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Alex Lombard says that he remembers in detail when he was a new student at Portsmouth Abbey School and Sean Spicer, later to become the press secretary of the White House, called him by the n-word racially insulting and has been thrown at him. Spicer vigorously rejects this claim and threatens to sue for reporting anything on it. Two classmates and a teacher who were at school at the time told The Daily News that the incident had never happened or that they were not there. did not remember it. Another student who knew Lombard corroborated his story.
"Mr. Lombard falsely accused Sean Spicer of shouting a racial insult and attempting to attack him after Chapel in front of the student body and the school teachers," said Dr. 39; attorney Michael J. Bowe, of Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP law firm, New York, New York, in a written statement Bowe represents Spicer in this case
"The publication of such an assertion manifestly false and defamatory of such an untrustworthy source This is a shameful departure from the heavy responsibilities associated with a free press, "she adds.
Lombard, whose mother, Judith Lombard, owned and operated the former Island Canvas store at the brick market, grew up on Gibbs Avenue in Newport. He said that he is a graduate of St. Michael's School, spent his first year at Rogers High School, and then transferred to the Abbey in September 1987.
This was At the beginning of his second school year, after the mid-twentieth when Spicer spotted him, Lombard said Sunday afternoon that The Newport Daily News had contacted him by phone.
"He said," What is it that [racial epithet] do here? Says Lombard,
"I stopped dead in my tracks," said Lombard. "It was so red in the face, there was so much anger, I was frozen, I did not want to fight it."
Lombard said another student, John Farley, approached Spicer before Spicer reaches it. However, Farley said Sunday that this has never happened.
Lombard stated that he never thought to report the incident to the school administration.
"No one at the Abbey has ever felt racially inferior." I've never been called the word N save once. "
On Friday night, Lombard confronted Spicer at a signing session at the Barnes & Noble store in Middletown, Spicer was promoting his new book, "The Briefing: Politics, the Press and the President", building on the six months that He passed as Donald Trump's press secretary early 2017.
"You do not remember," Lombard asked Spicer "But you did call me first [n-word].
The Newport Daily News took a live video of Lombard's comments on Spicer, which caught the attention of the world.
Spicer "I do not remember an incident like this" and I did not know if it was just a shot that this man was shooting, "said Lauren McCue, a Regnery Publishing journalist , quoted by the Associated Press
. She told The Associated Press: "It really happened," said Marc Leandro, who was in the 1989 class with Spicer. He was introduced publicly over the weekend when he saw media reports that Spicer did not know Lombard.
Leandro, who grew up in Newport, said he had gone to St. Michael's School with Lombard and that he had known him for years.
He said that Lombard and Spicer were day students, the students all knew each other well. different from that of the students who boarded the dormitories, he said.
"All the students of the day were squeezed and knew each other, "Leandro said. "Any claim that we do not know each other is absurd."
Lombard said that after Spicer had mistreated him, he had avoided Spicer and they had no classes in common.
"I saw Alex right after," Leandro said, "He was very upset, I suggested he go to the administration but he did not want to, he said: "No, I do not want to do much. "
Bowe, Spicer's lawyer, denied Lombard's account and questioned his credibility."
"The person with whom he claims he was walking at the time, and the person whom he claims to have withheld Mr. Spicer, categorically denies that such an incident occurred. Mr. Lombard is a convicted drug criminal, who told a reporter that he thought he was talking to Mr. Spicer on the phone [Saturday] night – another illusion, "Bowe wrote. [19659002] After an initial interview with Lombard, The Ne Daily News newspaper recalled him and asked him about the conviction on a drug charge in Georgia that Bowe spoke about.
"J & I have encountered problems in Georgia, "said Lombard
Lombard in the Class of 1990 and he is pictured on page 145 of the Portsmouth Abbey School Yearbook for this class.Spicer and Leandro have pages devoted to them in the 1989 yearbook. A Newport Daily News reporter read the directories on Sunday
Lombard stated that the alleged incident at the abbey was "purulent" with him for years and he tried to contact Spicer by email and social media ux to ask apologies after Spicer Leandro says, "Alex spoke after the inauguration to tell me how much he was troubled," says Leandro.
Lombard says that the incident occurred on a path leading to a dormitory when Spicer accused him and
He told his classmate named Peter Healy for confirmation but "he does not want to get involved."
"I knew Sean Spicer and Alex Lombard during my stay at Portsmouth Abbey, and" Healy told the Daily News on Sunday
Healy, a 1990-grade member, and Spicer were neighbors in Barrington and they shuttled to go to school together for a few hours a year. "There is no way that it has happened," said Farley, the student Lombard allegedly attacked Spicer
Farley said that after the services of the chapel, several students and staff would have been in the immediate area.
"It's a small school," said Farley. "Nobody "would never have continued like this because you would be expelled."
If he had attacked a classmate like Spicer on a paved path, he would remember it, says Farley. [19659002CliffHobbinstaughttopicsincludinghistoryeconomicsandforeignpolicyattheAbbeyofPortsmouthsince1976andwasamasterofthehousewhentheallegedincidentoccurredHesaidthathomeownersfromPortsmouthAbbeymetregularlyandthattherewasneveranyindicationofsuchadisturbance
"Something like that would have spread like wildfire among students," says Hobbins. "We have very strict disciplinary policies regarding something like that – Sean Spicer would have been expelled if something like that had happened
" I'm not saying that it never happened, but I did not know anything about it, "said Hobbins
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