His departure would be due to the appointment of a new communications director. His assistant, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, will replace him.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer handed over his resignation to the US president on Friday (July 21st). His deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sander, is appointed a new spokesman.
According to the New York Times, Spicer made this decision due to a strong disagreement with the appointment by Donald Trump of a new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci. The US president appointed the head of a 53-year-old investment company to head the White House communication, replacing Michael Dubke, who himself resigned in May after only three months.
Anthony Scaramucci is expected to take office in August, according to government sources. Founder of Skybridge Capital, he had already been offered the post of US Ambassador to the OECD in Paris.
Mr. Spicer, for his part, is a well-known figure in the Trump administration, since he has been in charge of press conferences almost daily for six months. As a result of the controversy and the twists and turns of the investigation into possible complicities between members of Mr. Trump's campaign team and Russia, the exercise had become perilous for the spokesman, who was often taken by surprise by The president's about-face.
On the spot for several weeks
He had been involved for weeks, a victim of his boss's criticism of the disorder in the communication of the executive, to which the president himself is accused of contributing with his tweets and interviews. Mr. Spicer had been out of the field lately and rarely appeared at the White House briefing, often replaced by Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The resignation comes at the end of a hectic new week for the Republican leader, openly annoyed by the prosecution's probe Robert Mueller's investigation into a possible collusion between Russia and his campaign last year. In addition to the communications team's upset, Donald Trump has redesigned his team of personal lawyers, who represent his interests against Robert Mueller. One of them resigned.
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