TRUMP PEOPLE/SEAN SPICER: “On Sunday night, the White House sent out its daily schedule — as it does every day. Except, one thing was different: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, rather than her ostensible boss, Sean Spicer, would be giving the daily press briefing on Monday [6-5-17].
The White House sought to play the substitution as a nothing-burger — noting that past administrations had used their deputies to fill in as daily briefers when necessary.
Which, like many things that come out of this administration, has a touch of truth to it but is not, technically, true. Deputy press secretaries in the past have filled in when the principal press secretary is otherwise occupied — as Sanders did when Spicer was on naval reserve duty recently.
But Spicer was in the White House on Monday — as Sanders confirmed. She added that Spicer is “taking on extra duties” since the White House doesn’t have a communications director. (Mike Dubke resigned last week.)”
-Chris Cillizza, “The mysterious disappearance of Sean Spicer,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 6, 2017 10:08am