2016 ELECTION/SEAN SPICER: “When former White House press secretary Sean Spicer bragged in an election-night retrospective this week about his central role at Trump Tower that night, some of his former colleagues did something very Spicer-like: They flipped out.
In the oral history published Tuesday by GQ Magazine, Spicer recalled of the historic day: ‘A group of us gathered on the fifth floor of Trump Tower in what could be described as basically an oversized utility room.’…
After the interview was published, four people who worked with Spicer on the campaign and at the RNC reached out to POLITICO to express surprise that he highlighted his presence on the fifth floor — which served as the nerve center of the campaign’s poll-monitoring operation and data war room that day — because party employees were given strict instructions prohibiting them from going there…
Spicer’s mere presence on the floor would not violate the order, attorneys familiar with the order said. And some former campaign operatives said they saw nothing unusual about his presence there, noting that the campaign’s television studio was also located on floor five.
But the four former colleagues who reached out to POLITICO said they were frustrated by the optics of Spicer discussing his presence there in a magazine story just weeks before a judge decides whether to renew the consent decree or let it expire…
Spicer declined to address the issue.”
-Annie Karni and Josh Gerstein, “Spicer’s election-night memories cause anxiety in GOP,” Politico, Nov. 10, 2017 02:37pm