Susie Wiles set up 'sanctioned hit' Fox interview to destroy Katie Zacharia after just five days as press secretary
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 engineered Katie Zacharia's removal by setting up the Fox News interview with Sean Hannity that fatally undermined her. Zacharia, 41, had reportedly been chosen by Trump from Trump Media without Wiles' input, and a senior official reportedly said that 'Susie gave Fox News the kill order.' Zacharia reportedly found out she was finished when senior adviser Jason Miller broke into her Wall Street Journal interview to pull her away for a meeting with the vice president — and she never came back to her desk.
Trump reportedly told staffers privately that Zacharia 'had no talent and shouldn't be on television,' even as he publicly called her first briefing 'excellent.'
Zacharia's five-day tenure shatters Anthony Scaramucci's notorious record of 11 days, which political obsessives had elevated into a unit of time in its own right.
In her first public remarks after being ousted, Zacharia posted on Instagram: 'It was an honor to work for him.'
