Donald Trump dismissed White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia on Friday, Oct. 16, less than a week after her appointment. Her five-day tenure was marked by controversy over her failure to pass the bar exam, an awkward debut briefing and remarks about China.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump dismissed White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia on Friday, Oct. 16, just five days after she took office, following a series of public controversies involving her legal credentials, a widely criticized press briefing and remarks about China that drew a response from Beijing.<\/p>\n
A White House official confirmed her departure to AFP after Fox News reported that the 41-year-old spokeswoman was \u201ctransitioning out\u201d of the position, bringing an abrupt end to what is believed to be the shortest tenure of any White House press secretary in US history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump dismissed White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia on Friday, Oct. 16, less than a week after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-885046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}