Some guy who says he went to the same prep school as Sean Spicer confronted him and made some heavy accusations against him.
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer was accused by a man at a book signing on Friday of using a racial slur when the two were in prep school together, after which the man declared he was no longer afraid to “fight” Spicer.
In a video published by NewportRI.com, a man identified as Alex Lombard is seen yelling to Spicer during a book signing in Middletown, R.I., telling the Rhode Island native that they had attended the Portsmouth Abbey School together in the state.
“Sean, I was a day student at [Portsmouth] Abbey, too, with you,” Lombard said.
“Hey,” Spicer appears to respond to Lombard in the video. “Yes, how are you?”
“You don’t remember that you tried to fight me?” continued Lombard, who is African-American. “But you called me a [n-word] first.”
Security personnel are then seen in the video escorting the man out while another person in line calls for him to be arrested.
“I was 14 then. I was a scared kid then, Sean. I’m not scared to fight you now,” Lombard is heard yelling.
Here’s the video of the altercation:
Spicer’s reaction is completely that of someone who genuinely doesn’t remember doing such a thing:
Spicer’s reaction was not caught on video, but a publicist for the former White House aide told The Associated Press he was “taken aback” by the “outrageous” accusation.
Lauren McCue, a publicist for Regnery Publishing, said that Spicer “can’t recall any incident” like the one Lombard described.
I really don’t care for Spicer at all, but I don’t think anyone can just assume this accuser is telling the truth, or ignore the possibility that he exaggerated it, or doesn’t remember it correctly. Maybe Spicer did what he’s accused of. Even if he did, we all do stupid things at a young age. In any case, in the absence of real evidence, it’s foolish to cast aspersions on the character of either of these two.
It must be noted though, that they clearly planned this because there was an accomplice ready to record it, and they used it in a left-wing propaganda video.