NEWS HEADLINES: Glenn Beck Reveals The GENIUS Way Sean Spicer Gave President Trump CARTE BLANCH To Fire Federal Employees * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

Glenn Beck: My friend Sean Spicer, how are you, sir?

Sean Spicer: I’m fantastic.

Glenn Beck: How are you?

Sean Spicer: I’m so good, I’m so good.

Glenn Beck: I don’t want you to tell the end of the story yet—I want you to start at the beginning. What happened when you left the White House and Biden took over as president?

Sean Spicer: I’ll take you back one step further.

Sean Spicer: OK, so I stepped down as White House press secretary, and the president has always been kind and offered to appoint me to a couple of boards. He appointed me to two of them—one of them was the White House Commission on Fellows, where I was a commissioner, and then he also was kind enough to make me one of his appointees to the Board of Visitors to the U.S. Naval Academy.

Sean Spicer: So I was sworn into office. Joe Biden comes into office—and so on. January 28, myself and all of the White House commissioners at that fellowship committee resigned because it’s a White House commission and the new president has a right to have people for White House commissions.

Glenn Beck: Fair enough.

Sean Spicer: Well, on September first I get an email in 2021 that says, “Dear Mr. Spicer, thank you for your service on the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors. By 6 o’clock tonight, please submit your resignation or you will be fired.” And I thought, “Whoa, what?”

Sean Spicer: Now, just for context, remember, Glenn—on September first, my term ended November first. Sixty days later I was like, “You couldn’t wait 60 days just to have it for free.” So I was like, “I’ve been sworn into office. My term was, you know, ended at that time.” And I obviously wasn’t going to get reappointed—Biden had his right to appoint his people.

Sean Spicer: Great, so it turns out that he fired everybody—myself from the Naval Academy Board, Russ Vogt from the Naval Academy Board, and then a guy named H.R. McMaster from the West Point Board. By the way, H.R. McMaster—you remember, was the National Security Advisor to Trump, a three-star Army general who was a graduate of West Point and a distinguished professor there.

Sean Spicer: And the Friday after that, the Tuesday email was going to be honored at West Point as a distinguished alumni in their awards ceremony. So anyway, he fires us on September first. I don’t resign—I said, “If you’re not resigning, you can fire me if you want.”

Sean Spicer: And then Stephen Miller in America First came to me and said, “We have an idea.” I said, “OK, what’s the idea?” He goes, “We want to sue Biden.” Now, Glenn, I’m not a lawyer—I said, “Guys, I watch a lot, a lot, a lot of Law & Order.”

Sean Spicer: But how in God’s earth—if we sue the guy in September (I mean, my term ends November first)—we’re never going to get back on the board. And they said, “No, no, no. Let’s go to court and make Joe Biden argue that he has the absolute authority to fire anybody.” And because we’re not going to win the case, they’ll rule against us.

Sean Spicer: And I was like, “Oh, this is brilliant—the only people.” But here’s the kicker: the only people who were willing to put their name on that lawsuit are myself and Russ Vogt. Of all the other people that were so honored that President Trump had appointed them, they went to everyone and said, “Hey, will you sign on to this?” And they said, “Thanks, we’re busy.” Russ votes.

Sean Spicer: So the case became Spicer et al. v. Biden. It goes up to the court; the court says the president has the absolute authority to fire anyone. Then we appeal the decision—it goes to the appeals level, and the court again reaffirms the decision that Joe Biden, and the president of the United States, have the absolute authority to fire anyone.

Glenn Beck: And then the media started calling you, Glenn, saying, “You lost the case.”

Sean Spicer: And I said at the time, did I…

Sean Spicer: So Donald Trump gets elected—and this is where it gets really fun. You’ll love this. And now you know the rest of the story. Here he comes: “Thank you, Paul Harvey.”

Sean Spicer: So I write this story in an op-ed for the New York Post saying, “Hey, guess what? Spicer v. Biden has given President Trump the authority to fire anyone he wants. I hope that President Trump executes it.” And the White House is tweeting it, sending me messages back, “Guess who we just fired? Guess who we just fired?” And I’m living in this glory.

