Spicer had worked the team "into a frenzy," and it fell to Sims to write the script for his first statement to the media. Nervously chewing gum, Spicer dictated "a torrent of expletives with a few salient points scattered in between." At one point, Sims' computer crashed and he lost the draft, so it had to be rewritten. And in their rush to satisfy the impatient president, nobody checked the facts. Spicer, he writes, was "walking into his own execution."