Sean Spicer: The Steele Dossier and “Radical Nation”

“I got the call on January 10th [2017] from CNN and then BuzzFeed about them running with this hoax. I pointed out at the time that it was wrong. I could demonstrably prove it was wrong. And yet, they stuck by it…”

On November 23rd, Sean Spicer joined Merion West editor-in-chief Erich Prince to discuss his recent book RADICAL NATION: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America. Mr. Spicer served as the first of President Donald Trump’s White House Press Secretaries. In 2018, he released his book The Briefing: Politics, the Press, and the President about his time in the White House, and, last year, he began hosting Spicer & Co. on Newsmax TV. In this interview, Mr. Spicer and Mr. Prince discuss RADICAL NATION, recent events on Capitol Hill such as the reconciliation bill, and recent updates about the Steele Dossier.

Good to hear from you, Sean, and I’m looking forward to chatting about your book. I had a chance to read it this weekend and enjoyed reading.

Thank you very much; that means a lot.

I wanted to start off by asking you about this poignant anecdote, in my view, about that photo of Bernie Sanders sitting at the inauguration in those mittens. You narrate how the woman who gifted Sanders those mittens, a woman from Vermont by the name of Jen Ellis, described having to shut down her own company making these mittens, citing taxation and regulation. And here she is cheering on Bernie [Sanders] and the Biden administration, which is presumably going to enact a lot of those policies, and I think that’s a disconnect we see a lot.