{"id":79123,"date":"2017-07-28T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=79123"},"modified":"2017-07-28T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:10:53","slug":"79123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=79123","title":{"rendered":"Sean Spicer Resigned Because of the Scaramucci WHCD Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN<br \/>\nThe New York Times<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video\/players\/offsite\/index.html?videoId=100000005176155\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"story-body-supplemental\">\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-1\">\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"232\" data-total-count=\"232\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, resigned Friday after telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed with his appointment of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-scaramucci-communications-director.html\">Anthony Scaramucci<\/a>, a New York financier, as his new communications director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"372\" data-total-count=\"604\">After offering Mr. Scaramucci the job on Friday morning, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Spicer to stay on as press secretary, reporting to Mr. Scaramucci. But Mr. Spicer rejected the offer, expressing his belief that Mr. Scaramucci\u2019s hiring would add to the confusion and uncertainty already engulfing the White House, according to two people with direct knowledge of the exchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"89\" data-total-count=\"693\">Mr. Spicer\u2019s top deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, will serve as press secretary instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"387\" data-total-count=\"1080\">The long-anticipated resignation rattled an administration already reeling from the most trying two-week stretch of Mr. Trump\u2019s presidency. The president\u2019s health care effort foundered in the Senate last week, and next week promises no respite, with his son Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, due to testify before Congress on questions about their contacts with Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"545\" data-total-count=\"1625\">If the moves amounted to a kind of organizational reset, it was not part of a pivot or grand redesign. The president, according to a dozen people familiar with the situation, meant to upgrade, not overhaul, his existing staff with the addition of a smooth-talking, Long Island-bred former hedge fund manager who is currently the senior vice president and chief strategy officer at the Export-Import Bank, which he joined just last month. His rapport with the president establishes a new power center in a building already bristling with rivalry.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"315\" data-total-count=\"1940\">Despite the move, the immutable reality of the Trump White House remains the same: The president has no intention of changing his behavior \u2014 he merely believes his communications staff needs to defend him better \u2014 and Mr. Scaramucci even suggested his role would be to unshackle an already unfettered president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body-supplemental\">\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-2\">\n<h5 class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"286\" data-total-count=\"2226\">\u201cI think there\u2019s been, at times, a disconnect between the way we see the president and how much we love the president and the way some of you perhaps see the president,\u201d Mr. Scaramucci said during a news conference that kicked off with his announcement of Ms. Sanders\u2019s new job.<\/h5>\n<div class=\"image\">\n<h5><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-viewer-candidate\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/07\/22\/us\/politics\/22dc-trump-2\/merlin-to-scoop-125044199-217732-master675.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/07\/22\/us\/politics\/22dc-trump-2\/merlin-to-scoop-125044199-217732-superJumbo.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"Anthony Scaramucci at Trump Tower last year. Mr. Scaramucci, who founded the global investment firm SkyBridge Capital and is a Fox News contributor, is known for his spirited on-air defense of President Trump.\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Sam Hodgson for The New York Times\" \/><span class=\"caption-text\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Anthony Scaramucci at Trump Tower last year. Mr. Scaramucci, who founded the global investment firm SkyBridge Capital and is a Fox News contributor, is known for his spirited on-air defense of President Trump.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1em;\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Credit<\/span>Sam Hodgson for The New York Times<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"245\" data-total-count=\"2471\">\u201cI certainly see the American people probably see the president the way I do,\u201d he added, contradicting a raft of recent polls showing Mr. Trump\u2019s approval rating below 40 percent nationally. \u201cBut we want to get that message out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"320\" data-total-count=\"2791\">In a statement on Friday night, Mr. Trump said, \u201cAnthony is a person I have great respect for,\u201d and went on to describe the problem he hopes he will solve. \u201cWe have accomplished so much, and we are being given credit for so little,\u201d he said. \u201cThe good news is the people get it, even if the media doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"160\" data-total-count=\"2951\">In a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/888575966259314691\">tweet<\/a>\u00a0late Friday, Mr. Trump also called Mr. Spicer \u201ca wonderful person who took tremendous abuse from the Fake News Media &#8211; but his future is bright!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"199\" data-total-count=\"3150\">Mr. Spicer\u2019s departure ends an excruciating saga even for a highly factionalized White House riven with intrigue. He had hoped to last a year as press secretary. He quit after six months and a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"315\" data-total-count=\"3465\">A former spokesman and strategist for the Republican National Committee, Mr. Spicer was a frequent target of the president\u2019s ire during the first few months of the administration. He attained a notoriety unusual for a presidential spokesman, his combative style spawning a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/14\/arts\/television\/snl-melissa-mccarthy-sean-spicer.html\">caricature on \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"187\" data-total-count=\"3652\">Mr. Trump expressed gratitude for Mr. Spicer\u2019s service in a statement and predicted that Mr. Spicer will succeed in the future. \u201cJust look at his great television ratings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-4\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"414\" data-total-count=\"4066\">The resignation is a blow to the embattled White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, the former Republican National Committee chairman who brought Mr. Spicer into the West Wing despite skepticism from Mr. Trump, who initially questioned his loyalty. Mr. Scaramucci described his relationship with Mr. Priebus as a brotherly one where they \u201crough each other up,\u201d and he called Mr. Priebus a \u201cgood friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"sean-spicer-white-house-press-briefing\" class=\"interactive promo layout-large\"><figcaption class=\"interactive-caption\">\n<h2 class=\"interactive-headline\">All Joking Aside, Here\u2019s How Sean Spicer Shook Up the White House Press Briefing<\/h2>\n<p class=\"interactive-summary\">Mr. Spicer typically calls on media organizations outside the mainstream before getting to more traditional news outlets.