I believe it’s a reasonable question: How much longer can Sean Spicer keep defending a president who is unable to tell the truth?
Donald J. Trump keeps trotting out whopper after whopper, putting his press secretary in a patently untenable position of having to defend what he must know is a lie.
Brent Budowsky, a contributor to The Hill, posits the notion that Spicer should quit and that he well might become one of the president’s most high-profile casualties in his ongoing war with the truth.
Here is Budowsky’s essay for The Hill.
I believe Spicer hasĀ principles. Sadly — in my view, at least — heĀ seems to haveĀ taken some sort of secret oath to bury them while he briefs the media about the president’s torrent of untruths.
The Barack Obama wiretapping fiction is the latest example. Spicer surely knows the president doesn’t have a shred of evidence to back up his allegation that Obama wiretapped his offices at Trump Tower. Then he is forced to dance this rhetorical jig with the media about so-called “air quotes” around the word “wiretap,” meaning that Trump didn’t mean what he said.
How long can this guy Spicer, who was Republican National Committee press secretary before joining the White House staff, continue this charade?
Everyone has his or her limits. Everyone. Even White House press spokesmen.