A former Trump administration official said the former president is “super worried” about how the New York hush-money trial will end.

Anthony Scaramucci, who was briefly White House communications director, said Donald Trump’s attacks on Justice Juan Merchan on Monday night and over the weekend are a “tell” about what Mr. Trump thinks.

“He is super nervous about this,” Mr. Scaramucci said Tuesday on CNN. “He knows the facts of the case, he knows exactly what happened, and he’s super worried about it, and that was a tell from him, so he’s show[ed] his cards last night.”

Ahead of Tuesday’s resumption of the trial in New York, Mr. Trump described the judge overseeing the trial as “radical” and “highly conflicted.”

Mr. Scaramucci, who has become a vocal critic of his former boss, said those attacks are his way of fending off accountability for wrongdoing.

“Those bombs that he launched last night at the judge and all the suggestions that he was making, all the spurious suggestions are out of Trump’s playbook,” he said.

Mr. Trump is accused of 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records related to reimbursements he made in 2016 to his then-fixer Michael Cohen.

Mr. Cohen had paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about a purported affair with Mr. Trump during election season. Mr. Trump denies any affair took place.

Mr. Scaramucci, who served on Mr. Trump’s campaign team, was White House communications director for 11 days in July 2017 but was fired for an interview in which he attacked other members of the administration. He has since turned on Mr. Trump and supports President Biden’s re-election bid.

• Victor Morton can be reached at vmorton@washingtontimes.com.