
Sean Spicer (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
It’s an absolutely stunning hotel; I encourage you to go there if you haven’t been by.
—- Sean Spicer, new White House spokesman, in a press conference yesterday noting that then-President-elect Trump had dined at his Washington Hotel and shilling for the establishment. But lest you think pimping Trump ventures will become de rigueur, former ethics counsel to President Obama, Norm Eisen, notes the problems with the statement in a world where Donald Trump really is our President.

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.@seanspicer congrats on your new gig, fyi, a statement like this will be an ethics violation by you if u do it 26 hours from now @crewcrew https://t.co/uuusxHHGgD
— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) January 19, 2017