A former top aide to Donald Trump has confirmed what Elon Musk hinted at last week: there’s a massive secret hanging over the president — just not the one Musk named.
It started Thursday, when Musk made waves on X by posting, “Time to drop the really big bomb,” before claiming, “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files… That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
Trump’s camp denied it immediately, and Musk deleted the post a day later. But Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as Trump’s White House communications director, says something just as explosive is being kept under wraps — and it involves Vladimir Putin.
Speaking on The Daily Beast Podcast, Scaramucci didn’t buy Musk’s Epstein theory, but made it clear: Trump is compromised.
“Did he go over the line with Jeff Epstein and do something super-malevolent and super-nefarious? I don’t believe that’s the case because I think that would have come out,” he said.
But then came the hammer:
“I believe there is kompromat on Donald Trump. I don’t know what it is. We all used to say, ‘OK, what is it? What is the hold that Vladimir Putin has on this guy?’”
Scaramucci pointed to Trump’s puzzling loyalty to the Russian president as a red flag.
“He’s in a trainwreck situation at home, and yet he owns the president of the United States,” Scaramucci said. “How does he own the president of the United States? You tell me. He has to have something on him, OK, that we don’t understand.”
Then he doubled down:
“Something that would be too much for Trump, even Trump himself, to deal with.”
And in Scaramucci’s view, Trump’s deference to Putin isn’t just about admiration — it’s fear.
“Trump doesn’t love authoritarians. He loves himself, OK? And he would not be kowtowing to Putin, sitting in the biggest economy with the biggest military,” he said. “He would be shoving Putin, but he doesn’t shove Putin because they got something on him.”
The bomb Musk hinted at may not be what he said out loud — but according to Trump’s own former spokesman, something just as dangerous is ticking.
