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Spicer Book Offers Insight On Conservative Politics, Doubles Down On Misstatements

The former Trump press officer intelligently dissects the reward structure of viral Twitter and gives a valuable sketch of conservative politics, but he seems to have written "The Briefing" to an end.
<em>The Briefing</em>, a memoir by Sean Spicer, former press secretary for President Trump, hits shelves Tuesday.

Sean Spicer — testy, stumbling, and visibly unhappy — was not a very good press secretary. He seemed to dislike lying; the strain of it was evident.

Sarah Sanders, with her unembarrassed and bullish ability to just keep going, no matter how implausible the message, is much more convincing. Spicer just looked like the avatar of the Republican Party's moral crisis, sweating in a suit.

It was, he writes in , his new memoir of his time in the Trump White house, "a lonely job."

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