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><div class=\"interactive-image-container\">\n<div class=\"interactive-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/02\/07\/us\/politics\/sean-spicer-white-house-press-briefing-1486671013087\/sean-spicer-white-house-press-briefing-1486671013087-master495-v4.png\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"interactive-overlay\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"361\" data-total-count=\"4427\">During the transition, Mr. Trump had planned to appoint Mr. Scaramucci, 53, a Harvard Law School graduate, as the director of his office of public liaison, but the offer was revoked at the request of Mr. Priebus, who had concerns about Mr. Scaramucci\u2019s overseas investments. An aide to Mr. Priebus said he had not blocked it, but merely tried to slow it down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"330\" data-total-count=\"4757\">Mr. Scaramucci\u2019s appointment came two months after the previous communications director, Mike Dubke, stepped down as the official in charge of Mr. Trump\u2019s messaging. The eventual appointment of Mr. Scaramucci was backed by the president\u2019s daughter Ivanka, Mr. Kushner and the commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"333\" data-total-count=\"5090\">Mr. Kushner has grown increasingly critical of both Mr. Spicer and Mr. Priebus, whom he regards as party establishment figures who operate out of self-interest. He also supported Mr. Trump\u2019s decision to supplant Marc E. Kasowitz as his lead attorney on matters pertaining to Russia, according to people familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"375\" data-total-count=\"5465\">Mr. Priebus and Stephen K. Bannon, the president\u2019s chief strategist, both strongly opposed the appointment of Mr. Scaramucci \u2014 in large part because he enjoys an easy banter and direct line to Mr. Trump, potentially threatening their positions, four people briefed on the discussions said. People close to both men insisted they had not opposed the move by the president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"209\" data-total-count=\"5674\">Mr. Trump, aggravated by their opposition, dressed the pair down in a testy Oval Office exchange around the time he decided to offer Mr. Scaramucci \u2014 known in Trump\u2019s circle as \u201cThe Mooch\u201d \u2014 the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"200\" data-total-count=\"5874\">The president, according to three people with knowledge of the situation, said one of the reasons he hired Mr. Scaramucci was to cut down on anonymous leaking \u2014 and took a swipe at his two advisers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"179\" data-total-count=\"6053\">He asked them how the leaks were happening, according to a person familiar with the discussions, and called Mr. Spicer a \u201cgood guy\u201d who leaks only when told to by Mr. Priebus.<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"270\" data-total-count=\"6323\">Mr. Scaramucci met with Mr. Priebus on Friday, according to a West Wing official, and the two agreed to work together. When the pair joined Mr. Spicer in the second-floor office of the press secretary in a show of unity, applause could be heard echoing down the hallway.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-5\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"91\" data-total-count=\"6414\">But senior officials, including Ms. Sanders, were said to be stunned by the sudden shuffle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"299\" data-total-count=\"6713\">While Ms. Sanders will preside at the daily briefing most days, Mr. Trump has told his advisers he is open to rotating new people into the slot. He is said to be especially high on Sebastian Gorka, a blustery foreign policy official who has been accused of having ties to far-right groups in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"340\" data-total-count=\"7053\">During the transition, Mr. Priebus and Mr. Spicer stocked the press shop with their associates from the Republican National Committee, rankling Trump campaign loyalists who reminded the president that Mr. Priebus had suggested he drop out of the race after an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/08\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-women.html\">\u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d tape<\/a>\u00a0of Mr. Trump\u2019s comments about women became public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"257\" data-total-count=\"7310\">Mr. Priebus urged Mr. Trump to hire Mr. Spicer and another lieutenant, Katie Walsh, as deputy chief of staff. But Ms. Walsh left the White House after a short time when Mr. Kushner and other West Wing officials forced her out, without Mr. Priebus objecting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"303\" data-total-count=\"7613\">Mr. Trump and Mr. Spicer did not have a close relationship, but the two spent hours together and Mr. Trump said he felt sorry for the ridicule his press secretary received because of his portrayal on \u201c<a class=\"meta-classifier\" title=\"More articles about the Saturday Night Live.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/s\/saturday_night_live\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>.\u201d He repeatedly told aides to convey to Mr. Spicer that he wanted him to stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"93\" data-total-count=\"7706\">But by the six-month mark of Mr. Trump\u2019s presidency, both men had had enough of each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"456\" data-total-count=\"8162\">In recent weeks, Mr. Trump had told people that Mr. Spicer was no longer \u201ctough,\u201d one of the harshest insults he can level. And Mr. Spicer told friends he was tired of being blindsided by Mr. Trump, and weary of Mr. Trump\u2019s constant criticism. He instituted the highly contentious practice of holding off-camera briefings, less so to snub reporters than to avoid Mr. Trump\u2019s critiques of his performance, according to one of Mr. Spicer\u2019s friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"262\" data-total-count=\"8424\" data-node-uid=\"1\">The end came in operatic fashion, befitting Mr. Scaramucci\u2019s namesake \u2014 a stock character in Italian musical theater. As Mr. Scaramucci made his big entrance, Mr. Spicer exited quietly, disheartened that the president never quite appreciated his performance.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"262\" data-total-count=\"8424\" data-node-uid=\"1\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/21\/us\/politics\/sean-spicer-resigns-as-white-house-press-secretary.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/21\/us\/politics\/sean-spicer-resigns-as-white-house-press-secretary.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}