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Zacharia out
After Popular Information revealed Katie Zacharia falsely described herself as a practicing attorney, the new White House press secretary was removed from her position five days into the job.
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On Tuesday morning, Popular Information broke the news that newly appointed White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia did not have a law license — despite claiming for years that she was a practicing attorney. On Friday, after days of intense scrutiny about her legal credentials, Zacharia was “transitioned out” of the role.
CNN reported that Zacharia’s removal was a direct result of her inability to satisfactorily respond to Popular Information’s reporting, which became a problem for her even on typically friendly platforms like Fox News:
After a string of surprisingly combative interviews on Fox News – specifically her appearance with Trump’s friend Sean Hannity on Thursday night, when the host grilled her over her legal credentials – the president decided it was untenable for her to remain in the role.
Zacharia’s abrupt removal was a damaging development for Republicans so close to the midterm elections. “18 days until Election Day, and instead of driving this unifying message, Republicans are dealing with the fallout of Katie Zacharia’s firing after just five days on the job,” CNN’s Laura Coates said.
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Also this week in Popular Information
Zacharia repeatedly promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory on social media, accusing elites from the Democratic Party and Hollywood of sexually trafficking children and eating people, a Popular Information review of Zacharia’s social media found.
Shortly after Zacharia’s first press conference, a reporter asked Trump where she had passed the bar exam. Zacharia, standing nearby, suggested she took the test in China, where she worked for a law firm from 2011 to 2013. But this makes no sense. China does not allow U.S. citizens to take its bar exam and no U.S. state offers a bar exam in China.
