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Fired In Under A Week? White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Out After Five Days

Katie Zacharia is out at the White House, lasting even less time than Anthony Scaramucci.

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It took many years, but a Donald Trump White House communications staffer has finally had a shorter tenure than Anthony Scaramucci’s 11 days in 2017.

Katie Zacharia is out as White House press secretary after five days and just one disastrous briefing, the New York Times reported Friday. Zacharia’s departure follows a poorly conducted press briefing, several poorly received Fox News interviews, and questions over whether she misidentified herself as a practicing lawyer.

“Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider,” Trump told reporters he said to his now-former press secretary on Friday, per the Times. “Katie, do you need this? I don’t think you need this.”

According to the Times account, Zacharia, a former Fox News commentator, “had gotten off to a bumpy start with her first and final press briefing on Tuesday, followed by an onslaught of headlines about whether she had misrepresented herself as a lawyer — the president called her ‘an attorney’— despite failing her bar exam.”

Zacharia holds a law degree, but had failed the California bar exam, setting off lots of disagreements over whether or not the terms “lawyer” and “attorney” were any different from each other. What is known as that Zacharia had presented herself as a lawyer in numerous TV appearances, and that she once spent almost a year as the general counsel for a nonprofit, which indicates she may have committed the crime of practicing law without a license.

A lot of people on social media teed off upon hearing the news, complete with lots of Scaramucci jokes:

Even Anthony Scaramucci himself had something to say:

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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