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…your enemies. As the debate went on, Priebus pushed for one of his deputies at the Republican National Committee, Sean Spicer, a well-liked forty-five-year-old Washington political professional with a string of posts on the Hill in the George W. Bush years as well as with the RN...

Spicer understood after a while—although he began to understand this

Sean Spicer and everybody else from the communications

the blame for the episode was now put at Spicer’s

in his family’s defense. “What does Spicer’s forty-member

knowing that Spicer was on his way out but having decided not to take his

” Ivanka told Spicer when she explained the rationale for

who said again that he really wanted Spicer to be a part

White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s recent reference to

… again the response surprised him—and, as though every time was the first time, he could not modify his behavior. Sean Spicer caught the brunt of the daily drama, turning this otherwise reasonable, mild-mannered, process-oriented professional into a joke figure standing at the W...

…nauguration, the president had invented a million or so people who did not exist. He sent his new press secretary, Sean Spicer— whose personal mantra would shortly become “You can’t make this shit up’—to argue his case in a media moment that turned Spicer, quite a buttoned-down p...

…d been working in Hollywood, acted as Kushner and his wife’s personal rep—not least of all because the couple felt that Spicer, owing his allegiance to Priebus, was not aggressively representing them. This was explicit. “Josh is Jared’s Hope,” was his internal West Wing job descr...

… to mention he always looks like shit). Priebus was weak (not to mention he was short—a midget). Kushner was a suck-up. Spicer was stupid (and looks terrible too). Conway was a crybaby. Jared and Ivanka should never have come to Washington. His callers, largely because they foun...

…and permanent executive branch staff, culminating in late February with an all-hands meeting of staffers called by Sean Spicer—cell phones surrendered at the door—during which the press secretary issued threats of random phone checks and admonitions about the use of encrypted tex...

…they rushed to say how firmly they supported the decision to get rid of Scaramucci. “So I punch you in the face,” Sean Spicer noted from the sidelines, “and then say, ‘Oh my god, we’ve got to get you to a hospital!’ ” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020100