Trump privately called Zacharia 'talentless' before firing her after FIVE DAYS, as Susie Wiles is accused of laying TV trap to destroy her
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.
President Donald Trump privately told White House aides that Katie Zacharia was talentless and had no business appearing on television, then dismissed her to her face after she had been in the role for only five days. Trump told her she should "reconsider" staying, while communications director Steven Cheung had days earlier called her "whip smart" and dismissed critical reports as "trash." Zacharia's debut briefing ran just 14 minutes, she called on only three reporters, and her Fox News interviews — arranged by chief of staff Susie Wiles — proved fatal to her tenure rather than helping it. She has now broken Scaramucci's record as the shortest-serving aide in Trump's career.
Wiles is accused of engineering a Fox TV ambush that destroyed Zacharia, as rival factions reportedly feed damaging dirt on Wiles to Trump every hour.
Zacharia told Sean Hannity she had briefed with "very little prep time" — and wrongly insisted the Daily Mail is "not known to be a conservative outlet."
A DC ethics watchdog says Zacharia's exit does not "wipe clean" a California State Bar investigation into whether she misrepresented herself as a lawyer.
