凯蒂·扎卡里亚因上任仅五天就被迫辞去白宫新闻秘书一职。扎卡里亚刚在周一开始工作，甚至还未搬到华盛顿。据《纽约时报》报道，特朗普正穿越南草坪前往佐治亚州参加中期选举集会时，他停下来接受记者采访。他告诉记者，他曾让新闻秘书“重新考虑”她的工作。“老实说，如果我是你，我也会重新考虑，”他对记者说，复述了他与她的谈话。
Katie Zacharia was forced out as White House press secretary on Friday after five days on the job. Zacharia had just started on Monday and had not even moved to Washington yet. According to the NYT, Trump was walking across the South Lawn to leave for a midterm rally in Georgia when he stopped to talk to reporters. He told them he had asked his press secretary to “reconsider” her job.“Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider,” he told the reporters, recounting his talk with her.
“凯蒂，你需要这个吗？我不认为你需要这个。”凯蒂·扎卡里亚推动福克斯新闻露面《纽约邮报》获得的短信显示，凯蒂·扎卡里亚本人推动了两次福克斯新闻的露面。这些露面原定于周四和周五，就在她在白宫的首次简报会表现不佳之后。“我想在早上和晚上都做新闻节目，”扎卡里亚周三在给一名白宫官员的短信中写道。
“Katie, do you need this? I don’t think you need this.”Katie Zacharia pushed for Fox News appearancesText messages obtained by The New York Post show that Katie Zacharia herself pushed for two Fox News appearances. They were set for Thursday and Friday, after her rocky first briefing at the White House.“I’d like to do news hits morning and evening,” Zacharia wrote on Wednesday to a White House official.
《邮报》称这些安排被推迟了一天。据《邮报》所述，短信显示她早在周二——也就是她首次简报会的那天——就开始寻求电视露面机会。汉尼蒂的制片人那天写道：“凯蒂说她今晚可以从集会现场加入我们。”凯蒂·扎卡里亚因上任仅五天就被免去白宫新闻秘书职务：报道她周四晚上接受了塞恩·汉尼蒂的采访，随后周五早上又接受了《福克斯与朋友》的采访。
The Post said the bookings were pushed back by a day. According to The Post, the texts show she was looking for TV time as early as Tuesday, the day of her first briefing. A Hannity producer wrote that day, “Katie said she can join us from the rally tonight.”Katie Zacharia out as White House press secretary after just 5 days on the job: ReportsShe was interviewed by Sean Hannity on Thursday night and then by “Fox & Friends” on Friday morning.
据报道，她在解释为何未通过加州律师考试时遇到困难，且在其他议题上只能重复谈话要点。汉尼蒂向她提出了一些尖锐问题，并以罕见的怀疑态度对待她，而周五的节目同样不友好。汉尼蒂询问她是否认为工作人员本应更好地为她做准备。
As per reports, she struggled to explain why she failed the California bar and could not go beyond talking points on other issues. Hannity asked her a few tough questions and treated her with rare doubt, and that the Friday show was not friendly either. Hannity asked if she thought the staff should have prepped her better.
扎卡里亚曾对他说：“考虑到我当时上岗还不到八小时，早上才刚拿到简报材料，我觉得自己那天已经竭尽全力，不辜负美国民众的期望了，肖恩。”周五，主持人劳伦斯·琼斯问她：“你是否希望当时能向总统如实说明自己没通过律师资格考试的事呢？”据《纽约时报》报道，扎卡里亚答道：“劳伦斯，当时并没有人问到这些问题。”
Zacharia had told him: “Given the fact that I’d been on the job less than maybe eight hours and had a briefing book in the morning, I feel like I did my very best, Sean, to deliver for the American people that day.”On Friday, host Lawrence Jones asked her, “Do you wish you would have disclosed to the president about the bar and not passing the bar?”“Well, Lawrence,” Zacharia responded, “those questions weren’t asked,” as per the NYT.
在《Politico》的一篇报道中，一位消息人士称这些访谈属于“经过批准的针对性攻击”。这暗示白宫幕僚长苏西·怀尔斯策划了这些访谈，因为她事先并未批准对扎卡里亚的聘用。不过《华盛顿邮报》指出，相关短信记录并未显示怀尔斯在这些电视露面活动中发挥了任何作用。在凯蒂·扎卡里亚迅速离开白宫之前，有关其律师资格的质疑便已出现。
One source in a Politico story called the interviews a “sanctioned hit.”That suggested White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles planned them, as she did not approve the hiring in advance. But The Post said the texts do not show Wiles had any role in the TV appearances. One briefing, scrutiny over bar qualification preceded Katie Zacharia's swift White House exitShaky start, quick exitTrump offered Katie Zacharia the job last Friday.
起步不顺，匆匆离任。上周五，特朗普向凯蒂·扎卡里亚提供了这份工作。她原本只是个鲜为人知且没有薪酬的福克斯新闻评论员，此次被选中实属意料之外。她仅参加过一次简报会，时间是在周二。会上她基本照着稿子念，五分半钟后便终止了问答环节。随后各大媒体纷纷质疑：尽管她未能通过律师资格考试，却为何对外宣称自己是律师呢？
She was a little-known, unpaid Fox News commentator and a surprise pick. Her first and only briefing was on Tuesday. She mostly read from a script and ended questions after five and a half minutes. Headlines then asked whether she had wrongly presented herself as a lawyer, even though she failed her bar exam.
据《华盛顿邮报》报道，前白宫新闻秘书凯莉·麦克恩尼周六在福克斯电视台表示：“从一开始，这件事就注定会在媒体上引发轩然大波。”周五晚间，扎卡里亚在社交媒体上发文称，能为特朗普效力“是一种荣幸”。
Former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox on Saturday, as per The Post: “That was pretty much doomed from the start to roll out to the press.”In a social media post late Friday, Zacharia wrote that it “was an honor to work for” Trump.