By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jasper Ward
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 – US President Donald Trump said on Friday he told new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia she should reconsider her role after facing public scrutiny a week after taking the job.
“I told her: ‘I think you’re better off being happy, and I’m not sure you can ever be happy in this stuff.’ There’s nothing easy about this stuff,” Trump told reporters.
He added: “I said to her honestly, ‘If I were you, I’d reconsider… think about it. But I would reconsider.'”
Fox News, citing a White House official, later reported that Zacharia was “transitioning” out of the role of press secretary. Zacharia held her debut White House briefing on Tuesday.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Zacharia had said she received a call about the role of press secretary last Wednesday and got offered the job to succeed Karoline Leavitt last Friday.
Trump later announced her appointment. In his announcement, he described her an attorney.
Over the last week, the issue of whether Zacharia, a graduate of California’s Pepperdine University law school, had actually passed the bar – making her an attorney – came under fire.
On Friday, during a Fox News interview on Thursday, Zacharia said she did not pass the bar.Anthony Scaramucci served director of communications for 10 days during Trump’s first administration.
(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Jasper Ward in Washington; Editing by Caitlin Webber)
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