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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
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)such cowardly weasling in service to the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.
sad
gademocrat7
(10,680 posts)Can't face reporters in a lit room.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I think I need to read this one.
Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)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.