US President Donald Trump and Katie Zacharia.
\n\nKatie Zacharia, President Trump’s new White House press secretary, has lost her job after less than a week. Her short run included one rocky press briefing and a growing debate over whether she had overstated her legal credentials.
\n\nZacharia was fired on Friday, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke to The New York Times. Neither the White House nor Zacharia answered requests for comment.
\n\nTrump did address it with reporters that day. He said he had urged her to rethink the role, and he described the conversation as he told it. “Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider,” he said he told her. He then recalled asking her, “Katie, do you need this? I don’t think you need this.”
\n\n"I want her to have a good life, I don't want her to have a live like she's led in the last three days. I don't think Katie should be made to suffer like she's suffered at the hands of the press," Trump said.
\n\nSoon after, headlines began asking whether she had misrepresented herself as a lawyer. Trump himself had called her “an attorney” when he announced her appointment, even…
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