周五，前共和党众议员乔治·桑托斯试图争取填补白宫新闻秘书凯蒂·扎卡里亚离任后留下的空缺。
Former Rep. George Santos (R-Fla.) pitched himself on Friday to fill the vacancy left by White House press secretary Katie Zacharia.
“虽然严格来说我目前还有工作在身，暂时无法接受新职位……不过，只要有机会，我绝对会毫不犹豫地出任总统的新闻秘书。”这位前共和党议员在社交平台上这样写道。周五下午，一位白宫官员宣布，在特朗普总统建议扎卡里亚“重新考虑”自己的职位后，她将“逐步卸任”。
“Hey I’m not technically open for a job because I have one already…. butttttttt… I’d jump to serve POTUS as press secretary in a heart beat. Just saying,” the former Republican lawmaker wrote on the social platform A White House official announced Friday afternoon that Zacharia was “transitioning out” of her role after President Trump told reporters he advised the press secretary to “reconsider” her position.
扎卡里亚仅任职五天便离任，创下了白宫新闻秘书任职时间最短的纪录。
Zacharia’s five days on the job set a new record for the shortest-serving White House press secretary.
她上任之初就饱受质疑：首次新闻发布会上显得极为紧张，仅回答了三位记者的提问；尽管并未通过律师资格考试，却在电视上自称是律师。
She faced scrutiny over a shaky initial press conference, where she appeared visibly nervous, took only three reporter questions and presented herself as a lawyer on TV despite not passing the bar exam.
周四，福克斯新闻主持人肖恩·汉尼提在采访中就扎卡里亚的法律背景对她进行了严厉质询。事后，桑托斯在社交媒体上怒斥汉尼提：“去你的，@seanhannity！你自以为高高在上、不可冒犯，还总喜欢以道德裁判者的姿态评判他人。”
Santos slammed Fox News host Sean Hannity after the anchor grilled Zacharia about her legal background during a Thursday interview. “F— you @seanhannity! You think you are untouchable and like to sit high on your horse and judged people,” he wrote on social media.
周五晚间，桑托斯又发长文继续抨击汉尼提，呼吁看过汉尼提节目的观众“取关”他的X账号。“我绝不愿与那些把肖恩·汉尼提这种自命清高之徒当作社会标准或衡量尺度的人为伍，”他写道。
The former lawmaker doubled down on his criticism of the Fox News host in a lengthy post on Friday evening, asking people who watched Hannity’s show to “unfollow” his X account. “I refuse to associate with people who think that the self-righteous pig known as Sean Hannity is the standard or barometer for anything in society,” Santos wrote.
这并非桑托斯首次与汉尼提发生冲突。去年秋天，桑托斯刚从联邦监狱获释，汉尼提便追问他是否会把骗取的数十万美元归还给受害者。桑托斯虽道了歉，却并未承诺归还这笔款项。
This is not the first time Santos has clashed with the Fox News host. Following his release from federal prison last fall, Hannity pressed the ex-congressman about whether he would repay the hundreds of thousands of dollars he stole to victims. Santos apologized but did not promise to pay back the amount.
桑托斯于 2023 年被逐出国会，并因多项电汇欺诈和严重身份盗用罪名被判有罪。在服刑三个月后，特朗普总统于去年 10 月减轻了他的刑罚。
Santos was expelled from Congress in 2023 and convicted on multiple counts of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. President Trump commuted his sentence last October after the ex-congressman had served three months in prison.
自离开国会以来，这位共和党人仍不断引发争议。今年 8 月，由于他未能配合针对自己在 Kalshi 预测平台上的投注行为的调查，他被该平台终身禁止使用其服务。
Since his departure from Congress, the Republican has continued to stir controversy. In August, he was issued a lifetime ban from the prediction market Kalshi after he failed to cooperate in an investigation into wagers he placed on the platform on this year’s State of the Union address.