White House’s Katie Zacharia sitting down for ‘interview with Wall Street Journal when fired by Trump’

President Donald Trump's newest press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was dismissed on Friday, only five days after taking the job. The Independent reports that she was being interviewed by The Wall Street Journal at her West Wing desk around 1pm when senior adviser Jason Miller came to the door and said Vice President JD Vance wanted a word. She never returned to the interview. Trump later told reporters at his helipad that he had asked whether the job was really for her, since she did not need it.

Her short tenure was troubled from the start. Her first briefing on Tuesday lasted 14 minutes, featured a script and three questions from friendly outlets, and included a slip in which she called her husband the president. Questions also arose over her legal credentials after Trump called her an attorney. She first said she had passed the bar exam while living in China, then admitted on Thursday that she had not, citing work in international transaction law there. Sean Hannity pressed her on the matter on Fox News.

Zacharia succeeded Karoline Leavitt. Her exit is the fastest of any Trump press aide, beating Anthony Scaramucci's 10 days.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Independent’s reporting. Read the full story at The Independent →