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Press Secretary Katie Zacharia’s Debut Was Pure Amateur Hour

New York magazine · Margaret Hartmann · last updated

There’s a rumor that President Trump decided he was done waiting for his staffers to find him a new White House press secretary to replace Karoline Leavitt, so he picked one of his favorite conservative media personalities without consulting anyone. So far, that tracks.

New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia held her first press conference Tuesday morning, and it was a real amateur hour — or, rather, amateur 14 minutes. Here are the lowlights.

 

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