Exactly one week after he announced he was hiring conservative TV commentator Katie Zacharia as his next White House press secretary, President Donald Trump has fired her after a dismal performance at her first briefing was followed by days of questions over whether she’d lied about being licensed to practice law.
A White House official confirmed that Zacharia had been canned just moments after Trump departed the White House for a rally in Georgia on the way to a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.