Katie Zacharia is out as White House press secretary after just five days on the job, a senior administration official, an administration official and a source familiar with the decision said.
\n\nThe news follows Zacharia’s widely panned first press briefing and the revelation that she represented herself as a lawyer but did not pass her bar exam.
\n\nEarlier Friday, President Donald Trump said he would let Zacharia decide whether to remain as his press secretary after he suggested she was treated harshly by the media during her first week on the job.
\n\n“She’s been treated, I would say pretty nastily, and I said to Katie just two minutes ago, I said, Katie, you know, you don’t have to do this if you don’t want,” Trump said.
\n\nAsked if he would keep her on the job, the president said, “I’m going to let her make that decision.”
\n\nTrump also said that if he were in her shoes, he’d “reconsider” and said he would be having a conversation with her later about her situation.
\n\nZacharia is scheduled to have dinner Friday with Vice President JD Vance and his family at his residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., two sources familiar…
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