2026-10-16 · BBC News
🔮 Katie Zacharia was thrown into the whirlwind, joining the White House team as press secretary just weeks away from what polls suggest could be a difficult midterm congressional elections for President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.
In just five days, she was out – the result of a disastrous press conference that lasted all of 14 minutes, followed by a series of halting media appearances and questions about whether she had mischaracterised her legal credentials over the course of her career.
The axe dropped on Friday, with the news delivered – in a roundabout way - by Trump himself before the gathered media at the White House, as he recounted a conversation he had with Zacharia earlier in the day. assertive
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