Spicer loses his cool with the press [View all]
Source: Politico
White House press secretary Sean Spicer tangled with the press corps during the daily briefing on Thursday, as reporters repeatedly pressed him to explain how Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch’s criticism of Donald Trump got twisted, among other controversies.
Spicer appeared to reach his boiling point when, after a six-minute stretch of inquiries related to Gorsuch, he batted down a question about why Trump has time to tweet about a department store but neglected to tweet about a recent attack on a mosque in Quebec.
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Spicer entered the briefing room Thursday afternoon facing no shortage of negative headlines: Kellyanne Conway’s potential ethics violation over promoting Ivanka Trump’s brand on Fox News, a Reuters report detailing President Donald Trump’s private call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in which he slammed a nuclear treaty after first asking his aides what the treaty was, and questions about Gorsuch appearing to denounce Trump’s attacks on the judiciary.
In a terse response, Spicer said Conway had been “counseled” after urging Americans to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff” during a Fox News interview from the White House briefing room Thursday morning. Similarly, he maintained that Trump’s conversation with Putin was “a private call between the two of them” and declined to elaborate or verify or deny the contents of the report.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/sean-spicer-fights-with-media-during-press-briefing-234858
ummm... sorry ... no "private" calls ... ever again, TrumpleThinSkin
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