White House press secretary Katie Zacharia fired after five days on the job

Trump advised Katie Zacharia to reconsider her press secretary role due to media backlash over her credentials.

Newly-appointed White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia is "transitioning out" after five days on the job [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is “transitioning out” of her role just one week after United States President Donald Trump tapped her for the job, Al Jazeera has confirmed.

Fox News on Friday reported that Trump said there was no rush to hire Zacharia’s replacement.

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Earlier Friday, Trump told reporters he told Zacharia to “reconsider” staying in the job.

“I don’t think Katie should be made to suffer like she’s suffering at the hands of the press,” Trump said as he departed the White House. “I said to her, ‘Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider. You think about it.’”

Zacharia said she had received a call about the role last week. She succeeded Karoline Leavitt.

Trump later announced her appointment and described her as an attorney. However, over the last week the question of whether Zacharia, a graduate of California’s Pepperdine University law school, had actually passed the bar exam to work as an attorney came under fire.

In an interview, she told Fox News on Thursday that she did not pass the bar exam.

She lasted five days on the job, half the length of Anthony Scaramucci’s tenure as director of communications, who served for 10 days during Trump’s first administration.

由于媒体对凯蒂·扎卡里亚的资历提出质疑，特朗普建议她重新考虑担任新闻秘书一职。

新任白宫新闻秘书凯蒂·扎卡里亚上任五天后“即将离职”[图片：凯文·拉马克/路透社]

半岛电视台证实，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普任命白宫新闻秘书凯蒂·扎卡里亚担任该职务仅一周后，她就将“卸任”。

福克斯新闻周五报道称，特朗普表示并不急于聘请扎卡里亚的继任者。

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周五早些时候，特朗普告诉记者，他已告知扎卡里亚“重新考虑”是否继续留任。

“我不认为凯蒂应该像现在这样遭受媒体的迫害，”特朗普离开白宫时说道。“我对她说，‘说实话，如果我是你，我会重新考虑一下。你好好想想。’”

扎卡里亚说她上周接到了关于这个职位的电话。她接替了卡罗琳·利维特的职位。

特朗普随后宣布了对她的任命，并称她为律师。然而，过去一周，扎卡里亚（毕业于加州佩珀代因大学法学院）是否真的通过了律师资格考试，这一问题受到了质疑。

周四，她在接受福克斯新闻采访时表示，她没有通过律师资格考试。

她在这份工作上只待了五天，是安东尼·斯卡拉穆奇担任通讯主管任期的一半，斯卡拉穆奇在特朗普的第一届政府中担任了十天的通讯主管。