Sean Spicer’s book tour of embarrassments just keeps on rolling.
On Friday, Spicer was at a bookstore in Middleton, RI, promoting his “garbage book,” The Briefing: Politics, the Press, and the President, when a black man standing in line asked President Trump’s former spin doctor if he remembered calling the man the N-word while trying to fight him as teenagers.
The man, whom the Associated Press identified as Alex Lombard, began the exchange by asking Spicer if he remembered going to school together at Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island. “Yes, how are you?” Spicer responded.
“You don’t remember you tried to fight me?” Lombard continued. People standing in line laughed, thinking the exchange was a joke. “Yeah, you know, but you called me [the N-word] first, right? Remember? Remember? You called me [the N-word] first, Sean,” Lombard added.
That prompted groans from Spicer’s admirers, who shouted “Get him out!” as Lombard was escorted out of the bookstore. But before he left, Lombard added, “I was 14. I was a scared kid then, Sean. I’m not scared to fight you now.”
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Spicer’s publicist, Lauren McCue, told the AP later that Spicer “can’t recall any incident like this happening.” She added that it was “a very odd time” for Lombard to make the accusation.
Not really.
On Wednesday, Spicer was heckled at a book signing and Q&A in New York by a man who called him a “garbage person” who wrote a “garbage book.” Earlier, in an exchange with the BBC’s Emily Maitlis, Maitlis admonished the guy who once hid in the White House’s bushes to avoid answering questions from the press about former FBI Director James Comey’s firing. She accused Spicer of being a willing agent for lying Donald Trump.
“You played with the truth. You lead us down a dangerous path. You have corrupted discourse for the entire world by going along with these lies,” Maitlis remarked.
And earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal made Spicer look like a gigantic idiot by pointing out the glaring errors in his new book. These include mistakes like calling the former British MI6 agent who authored the infamous Trump-Russia dossier “Michael Steele” instead of “Christopher Steele”; recalling an exchange with reporters in the Obama White House a decade before Barack Obama was even president; and praising the media skills of former congressman Mark Foley without mentioning that Foley was caught sending sexually explicit messages to teenage boys.
Any time, really, is a good time to call out the swindlers and con men and women who belong to the Trump clan, past and present. While they may talk a tough game, as Mr. Lombard points out, they really are just a bunch of cowards and liars.