Sean Spicer was never a true Trump believer, a new book suggests, revealing the now ex-White House press secretary was shopping for TV jobs even before the 2016 election.
The tome, ‘Let Trump Be Trump,’ was written by the president’s first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and his deputy campaign manager, David Bossie, who dub the election of President Trump the ‘greatest political event in the history of our republic.’
In the first chapter, they lay out who they consider Trump’s friends and foes, characterizing Spicer and other Trump team members who came from the Republican National Committee, including Reince Priebus and Katie Walsh, as the latter.
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was reportedly looking for television work before the 2016 election, predicting President Trump’s loss
The Spicer anecdote was found in the pages of a new book by President Trump’s first Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski (left) and his Deputy Campaign Manager David Bossie (right)
The book’s first chapter suggests there was a divide between Trump campaign staffers and those who joined from the Republican National Committee, chaired by Reince Priebus, who later became Trump’s first chief of staff. Priebus resigned in July
The book begins on election day, starting early – when Trump’s prospects looked bleak – to after 3 a.m., when the president-elect was delivering his victory speech.
Lewandowski and Bossie suggested, however, that Spicer and others considered the vote a bygone conclusion.
Authors Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie say that President Trump’s election was the ”greatest political event in the history of our republic’
‘The truth was, some on the campaign were already jumping ship,’ the duo wrote, pointing a finger toward Spicer.
Spicer, working as the chief strategist for the RNC at the time, along with being a Trump campaign adviser, had called a meeting at RNC headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he and his team gave election predictions to ‘tier-one network reporters,’ Bossie and Lewandowski wrote.
The authors noted that the information was ‘strictly on background and under embargo,’ which meant the source’s name, only a description, couldn’t be attached and that journalists couldn’t report it until a certain date.
‘In that meeting, the Republican data team said that Donald Trump would get no more than 204 electoral votes, and that he had little chance of winning any of the battleground states, and that even dead-red Georgia was a toss-up,’ Lewandowski and Bossie said.
Trump won the election with 304 electoral votes – 100 more than predicted – and flipped the battleground states of Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin, compared to the Obama-Romney map four years before.
The Republican won Georgia as well, but only by 5.1 points, a smaller percentage than in 2012, when GOP nominee Mitt Romney won the state.
‘On the record, Spicer and the RNC’s chief of staff, Katie Walsh, did several network and newspaper briefings just before the election in which they downplayed the race at the top of the ticket and instead talked about the importance of down-ballot races and the improvement in the RNC’s ground game,’ Bossie and Lewandowski continued.
On election night, for instance, Spicer was asked by PBS NewsHour’s Hari Sreenivasan if the RNC did everything possible to put Trump in a good position.
‘I don’t think there is a speck of dirt left on the field, but not just for the candidate,’ Spicer said, and then pivoted. ‘But for the Senate, for our House members, for our governors, for down-ballot, all the way down to dogcatcher.’
Bossie and Lewandowski then charged Spicer with job hunting before the votes were cast.
‘But Spicer was so convinced of a Trump loss that he was actively petitioning networks for a job the week before the election,’ they wrote.
‘Because of these actions, Mr. Trump never fully trusted the RNC team,’ Lewandowski and Bossie said.
The two campaign officials said that in the coming months a ‘lack of loyalty would split the new administration in two.’
‘The actions of Spicer and other RNC staff helped widen that divide,’ the authors charged.
Spicer, Priebus and Walsh were all gone by July, with Spicer and Priebus leaving a week apart from each other in the summer month, and Walsh leaving even earlier, in March.
Spicer has yet to return a request for comment from DailyMail.com.