing, and then entered the finance world. Scaramucci later served as the White House communications director under President Donald Trump for 11 days in July 2017.
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