Leavitt says Zacharia’s five-day White House press stint ‘was not for her’
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says Katie Zacharia’s five-day tenure showed the job was not for her, as she helps Trump choose a tougher replacement.Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital in a Thursday interview that the White House press secretary post is one of the hardest jobs in politics, and that her successor’s brief run made the mismatch plain.
Katie Zacharia took over on October 12 after Leavitt stepped back. She held her first briefing on October 13, lasted 14 minutes, read prepared remarks, took questions from only three journalists, and was out within five days, the shortest tenure on record for the role.
Leavitt did not sugarcoat it. Speaking from her own time in the briefing room, she said the job demands heavy preparation and that performance is hard to predict until someone is under the lights.
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It's been said that everyone is replaceable...not sure that Karoline Leavitt is.
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