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_Published 2018-01-04. Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday that he “screwed up” during his time serving in the Trump administration._


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## Transcript

There were times where I screwed up. There's no question about it. I've said this before. I mean, the inauguration, you brought it up. I would say that's first and foremost. There was an event where I was trying to talk about how evil Assad was and I screwed that up royally. Thank you for reminding me. But those are days when I went back and, look, I'm a very self critical person. Yeah. And I sat back and said, you know, it's not my credibility. I honestly went out every day to do the best job I could for the president of the United States. You gave me an unbelievable honor. And to basically do the best job I could for the American people, cuz that's ultimately who you serve.

And so when I screwed up, yeah it felt really bad. Because you're realizing that you're tarnishing your personal reputation, your families reputation, your friends who like you and support you, some of your colleagues. And ultimately again, this administration and the American people, who I wanted to do my best job, my best for every single day.

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