Sean Spicer, White House press secretary who became late-night laughing stock, promises new book will ‘set the record straight’

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer is releasing a book in the summer about what his publisher described as his “turbulent tenure” with the Trump administration.

The book, titled The Briefing, will be released on July 23, 2018, through Regnery Publishing, which bills itself as “the country’s leading publisher of conservative books.”

The book’s tagline promises it will shed “new light on the headline-grabbing controversies of the Trump administration’s first year”.

Spicer served as the White House press secretary for the Trump administration until July, when he resigned. During that time, he shared a contentious relationship with the press.

Spicer appeared on Fox News’s Hannity on Monday night, where he blasted the press for what he called a “mass amount of incorrect and malicious attacks on the president.”

The book, he told Sean Hannity, will “set the record straight”.

“I looked back at the coverage of the campaign, the transition and the first six, seven months of this White House, and realised the stories that are being told are not an accurate represent (sic) of what President Trump went through to get the nomination, to transition to the White House and then his first six months in office,” Spicer told Sean Hannity. “I’ve decided it’s incumbent upon me to set the record straight.”