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WSJ exposes the incredibly awkward moment Trump's press secretary found out she was fired

Katie Zacharia was in the middle of an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Friday when a knock at her West Wing door effectively ended her five days as White House press secretary, the paper reported . She was behind her new desk, in an office with few personal touches, when senior adviser Jason Miller stuck his head in. “JD wanted to chat with us…

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Raw Story· Oct 17, 1:46 AMWSJ exposes the incredibly awkward moment Trump's press secretary found out she was fired

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Katie Zacharia offered White House press secretary postZacharia would fill a role vacated by Trump ally Karoline Leavitt, who left the administration earlier this year after the birth of her second child.

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Trump's new press secretary out of the job just days after rocky debutKatie Zacharia has been fired as White House Press Secretary.

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How to lose a job in five daysThis story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia is out of a job after only five days. What happened? Zacharia was fired on Friday after less than […]

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5 days of Katie Zacharia: The rapid fall of Trump's 'lawyer' press secretaryKatie Zacharia won’t be remembered as one of the “all-time greats” in the White House press room, as one of her colleagues predicted this week, but she will go down in the annals of presidential press secretary history. Her tenure of five days in the role easily beats the previous record held by Anthony Scaramucci,...

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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…

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Katie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Ousted After 5 DaysHer abrupt departure came after she was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.

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Zacharia speaks out after White House press secretary exit: 'It was an honor'Katie Zacharia issued her first public statement Friday night after a White House official announced she'd be "transitioning out" of the press secretary post after just five days in the role. In a post on the social media platform X, Zacharia praised President Trump’s leadership, saying, “It was an honor to work for him.” “President...

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Katie Zacharia holds awkward debut briefing as Trump's press secretary - videoNew White House press secretary Katie Zacharia faced reporters for the first time on Tuesday, delivering a brief 14-minute briefing and taking questions from just three media outlets. In her opening remarks, she praised Donald Trump’s energy policies, saying he had restored US 'energy dominance', and credited his tariffs with stopping China from…

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