OPINION: Sean Spicer’s humble apology a sign of good governance

Sean Spicer,White House,Politics

Posted on AllSides April 13, 2017

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The left is going batty over Sean Spicer’s Hitler mishap, mocking and scoffing the White House press secretary for mistakenly stating the former Nazi leader “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons” against citizens or using “gas on his own people” the way Syria’s President Bashar Assad did.

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