‘Did anyone vet her?’: How Trump soured on Katie Zacharia as press secretary in just five days

CNN · Fox News, Fox News and Daily Caller report that Katie Zacharia is leaving her job as White House press secretary just days after taking it, following public remarks by President Donald Trump urging her to reconsider. The exit comes less than three weeks before the midterm elections, CNN notes.

A White House official told Fox News and the Daily Caller she is "transitioning out." Asked on the South Lawn whether he had fired her, Trump said no, according to Fox News. CNN, though, describes her as dismissed. The outlets also differ on timing: Fox News counts a week from her Oct. 9 naming, while the Daily Caller says five days, a record short tenure that edges past Anthony Scaramucci's eleven days in 2017.

Her 14-minute debut briefing took questions from only three outlets, per Fox News and the Daily Caller. Fox News says she conceded on Hannity that she never passed the bar exam; the Daily Caller, citing the Wall Street Journal, says she failed California's. CNN reports Trump, frustrated that few allies defended him after Karoline Leavitt left, hired her impulsively.

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