White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer strongly defended the crowd size of President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Saturday, using his first official briefing as the administration’s spokesman to blast the media for what he called “deliberately false reporting.”
In his maiden voyage as the Trump adminstration’s chief press liaison, Spicer harangued the press corps for at least four of the five minutes he stood before them. Primarily, he took them to task on the number of spectators present at Inauguration Day.
“Yesterday at a time when our nation and the world watched the peaceful transition of power …some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting,” he said. Spicer took issue with a tweet from a reporter, whom he did not name, who posted about the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. being removed from the Oval Office—something Spicer flatly denied. – READ MORE
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