Anthony Scaramucci is part of a long conga line of people who worked in Donald Trump's White House and then turned on their former boss.
Scaramucci had a very brief tenure as White House communications director in 2017, and after what he saw from inside and outside Trump-world, he doesn't mince words.
Trump was a "disaster", someone who "didn't do the homework", an "impetuous" leader "reeling from one potential crisis to the next", he tells ABC RN's Global Roaming.
Perhaps his biggest zinger: The 45th president was "an orange wrecking ball".
And although some recent polls show a neck-and-neck race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in November's US election, Scaramucci believes Trump will lose — and lose soundly.
But should Trump prevail, "The Mooch" has a warning for America and the world.
"[Trump is] an incredibly dangerous guy. I'm a lifelong Republican [but] I'll be working very hard against him over the next seven months," he says.
The campaign ahead
Scaramucci, who has a background on Wall Street, was tapped for the White House communications director role in July 2017.
The high-energy Italian-American was famously fired after 11 days.
Scaramucci soured on Trump, voiced support for Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election and is doing so once again ahead of the 2024 election.
He says Biden has two key issues that will help him keep the White House: Reproductive rights and the spectre of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
It was Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v Wade in 2022, ending Americans' constitutional right to abortion. Since then, the issue has been left to individual US states, meaning it's legal in some and banned or restricted in others.
This may also have repercussions in the IVF sector, after an Alabama court ruled in February that frozen embryos are children, and people could be held legally responsible if they are destroyed. In the fallout, Trump voiced his support for IVF.
Scaramucci says this will be a major campaign theme for Biden and the Democrats.
"The largest voting bloc now [is] independents [those voters not registered as either Democrat or Republican] … [Trump's] got to win independents to get to the presidency. And most of those independents are pro-choice," he says.
Scaramucci adds it's worth remembering that in the 2022 midterm elections: "Biden did better than almost every one of his predecessors ... primarily because Republicans are trying to repeal abortion rights."
He also points to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
"People are going to be reminded that [Trump] is the sore loser, that he wanted to rip up the Constitution of the United States," Scaramucci says.
"The election lie that [Trump] fomented, which led to the violence, is a sign of who he really is and I think [Democrats] are going to spend countless dollars on that."
Scaramucci doesn't have the strongest record at calling elections. After being fired, but before turning on his ex-boss, he predicted a Trump landslide in the 2020 election, before backflipping and later predicting a Biden landslide.
But as the 2024 campaign ramps up, Scaramucci thinks Biden will pull ahead and Trump will "be very soundly defeated at the ballot box come November".
Money, money, money
Winning the US presidency is a costly task and this time around, Biden has been continually out-fundraising Trump. This is one barometer of support in the US electorate.
Trump is $75 million behind Biden and has 270,000 fewer unique donors compared to this point at the 2020 election, according to an analysis by the Financial Times.
Trump's four criminal indictments have also affected his haul, as the former president has been spending millions of dollars of donor money on legal bills.
"[Trump] has money worries," Scaramucci says.
However, more money, and the greater resources that come with it, do not always mean electoral success.
In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton significantly out-raised Trump, both through her campaign and other avenues.
And Trump would be the first person to point out who won that election.
The Biden presidency
Aside from eviscerating his former boss, Scaramucci has some thoughts on his Democratic successor.
"Joe Biden looks like he's got one foot on a banana peel and the other foot in a casket," he says.
"But I think that appearance allows people to underestimate how legislatively successful Mr Biden has been."
Scaramucci thinks that over the campaign, Biden and the Democrats will become better at "explaining to people the legislative accomplishments" of the current administration.
For example, "the re-shoring of manufacturing, the building of [computer] chips facilities here in the US, and other things that he's done to raise living standards", Scaramucci says.
And he says that Biden will have "a tremendous amount of money to explain that narrative, come November".
"[The campaign should] also point out that inflation was primarily driven by monetary and fiscal policy that took place during COVID. And we're now starting to see the inflation trend lines go down."
Trump: The sequel
Scaramucci was only in the White House for less than a fortnight, but he claims that he saw levels of chaos and dysfunction that left him reeling.
After his departure, Trump and Scaramucci — both gifted in the art of insults — had a number of public sparring matches, with Trump calling Scaramucci a "nut job" who "unfortunately wheedled his way into my campaign".
The Mooch was just "another disgruntled former employee who got fired for gross incompetence!", according to one Trump tweet.
From within Trump-world, Scaramucci faced accusations of attention-seeking and opportunism, with Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel saying he was only attacking Trump "for his own personal gain".
But should Trump end up winning the 2024 election, Scaramucci thinks the sequel will be worse than Trump's first presidency.
"Those people that stopped Trump's anarchy and destruction [during his first term] are not going to be with him in the second term," he says.
"[Trump will be] way more organised this time, and way more prepared … He'll want to expand executive power … I do see democracy at risk."
So which policies in particular worry Scaramucci?
He slams Trump's isolationist trade policies, which he claims hark back to a bygone time in America "with very little imports coming into the country, very little exports".
"[This] will weaken the global trading system. While the United States, which is abundant with natural resources, could potentially survive, it would cripple the global economy."
Scaramucci also warns that Trump's "love affair" with Russian President Vladimir Putin will mean "he'll pull us out of NATO, he'll revoke aid to Ukraine".
"[And] he'll be a massive deficit spender … He wants to cut more taxes, which further destabilises the US balance sheet and the US budget."
By Scaramucci's estimates, there are around 40 fellow Trump White House alumni "that are denouncing him and begging the American public not to allow him to return to the presidency".
"It's my job, alongside my friends who love the country, to put patriotism first and partisanship last, and work hard to make sure that he doesn't win," he says.
"[So] I'm going with the older, slightly forgetful guy as opposed to the lunatic."
