Former White House press secretary Katie Zacharia was spotted out and about in Los Angeles after her five-day tenure inside the administration came to a swift end.
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The 41-year-old was asked to resign on Friday following a shaky performance at the podium for her first press briefing and amid revelations that she never passed the bar exam despite describing herself as an attorney.
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On Monday, the mother-of-four was spotted out and about in Los Angeles, California, showing off her toned abs in a blue and red exercise outfit that bore a striking resemblance to the costumes worn by Superwoman and Superman.
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It was the first time she had been seen since Friday when she was dramatically axed from the position.
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Over the weekend, it was claimed that Zacharia was being interviewed by a Wall Street Journal reporter when she was pulled aside by a coworker.
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After excusing herself and telling the reporter she would be only a few minutes, she never returned.
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Moments later her new boss President Trump took questions from reporters on his new helipad when he said he had asked her to reconsider the role.
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'I said, "Is this for you Katie? Because honestly, you don't need this,"' Trump told reporters.
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When asked if he still had confidence in her, the president replied: 'I don't know.
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We'll see.
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I'm gonna let her make that decision.
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On Monday Katie Zachariah was spotted out and about in Los Angeles, California, showing off her toned abs in a blue and red exercise outfit
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It was the first time she had been since Friday when she was dramatically axed from the position
Katie Zachariah is seen in workout gear in Los Angeles on Tuesday, in her first public sighting since leaving the role of White House Press Secretary after just five days
It proved to be the death knell in what is now the shortest stint as a White House press secretary in US history.
Her tenure is shorter than Anthony Scaramucci’s famously brief 11 days as White House communications director in 2017 during Trump's first term in office.
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She previously only lasted six weeks as a communications adviser at Homeland Security earlier this year.
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Her rocky first and only briefing, which lasted just 14 minutes, was widely mocked online.
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The normally Trump-friendly hosts of Fox News were among those who questioned her performance, which was in marked contrast to that of her precedessor Karoline Leavitt, who resigned in August after a successful 18 months in the job.
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She stumbled over her prepared remarks and stuttered through her own sentences.
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At one point she called the president her husband.
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Her resume included six weeks at the Department of Homeland Security, appearances on conservative media, a role at Trump Media and a law career that came under scrutiny.
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When pressed on whether she passed the bar earlier this week, Zacharia responded that she did her exam in China – where she worked after graduating Pepperdine University Law School.
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That baffled reporters since the test isn't offered there, and US citizens typically cannot take Chinese legal exams.
She later cleared up that she never passed the bar exam since it wasn't necessary for her job in China, where the US qualification would not have carried water.
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Zacharia is seen here during her first and only press briefing last week
Her rocky first and only briefing, which lasted just 14 minutes, was widely mocked online, and even Fox News hosts questioned her performance
Former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt she stepped down from the role in late August
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In a tense interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night, she acknowledged that she failed the California bar exam in 2011, never retook it and considered the results inconsequential.
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As the segment ended, she promised Hannity she would be very prepared going forward and would step up to the duty the President had given her.
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In an interview on Friday morning with Fox News about her 'tough week,' Zacharia was pressed unusually hard by the hosts once again about why she's described herself as an attorney in the past.
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'It's not an easy job to be the press secretary, and you never want to be the story,' Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones said.
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'But I have to ask, do you wish you would have disclosed to the president about the bar and not passing the bar?'
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'Well, Lawrence, those questions weren't asked,' Zacharia shot back.
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'I'm being hired as White House press secretary and not White House counsel.
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The conversations and the reason I was hired was to represent the President in the press.'
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The President made the decision to hire Zacharia during a 72-hour period last week without consulting his chief of staff Susie Wiles, The Daily Mail previously reported.
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