Just before 9:30 a.m. ET, cameras caught the still-employed Scaramucci standing outside the West Wing, using his characteristic hand gestures to punctuate a conversation with Kellyanne Conway, the presidential counselor.
Outwardly, Scaramucci appeared to be in the President’s good graces. Trump was thrilled with Scaramucci’s debut performance in the briefing room, officials said, during which the wealthy businessman described the President as a born winner with an innate sense of competition.
“I have seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire,” Scaramucci told reporters on July 21, the same day his appointment was announced. “I’ve seen him in Madison Square Garden with a topcoat, standing in the key, hitting shots.”
Scaramucci’s debut in the West Wing prompted its own seizures — the now-former press secretary Sean Spicer resigned his post in anticipation of Scaramucci’s arrival, determining he couldn’t work alongside the brash financier, and Scaramucci proudly declared that he would report directly to Trump.
In interviews, Scaramucci repeatedly warned Trump aides that he was launching a new effort to ferret out individuals leaking embarrassing information. He began tarnishing Priebus publicly, first in an interview on CNN, comparing his relationship with Priebus to that of the fratricidal brothers Cain and Abel, and later in an expletive-laced rant to the New Yorker, where he described the former Republican National Committee chairman as a “paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac.”
Scaramucci’s crude comments last week about Priebus and senior strategist Steve Bannon had not seemed to initially agitate Trump, who invited Scaramucci the next morning to fly aboard Air Force One and later announced he was replacing Priebus, an apparent coup for Scaramucci.
A White House official said Trump originally found Scaramucci’s comments about Priebus and Bannon — which described the men as paranoid and self-serving — as funny and “amusing.”
But as time went on, the President became annoyed with the negative coverage because it “took over everything,” the official said. In Trump’s mind, his new communications director’s profile had become outsized. Scaramucci was “grandstanding,” one source close to the White House said, a grave misdeed that Trump punished by banishing him to “the cheap seats in centerfield.”
The President asked a very close ally on Sunday if Scaramucci had seriously and permanently damaged himself. The ally replied that he had, a person familiar with the conversation said, and Trump seemed to agree.
Nevertheless, Scaramucci began Monday believing he could weather the storm surrounding him, three people who talked to him said. “He had no plans to resign,” a person who talked to Scaramucci Monday said. “He thought he could fix it.”
It turned out he was wrong.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/01/politics/scaramucci-kelly-departure-tick-tock/index.html

So in the end Scaramucci, Trump’s latest hit-man (politically speaking), did NOT see the (political) bullet aimed at his own BACK.

“Trump personally crafted son’s misleading account of Russia meeting – report”

Excerpt:
Donald Trump personally dictated the press statement issued in the name of his eldest son Donald Jr that misleadingly downplayed the significance of a 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer, a new report alleged on Monday night.

According to the Washington Post, Trump personally intervened to prevent senior White House advisers from issuing a full and truthful account of the meeting on 9 June 2016 in which Donald Trump Jr, the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and then presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort came face-to-face with four Russians. One of the Russian visitors was the well-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. […] – The Guardian

There’s a pattern here – and, for me, it started with Flynn who was hired to help “take out” Hillary by painting her as a criminal and promoting the message of “Lock Her Up!”

Trump wanted Flynn to stick around. Flynn, however, unexpectedly *shot himself in the foot” and was forced out. At some point in time, Donald decided it was time for Spicer, Preibus and even (I believe) Bannon, to go. Enter Trump’s mini-me, Scaramucci, who delivered the *hits* Donald approved of….UNTIL the over-the-top *hit* on Preibus prompted significant blowback. Time is up for Scaramucci. Bannon survives…..for now.

Trump being Trump RAN for cover and hired another hit-man to take out Scaramucci – General Kelly; who apparently is himself so craven that, as per reports, Kelly was so angered by the firing of Comey, he called up Comey and expressed his anger as well as indicated that he’d considered resigning as Dir. of DHS, in a show of solidarity with Comey. Apparently that’s water under the bridge now.

Word to Kelly: Don’t think your days aren’t numbered too…because they are.