

Trump eventually bought the club and renamed it Trump National Golf Club Westchester, and true to Trump’s alleged prediction, Scavino eventually became its manager-succeeding Carolyn Kepcher, who left to join The Apprentice. Scavino said he remembered Trump saying, “You are going to work for me one day.” I said, ‘I am never spending this money.’ I still have both bills.” It was two bills-two hundred-dollar bills. “I’ll never forget the day his limo first pulled up,” Scavino told the publication. Since high school, he’d spent his summers caddying at what was then called Briar Hall Country Club and one day, Trump, who was considering buying it, showed up. Scavino met Trump during his freshman year as a communications major at SUNY Plattsburgh, he told Westchester magazine. Trump seems to inspire a certain kind of Northeastern man to get down in just about any trench with him without a second thought. But the idea that he would be down in the trenches of anti-Semitic smut with Trump at 40 years old is not quite the surprise you’d think. He's a father who twice met the pope and was named an Inspiring Catholic of 2012 by Our Sunday Visitor. Scavino is a devoutly religious husband to a wife with what he says is chronic Lyme disease. I proudly celebrate holidays w/ my wife’s amazing Jewish family for the past 16 years. “For the MSM to suggest that I am antisemite is AWFUL.

On Twitter, Scavino was even more defensive. “It was lifted from an anti-Hillary Twitter user where countless images appear.” He added, “The sheriff’s badge-which is available under Microsoft’s ‘shapes’-fit with the theme of corrupt Hillary and that is why I selected it.” “The social media graphic used this weekend was not created by the campaign nor was it sourced from an anti-Semitic site,” Scavino said in his own statement. Trump’s critics-including House Speaker Paul Ryan-labeled the graphic anti-Semitic, but Trump, true to form, blamed the media for his own actions. From there the meme made its way to a white supremacist message board. The graphic was apparently put together by a Twitter user who also distributed an image of a swastika made out of photos of Hillary Clinton’s head. And, within the confines of a red Star of David, “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” On Saturday, a graphic was sent from Trump’s personal Twitter depicted Hillary Clinton, in black and white, before a pile of money. “Is there anything he could say or do that would lead you to abandon him?” Scavino was asked in April.įor the briefest moment, he looked off into space-almost a suggestion of introspection, though he never quite got there. He is everything Trump, the de facto Republican nominee, looks for in an employee: confident despite little reason to be bright enough to take orders but not enough to question them frankly just lucky to be there and above all-mostly due to that last thing-loyal. His nose is permanently scrunched up, like he’s smelling something awful, and his lips are permanently pressed together, like he’s tasting something sour. Scavino has a large, square head and close-cropped hair. He suggested, instead, that the president should have done so on the previous Friday or Saturday night, during Shabbat, when a considerable portion of Jewish people forgo television and other technology.Īnd then he posted another video, one that implied, with no discernible evidence, that Ted Cruz had an affair with his former staffer Amanda Carpenter, a married mother of two who was forced to go out and declare, on CNN, where she now works, that she has always been faithful to her husband.Ī registered independent, Scavino couldn’t even vote for his boss in the New York primary. He criticized Barack Obama for giving a televised address on the first night of Hanukkah. The video was a hoax, footage of a 2012 protest that had been repurposed by the fringe right as anti-refugee propaganda. Before there was the controversy over a tweet involving the Star of David, Hillary Clinton, and a pile of money, there were other screw-ups.ĭan Scavino, Donald Trump’s social media chief, once shared a video he claimed was of Syrian refugees rallying in support of ISIS in the streets of Germany.
