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Trump Fires His Fake Lawyer Press Secretary After Just Five Days

Katie Zacharia has been fired as White House press secretary after less than one week on the job, The New York Times reported Friday, citing three anonymous sources. She hosted one 14-minute press briefing, took 3 questions, and will go down in history as the press secretary with the shortest tenure to date. Fox News also reported that Zacharia would be…

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Trump 'Picked an Incompetent Individual to Do the Job': Katie Zacharia Out After Less Than a WeekThe tumultuous tenure of White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has already come to an end just three days after her first press briefing . After his new hire shambled her way through yet another Fox News appearance the night before, President Donald Trump said on Friday that he'd suggested Zacharia "reconsider" her role as the top White House…
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Katie Zacharia’s five days as press secretary expose flaws in Trump’s TV-driven hiringThe president reportedly chose Zacharia after seeing her on television, but her first press briefing and disastrous interviews sealed her fate And so Katie Zacharia joins the mayfly ranks of Liz Truss, Anthony Scaramucci , New Coke, CNN+ and Quibi. To say she burned twice as bright and half as long would be too kind. She went out like a firework on a…
The Guardian11h agoWhole story →
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