President Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, held an unusually short first briefing for the media Tuesday, concluding after less than 15 minutes and calling on just three reporters, all from conservative outlets.
\n\nZacharia spent more than half of that time reading remarks before she took questions from Breitbart, Fox News and the Daily Mail. It was one of the shortest White House press briefings in recent history.
\n\nIn response to the Daily Mail, she also revealed that the administration has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, to resign following allegations of misconduct.
\n\nZacharia spent most of her remarks touting Trump’s policies and framed her new position as a job to “amplify” him, which she said she’d done as a conservative commentator. She referred to those appearances, telling reporters that she hopes to “take that into an official capacity.”
\n\nNow, Zacharia said, she hopes to “only build on, only amplify and only multiply, to the extent possible, all of the wins” that Trump is “making for Americans, for Americans to understand how much has changed in this brief period of time, what he’s been able to accomplish.”
\n\n“My goal is to be able to communicate…
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