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1999.03.19Sean Spicer makes statements acting as Congressman Mark Foley's official Spokesman articles.sun-sentinel.com
Rep. Mark Foley would later resign from Congress in disgrace after its revealed he is a pedophile who attempted to silicate an underage boy.
2017.01.01Sean Spicer, Trump's incoming Press Secretary, tells ABCNews 'This Week' that Trump plans to repeal 'a lot of Obama's actions on day one.' abcnews.go.com (See also First 100 Days)
2017.01.20Sean Spicer's first news conference pushes a lie, and it's part of a pattern. weeklystandard.com (See also False Statements)
2017.01.21Official statement by Sean Spicer attacking accurate reporting of inaugural crowds. whitehouse.gov (See also Attempts to Discredit Media, False Statements, Assaults on Facts)
2017.01.22Spicer earns Four Pinocchios for false claims on inauguration crowd size. washingtonpost.com (See also Assaults on Facts, False Statements)
2017.01.23Sean Spicer lies for second straight day about inauguration ratings and statistics. vulture.com (See also False Statements, Assaults on Facts)
Regardless of how Spicer and the Trump administration want to spin the numbers, or play cute with language, all available evidence suggests Trump’s inauguration fell far short of being the historical juggernaut they claim it was.
2017.01.23Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary defends his false statements about inauguration crowds And makes some new questionable claims. motherjones.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media, False Statements)
2017.01.24Trump Spokesman Sean Spicer reiterated Trump's claim again, with zero evidence that millions of people voted illegally. buzzfeed.com (See also False Statements, Assaults on Facts, 2016 Election)
The president believed millions voted illegally based on "studies" but he did not elaborate on what those studies were.
2017.01.26Sean Spicer quickly backpedals on paying for Wall with 20% tax on Mexican imports. talkingpointsmemo.com (See also Mexico, Immigration, Mexico Wall)
2017.01.26With Kushner and Spicer, The Washington Post has now identified five Trump family members or top administration appointees who were registered in two states during the fall election. washingtonpost.com (See also Voter Fraud, Jared Kushner)
2017.01.30Trump faces growing state department mutiny against immigration ban as more than 200 diplomats sign ‘dissent’ memo criticizing executive order theguardian.com (See also First 100 Days, Muslim Immigration Ban, Department of State)
"The memo is being sent through the state department’s “dissent channel”, set up at the time of the Vietnam war to allow alternative points of view to be aired inside the institution. Under its foreign affairs manual, dissenters are strictly protected from reprisals, but the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, warned the signers they should resign if they did not like the policy."
2017.02.06Trump spokesman Sean Spicer falsely claims anti-Trump protests are part of a "very paid, Astroturf-type movement." washingtonpost.com (See also Assaults on Facts, Assaults on Civil Liberties)
2017.02.06White House press secretary Sean Spicer resurrects repeatedly debunked false claims that people protesting President Donald Trump are actually bankrolled by well-funded progressive organizations to discredit anti-Trump protests. mediamatters.org (See also Assaults on Facts, Attempts to Discredit Media, False Statements)
2017.02.07According to multiple sources, Trump regrets hiring Spicer as his press secretary and is blaming Priebus. thehill.com (See also First 100 Days, Attempts to Discredit Media, Assaults on Facts)
2017.02.08Press Secretary Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened. cnn.com (See also First 100 Days, Assaults on Facts, False Statements)
2017.02.09Sean Spicer corrected his contention that a terror attack took place in Atlanta, saying he meant Orlando despite having repeated the statement three different times. cnn.com (See also First 100 Days, False Statements, Assaults on Facts)
2017.02.22In reponse to Spicer, the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect responded with three specific actions that Trump could take to demonstrate his commitment to ending anti-Semitism, including firing Stephen Bannon. facebook.com (See also Anti-Semitism)
2017.02.22In response to comments from the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect regarding Trump's statement that anti-Semitism is "horrible" and should "stop," Sean Spicer said, "I wish the Anne Frank Center had praised Donald Trump for fighting anti-Semitism'" independent.co.uk (See also Anti-Semitism)
2017.02.23Sean Spicer says Justice Department will "take action" against states that have legalized marijuana. townhall.com (See also First 100 Days, Department of Justice)
2017.02.23Spicer said he expects states to be subject to “greater enforcement” of federal laws against marijuana use washingtonpost.com (See also Department of Justice, Domestic Policy)
2017.02.23White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says Trump sees "a big difference" between use of marijuana for medical purposes and for recreational purposes and that the federal government could step up enforcement against marijuana use in states. washingtonpost.com (See also First 100 Days)
2017.02.24Hours after Trump criticizes as “fake news” organizations that publish anonymously sourced reports that reflect poorly on him, including those tying his associates to Russia, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer bars many major news organizations from a White House briefing. nytimes.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media, Fascism)
2017.02.24Sean Spicer denies hate crime murder had anything to do with Donald Trump's 'America First' rhetoric. dailyrecord.co.uk (See also Hate Crimes, First 100 Days)
2017.02.26Sean Spicer goes through his staff's phones trying to find who has been leaking info to the press then tells his staff not to leak that he was looking at their phones. News of the "do not leak this meeting" meeting was promptly leaked to Politico. politico.com
2017.02.27Trump signs off on press secretary Sean Spicer's decision to check aides' cell phones to make certain they aren't communicating with reporters via text message or encrypted apps. cnn.com (See also First 100 Days, Assaults on Government)
2017.03.13Spicer says Trump still believes millions of illegal immigrants voted in the election. talkingpointsmemo.com (See also First 100 Days, Belief in Conspiracy Theories, Assaults on Facts)
2017.03.20As House Intelligence Committee investigates possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer claims Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort—who's been paid millions by Russia—played a "limited role" in the campaign. cnn.com (See also Assaults on Facts, Russia, Russian Meddling in Election)
2017.03.22Sean Spicer is asked if Trump would of hired Paul Manafort, if he'd known about his $10 million dollar link to Putin. Spicer responds with, "I don't know." dailykos.com (See also Paul Manafort, First 100 Days, Russia)
2017.03.22The White House responds to push back against Manafort and his connection to Russia by attacking Hillary Clinton. politico.com (See also First 100 Days, Russia, Paul Manafort)
2017.04.04Sean Spicer blames Obama's weakness for the recent attacks where Assad used gas to kill dozens of civilians. He then goes on to refuse to answer questions about Russia's role in the bombing. rawstory.com (See also First 100 Days, Russia, Syria)
2017.06.20Over the course of the Trump administration, the White House’s daily press briefings have been pared progressively further back; they are now shorter, less frequent, and routinely held off-camera. theatlantic.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media, Steve Bannon)
2017.08.08Trump gets a folder full of positive news about himself twice a day. news.vice.com (See also Unpresidential Behavior, Reince Priebus)
The only feedback the White House communications shop has ever gotten in all these months is: “It needs to be more fucking positive,” so some in the White House ruefully refer to the packet as “the propaganda document.”
2017.12.02A transition advisor to Donald Trump wrote in an email weeks before his inauguration that sanctions would make it difficult to ease relations with Russia, “which has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him.” thedailybeast.com (See also Trump Relationship with Russia, Michael Flynn, Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon)
2017.12.02Michael Flynn’s admission that senior transition officials gave him orders last December casts doubt on the Trump administration’s effort to portray Flynn’s pre-inauguration diplomacy as a rogue operation, as Mike Pence, former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, and former press secretary Sean Spicer all strongly denied early this year that Flynn discussed sanctions last December with Russia’s ambassador to the US. buzzfeed.com (See also Michael Flynn, Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia, Mike Pence, Reince Priebus)