The much touted new book from former White House spokesman Sean Spicer hits the shelves Tuesday and the publisher shared a few excerpts from “The Briefing.”
Among the highlights, Spicer revealed that the Trump campaign offered the New York Times the world exclusive that he was planning to run. “Maggie Haberman of the New York Times had been offered an exclusive on Donald Trump’s announcement that he would run for president, but she took a pass because she didn’t think he was credible.”
He also told of meeting with Trump after Mitt Romney lost to President Obama in 2012. “Romney blew it,” said Trump. “He should have had me speak at the [Republican] convention. He could have used me more.” …
Former President Jimmy Carter’s team is still campaigning to get him some R-E-S-P-E-C-T. The latest is biographer and former aide Stuart Eizenstat. He told a National Archives audience that his former boss was “The most accomplished one-term president we’ve had in modern American history,” but, the “most under appreciated president.” …
Influential New York fundraiser Bill White, a self-described “recovering Democrat” prominent in the LGBT community, has high praise for President Trump’s embrace of gays. White said he and his husband Bryan Eure used to feel uncomfortable in GOP circles before Trump, whom he hosted last month. When “I said, ‘My husband and I,’ people would look, sneer and laugh or something and Donald Trump respects us as a couple and he’s been welcoming.” …
