The White House attracts all manner of toadies, suck-ups and flatterers seeking the president”s favor, but never did any staffer demean, degrade and humble himself to the chief executive the way outgoing press secretary Sean Spicer did. Abandoning the arts of both persuasion and elision that have served previous prevaricating press secretaries so well, Spicer flung barbed-tongue lies in service of President Donald Trump.Starting with Trump’s inauguration weekend, when Spicer declared “was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period,” through last week, when he lied that Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian meeting was about “adoptions,” Spice never failed to fib when a fib would serve the president.