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My lord, these people

Posted by linkmeister on 9 May 2017, 8:58 pm

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the professionalism of the White House staff: Spicer had wanted to drop the bombshell news in an emailed statement but it was not transmitting quickly enough, so he ended up standing in the doorway of the press office around 5:40 p.m. and shouting a statement to reporters who happened to …

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