Sean Spicer: Well, I write this piece for the New York Post explaining, “Hey, here’s what we did. Here’s the legal basis. All of these people who are about to get fired by Trump should thank—President Biden for this.” Now here’s where it gets fun.

Sean Spicer: The New York Post in the editing process says to me, “OK, well, was it just the service academies?” And I said, “No, they had the right to fire anyone.” And they said, “Well, give us some examples.” So I’ve got the list of boards and commissions that the president can appoint to—there are like a couple hundred or two.

Sean Spicer: And I start reading, and one of the editors said, “Well, they could fire—you know, there’s the Battlefield Commission, there’s the Truman Scholarship, there’s the Kennedy Center.” She goes, “Oh, put that in the op-ed. Put that—people will identify with that,” and we went—we added a couple of other examples to the op-ed. So the op-ed gets published in the New York Post and it gets a lot of coverage, whatever, and President Trump continues to fire people.

Sean Spicer: And when they fire the board of the Kennedy Center, The Washington Post calls—you know, the spokesman for the Kennedy Center—and he says, “Are you going to be opposing President Trump firing you?” And on the record, the spokesman for the Kennedy Center says, “We can’t; Spicer v. Biden sets the precedent for this, gives the president the authority to do this.”

Glenn Beck: So now, here’s the kicker: The Washington Post called you and said, “What do you think about what the Kennedy Center is saying?”

Sean Spicer: Now, I have a hard enough time keeping up with President Trump—I don’t focus on what the Kennedy Center is saying, I’m sorry. That’s really not my thing. So I said, “I don’t know.” And they go, “Are you serious? You don’t know? They just cited your case as the reason that they can’t oppose or object to what President Trump just did.” And I said, “Oh my God, that’s amazing. I’m glad to have played a small part in it.”

Sean Spicer: A day later, the reporter calls me back and says, “I went and read all of the court documents—and you’re right.” And I said, “Of course—what do you mean? Yeah, I wasn’t lying to you.” And he said, “I’ve got to write this big story.” And I said to my team at the time—my family—I was like, “Oh my God, this is not going to go well.”

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Sean Spicer: The Washington Post wants to write a story about Spicer v. Biden and why it’s given the president the authority to—then I get a text and it says, “Hey, we’re running—we’re putting the story up.” And I go, “Oh, like these—don’t these things not end well for people like me and people like you? It’s like—you don’t get that. It’s like getting a call from the IRS. It doesn’t go well when they go, ‘Hey, I’m from The Washington Post and I’m writing a story about Glenn Beck.’”

Sean Spicer: Yeah. Thank you. So I click on the story and I’m reading, and I’m like, “OK, OK, OK—like when’s the bad part coming?” And the only part is—I normally, you know, there’s that phrase, Glenn, where people say that they hate-watch MSNBC or something—yeah, yeah—and I hate, I hate reading the comments. I had to do it; I had to do it.

Sean Spicer: I normally will not read the comments—I don’t read the Twitter replies or whatever—but I read the comments, and these snowflakes—they’re so offended. They’re like, “Sean Spicer’s an evil person pursuing the president.” I’m like, “Wait a second. You have to understand the context. Never in the history of the United States had any president ever removed somebody from a service academy board prior to their term being done for anything less than malfeasance—and even that, we can’t find an example.”

Sean Spicer: Never. Joe Biden was so petty. And the point is, they’re mad at me. The comments—there are like thousands of comments when you click on The Washington Post story, and I posted it on all my social media stories if someone wants to go read it. And I was like, “Wait a second—you’re mad at me?” They’re like, “I can’t believe you did this.” And I’m like, “Wait, wait, wait—I did nothing. I literally had 60 days to go. I’m sure I would have gotten some little, you know, medallion from the Naval Academy. So thanks for your service. Be on your way.”

