Spicer had other issues. He suffered nonstop abuse and incredulity from much of the press corps. In a job where every little slipup was accentuated, Spicer slipped up regularly. At one point, he claimed that Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons” (fact check: extremely wrong). His job appraisals were across-the-board brutal. “There’s something about Sean Spicer that inspires pity,” the Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan wrote, and then proceeded to eviscerate him without pity.
