Katie Zacharia Lasted Exactly One Press Briefing at the White House
Speedrunning high-level political exits: one chaotic briefing, a bizarre bar license mystery, and a very polite push toward the door from Trump.
She stepped up to the most famous podium in the world on Tuesday, called on only three friendly media outlets, dropped several instantly disputed claims, and by Friday she was basically out the door.
Donald Trump insisted he didn't technically fire her. Instead, he told reporters he just gently asked her: "Katie, do you need this? I don't think you need this. I want her to have a good life." It might just be the most passive-aggressive pink slip in presidential history.
To make the week even wilder, a government watchdog group immediately filed an ethics complaint in California. She managed to trigger a state bar investigation and leave the West Wing in under four days after claiming she passed the California bar exam "when I moved to China"—despite having no actual license to practice law there.
Passing the California bar from halfway across the world sounded ambitious enough, but surviving a week in the briefing room proved even harder.
Source: CNN
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