Sean Spicer: And yet here they are—like all these snowflakes putting comments in The Washington Post that say I’m the bad guy. Because why? Because I stood up and said, “Hey, you want to argue that you have to do this, then give a future Republican president…” Now, at the time, Russ Vogt and I had no idea that President Trump hadn’t even declared for reelection yet, but we thought to ourselves, “Hey, you know what? We’ll stand up now.” Like I said, I watch a lot of Law & Order, but that’s my legal prowess here.

Sean Spicer: So the idea that this case—which we thought at the time, “Hey, let’s try it”—has now become the basis for which President Trump can run around and say, “You’re fired!” is, legit, amazing. And I’m just—I’m like, “It.” The Post wrote in the story that I was giddy—I think that’s an understatement. I am so ecstatic that not just that President Trump can execute on this strategy, but that it was Joe Biden who set the president and gave us this gift is such sweet poetic justice.

Sean Spicer: You know, whenever anybody tries to force their way, it never ends well—never ends well. But think about this: they tried to de-platform Trump, they censored him, they took him off the ballot, they sued him civilly and criminally—and it just, it backfired, backfired, backfired. Learn your lesson, folks.

Sean Spicer: I just get such a kick out of this because these dum-dums keep thinking if we just go after him one more time, it’ll work—and it doesn’t. So what is the strategy now? Do you think they have— I mean, because none of this is working—I hope that it’s continued. I just love the fact that they keep—they double down on stupid, and they’re like, “What if we just try it one more time?” And I’m like, “God bless you.”

Sean Spicer: But the idea is just, at some point you take the loss and just say, “Let’s regroup. Let’s retreat. He’s not running again. Maybe we stop making it about him and we think about what we’re for.” I don’t tend to give a ton of advice to the Democratic Party, but at some point recognize that for ten years you’ve tried to say that Donald Trump’s the problem and we’re going to come up against him—and it hasn’t worked. So maybe, just maybe, you try to rethink this whole strategy. Look, I don’t really care—that’s their problem, not mine.

Sean Spicer: I performed at the Kennedy Center 10, 12, 15 years ago, and it almost took an act of Congress to make that happen. I mean, you can rent out the Kennedy Center and do whatever you want on there. Well, they had a problem with me, and they told me at the time—I was the first show ever done at the Kennedy Center that displayed the American flag on stage. I found that incredible. But I don’t care what happens at the Kennedy Center—it doesn’t matter to me.

Sean Spicer: But the left is freaking out—they’re just freaking out. See, here’s the thing: there’s a bigger arc that I think is taking place. In the first term, we were somewhat apologetic—we were like, “Yeah, you know, remember that, just think about this, and remember the Kennedy Center is just one thing.” So President Trump can keep firing everybody, but when we came into office, the Kennedy Center Honors—right, which is supposed to be this annual thing where all these leftists get awards and celebrate each other—they said, “We won’t come if Trump shows up.” And so Trump was actually magnanimous and said, “You know what? You guys go on, have your event—I won’t go.”

Sean Spicer: And I think that there was a lot of feeling around and trying to understand the trappings. And like I said, it was just—it was just new. What do we do? How do we approach this? This term he says, “Screw it. You’re all fired. I’m taking over the board. I’m in charge. I’m putting my people.” And I love it—this idea that we have learned that. And this is what I mean about the arc: don’t be afraid, don’t be apologetic. Fight—go out there. Why are we ceding ground at the Kennedy Center?

Sean Spicer: Why isn’t it that Glenn Beck is the only person that puts an American flag on it? Why aren’t we saying, “You know what? Let’s bring in more people who do that. Let’s be proud. Let’s be patriotic. Let’s use this institution to celebrate America?” But I don’t understand—the mentality is so different now. It’s, “Let’s fight. Let’s do this. Let’s use this.” And I love it—I think it’s absolutely fantastic. I thank you for what you did.

Sean Spicer: And the only thing that would make it better is if you or I were on the board of the Kennedy Center and we could announce that Lee Greenwood’s residency was now taking place at the Kennedy Center. I think you, like, just so you know now—that’s definitely not going to be the last time that we hear that. You can take credit for it, but I have a feeling we may be meeting the residency of several other country artists that come and play there. It would be fantastic. Thank you so much—I appreciate it, Sean Spicer.