Sean Spicer accused of using racial slur at a heated book signing event
Source: USA Today
Sean Spicer's hotly anticipated book signing took a turn for the worse Friday when the former Trump administration press secretary was accused of using a racial slur toward a black classmate during his high school years.
The ex-communications director was at a book signing in Middletown, Rhode Island for his recent release of "The Briefing" about his time with President Donald Trump. At the signing, Alex Lombard, a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, approached him.
Lombard told Spicer they attended the Portsmouth Abbey School together, a Catholic prep school in Rhode Island. After Spicer said hello to Lombard and confirmed that he boxed in school, Lombard charged Spicer with calling him the N-word before one of their fights, according to a video from the Newport Daily News. Lombard was then escorted away by a security guard.
A publicist told The Associated Press that was "taken aback" by the "outrageous claim."
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RockRaven
(14,782 posts)I've got a goddamned bridge to sell you.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)Time to turn up the heat.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)By then, especially in Rhode Island, Spicer can hardly argue this is just how people talked. It sure the fuck isn't "locker room talk."
markses66
(94 posts)He's the same age, approximately, as the Howard Beach kids, or Joey Fama.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)It reads like he used the slur at the event.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)USA Today is definitely to blame.
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)Derailment fail.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Made it sound like he used the slur at the event.
Igel
(35,191 posts)or whether he used the word 30 years ago when he was 16.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)everyone associated with this current heel of a leader has and is using it frequently including the current press spokesperson and her dear leader she lies for every time she is at the podium. I would venture to guess, a majority of white people have used this description of AA. They all don't truly think anyone of colour is fooled by their fake protestations. I hope the AA boxer kicked spicer's ass.
I really am getting fed up with all these white nationalists fucking over the country and its people. Times are ripe for what wypipo are looking for, a race war. Just so I am understood clearly. I know what trump and his deplorables want. A Hitlerian false-flag reason to declare martial law and never leave office.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)lol
That's a good one!
rurallib
(62,344 posts)or Mr. Lombard?
Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)
and the guy did not take it as playful or appropriate for the sport. Spicer is deplorable.
JI7
(89,173 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)It completely, and obviously accidentally, misrepresents the content of the story.
Ligyron
(7,592 posts)And he a "garbage person" "You're garbage and so is your book"? Words to that effect as they were being escorted out.
Or was the clip I saw of another deplorable at another deplorable event who was being excoriated So hard to keep these cretins and the righteous backlash straight.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)but I dont think bringing up high school misbehavior is appropriate. Plenty of people back then said horrible things to me and about me, but teenagers do awful things. I said lots of ugly shit too, but thats what immature children do. I dont hold any grudges from back then. Sometimes you have to let shit go and get on with your life. Spicers a lowlife, but I say that because of his adult behavior, not because of stupid shit he said when he was a teenager.