Katie Zacharia was forced out as White House press secretary on Friday after five days on the job. Zacharia had just started on Monday and had not even moved to Washington yet.
One source in a Politico story called the interviews a “sanctioned hit. That suggested White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles planned them, as she did not approve the hiring in advance.
Trump was walking across the South Lawn to leave for a midterm rally in Georgia when he stopped to talk to reporters, according to the NYT . He told them he had asked his press secretary to “reconsider” her job. “I’d like to do news hits morning and evening,” Zacharia wrote on Wednesday to a White House official. The Post said the bookings were pushed back by a day. The texts show she was looking for TV time as early as Tuesday, the day of her first briefing, according to The Post. A Hannity producer wrote that day, “Katie said she can join us from the rally tonight. But The Post said the texts do not show Wiles had any role in the TV appearances. Former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox on Saturday, as per The Post: “That was pretty much doomed from the start to roll out to the press.”
On Friday, host Lawrence Jones asked her, “Do you wish you would have disclosed to the president about the bar and not passing the bar?
