Trump’s New Mouthpiece Squirms During Fox Humiliation
Fox News President Donald Trump’s Bambi-on-ice press secretary has stumbled through a second humiliating Fox News interview.
After embarrassing herself on network star Sean Hannity’s eponymous show Thursday evening, Karoline Leavitt’s replacement, Katie Zacharia, was back for more.
She dialed in to ‘Fox & Friends’ on Friday morning and delivered the same uhming and ahing that defined her car-crash press-briefing debut.
To her credit, she avoided calling the 80-year-old president her husband this time, but at times she seemed to answer different questions than those asked by the occupants of the curvy couch.
When Brian Kilmeade asked how her first week has gone, the 41-year-old instead ranted about how much people love President Trump and bemoaned how the mainstream media portrays him.
Lawrence Jones had a go, asking about her failure to disclose to the Trump administration that she is not a lawyer, despite repeatedly saying she is .
She conjured up a surprising excuse.
“Yeah.
Well, Lawrence, those questions weren’t asked.
Uh, I’m being hired as White House press secretary and not White House counsel.
The conversations and the reason I was, um, the, the reason that I was hired was to represent the president in the press,” she spluttered.
Zacharia, who wore an intense toothy grin throughout the interview, failed the bar exam at Pepperdine University in 2011, after graduating from law school there.
Asked what she would do differently if she had another stab at her debut press briefing, she instead blamed the press for conjuring up a nothingburger.
“I’m just so grateful to be here, and I’m really looking forward to be an asset to President Trump and focusing on what he’s doing for the American people.
5News aggregated this summary from the outlet’s public feed. The full article, with all the context, is on www.thedailybeast.com — the content belongs to The Daily Beast.