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struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
Wed May 10, 2017, 06:51 AM May 2017

Staff scrambled to explain

By Jenna Johnson
May 10 at 1:54 AM

... Spicer .. wanted to drop the bombshell news in an emailed statement but it was not transmitting quickly enough, so he ended up standing in the doorway of the press office around 5:40 p.m. and shouting a statement to reporters .. nearby. He then vanished, with .. staff locking the door .. his office ...

After Spicer spent several minutes hidden in the bushes .. an executive assistant in the press office .. told reporters .. Spicer would answer some questions, as long as he was not filmed ... Spicer then emerged.

"Just turn the lights off. Turn the lights off," he ordered ...

Spicer got his wish and was soon standing in near darkness .. with .. reporters .. gathered around him ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/10/as-trump-fired-comey-his-staff-scrambled-to-explain-why/?utm_term=.0c508f26bf58


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Staff scrambled to explain (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2017 OP
such cowardice Achilleaze May 2017 #1
Spicer is a cockroach. gademocrat7 May 2017 #2
Not The Onion? Cracklin Charlie May 2017 #3
The actions of a man working for a man with a mental illness Mr. Ected May 2017 #4

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
4. The actions of a man working for a man with a mental illness
Wed May 10, 2017, 08:03 AM
May 2017

It rubs off. The only way to explain away crazy is to act crazy yourself. Normalize it.

A part of me pities Sean Spicer. Like a giant boil, I wish one day he would just explode and tell us what he's REALLY thinking.

That would be a hoot.

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