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Zacharia’s Fox Hole

Status · Brett LoGiurato · last updated

Katie Zacharia went on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program Thursday night for what she likely assumed would be a friendly interview—perhaps a chance to rescue her job, with her boss watching.

“Katie, I know this is a widely viewed interview for you,” Hannity said, setting up the stakes after what he called a “widely panned” first appearance in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. If it was a test, Zacharia didn’t pass. Some 17 hours later, Donald Trump fired her after four-plus days on the job, setting a new standard for a president who previously ousted his top spokesman in just 11 days.

Indeed, Zacharia’s employment was already teetering after a brutal first appearance and a scandal over her legal qualifications—both of which, I’m told, decimated…

 

 
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