Susie Wiles orchestrated 'sanctioned hit' on Katie Zacharia by setting up the Fox News interview that ended her five-day tenure
Laughter erupts in the briefing room as Katie Zacharia cuts short her debut White House press conference after accepting just three pre-selected questions in 14 minutes.Three bikini photographs deleted from Katie Zacharia's Instagram account — she had previously condemned women who wear "bikini-style gym attire" as crossing a line.
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles reportedly helped arrange Katie Zacharia's disastrous Fox News appearance with Sean Hannity, which has been described as a 'sanctioned hit' on a press secretary who was reportedly never Wiles' preferred pick. Zacharia was reportedly mid-interview with the Wall Street Journal when senior adviser Jason Miller appeared at her West Wing door saying 'JD wanted to chat' — and she never returned to her desk. Trump reportedly privately told aides she 'had no talent and shouldn't be on television', leaving her with almost no allies willing to defend her inside the West Wing.
Zacharia's record-breaking five-day tenure beats Anthony Scaramucci's famous 11 days as the shortest White House stint in history.
Her debut 14-minute briefing — in which she called on just three reporters and failed to answer a question on Ukraine intelligence — sealed her fate within minutes of leaving the podium.
Zacharia broke her silence Friday night, writing on Instagram that Trump is 'a kind, wonderful, gracious, thoughtful, enthusiastic' man and that 'it was an honor to work for him.'
