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Trump tells new press secretary to 'reconsider' job after disastrous debut

President Donald Trump made the startling admission Friday that he told his newly appointed White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, to reconsider her job following her rocky debut as the president’s spokesperson. “Katie is off to a start that the news has been so nasty, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Trump told reporters Friday at the White…

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