Video: Former Classmate Confronts Sean Spicer at Book Signing: ‘You Called Me a N*gger’

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https://www.mediaite.com/politics/alex-lombard-sean-spicer-book-signing-video-outrageous-statement/

Former press secretary Sean Spicer was confronted at a book signing in Middleton, RI on Friday by a man who claimed Spicer tried to fight him and called him the N-word when they were both in school.

“Sean, I was a day student at [Portsmouth] Abbey, too, with you,” a man identified as Alex Lombard by the Newport Daily News says. “Don’t you remember? You don’t remember that you tried to fight me? But you called me a n*gger first.”

A man in a teal shirt and a security guard tried to push Lombard away but he kept talking.

“Get out of here” the people at the booking signing shout.

Spicer’s reaction, though, was not seen on the tape. However, on Saturday, AP published a statement from Regnery Publishing publicist Lauren McCue who said Spicer “can’t recall any incident.” She also says Spicer was “taken aback” by the “outrageous claim.”

 

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/spicer-former-classmate-accuses-him-of-using-racist-slur

Spicer’s Black Former Classmate Accuses Him Of Using Racist Slur


MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (AP) — A black man yelled at former White House press secretary Sean Spicer in a bookstore and accused Spicer of calling him a racial slur when they were students at a prep school decades ago.

Spicer was “taken aback” by the man’s “outrageous claim” and had no recollection of him or of being in school with him, his publicist said on Saturday.

Spicer was at a book signing in Middletown on Friday to promote his new book reflecting on his time at the press podium for President Donald Trump.

Alex Lombard, who was standing behind a small group of people waiting in line to meet Spicer and get him to sign the book, called out Spicer’s name and said they went to Portsmouth Abbey School together. Spicer waved to him and said, “Hey. Yeah. How are you?”

Lombard, a Newport native who now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then accused Spicer of calling him the N-word and trying to fight him when they were at school.

“You don’t remember that you tried to fight me?” Lombard asked. “But you called me a (N-word) first.”

A security guard approached Lombard and led him away as he kept talking: “I was 14 then. I was a scared kid then, Sean. I’m not scared to fight you now.”

The Providence Journal reported Saturday that Lombard said he was a member of Portsmouth Abbey’s class of 1990. It said Spicer was a member of the class of 1989.

Phone and email messages left by The Associated Press for the school were not immediately returned.

A Newport Daily News video of the encounter doesn’t show how Spicer, who was seated at a table signing books, reacted to being accused of using the racial slur. But his publicist said he was shocked by the allegation.

Spicer “can’t recall any incident like this happening” and was “not sure if this was just a stunt this man was pulling,” Regnery Publishing publicist Lauren McCue said.

She said Spicer has been in the news a lot the last couple of years and it was “a very odd time” for an accusation like this to be made.

Spicer has been promoting “The Briefing: Politics, the Press, and the President,” which just came out. The book paints a rosy if sometimes thorny picture of Trump, describing him as “a unicorn, riding a unicorn over a rainbow” and a man to whom the regular rules of politics don’t apply.

 

[SneakDZA]

I'm all about holding grudges for a reasonable amount of time but I think some little kid beef from 30 years ago might be past the expiration date.

If shit you said in a fight when you were 14 becomes the next Me Too I'm screwed.

 

[1/2]

I'm all about holding grudges for a reasonable amount of time but I think some little kid beef from 30 years ago might be past the expiration date.

If shit you said in a fight when you were 14 becomes the next Me Too I'm screwed.

funny but some people dont let go

I've ran into people I had fights with in middle school and they whole stance and mood changed lol.....like chill bruh u wanna get a drink and tell our kids about it?

everybody cant let go

there's people I told off years ago that I still wont fuck with, but im not runnin up on em lol

 

[Duwop]

lol.......yea... these things happen from time to time

 

[Chi-Town B]

lol.......yea... these things happen from time to time

Yea with you doing that to me. It's ok to let it go Du

 

[DOS_patos]

funny but some people dont let go

I've ran into people I had fights with in middle school and they whole stance and mood changed lol.....like chill bruh u wanna get a drink and tell our kids about it?

everybody cant let go

there's people I told off years ago that I still wont fuck with, but im not runnin up on em lol

I hold grudges
I don't really fuck with my family....I'm still mad