Fired Four Days After Taking Office... What Happened to the Spokesperson Handpicked by Trump?

[Anchor]

The newly appointed White House spokesperson personally chosen by U.S. President Trump has been dismissed just four days after taking office. Amid suspicions of false credentials and controversies over competence, she will go down as the shortest-serving spokesperson in history.

This is Kim Hyunwoo reporting from New York.

[Reporter]

White House Spokesperson Katie Zachariah was dismissed on the 16th, local time.

It has been merely four days since she began her duties.

U.S. President Trump told reporters at the White House that he had told Zachariah to rethink her position.

[Donald Trump / U.S. President: The attacks from the media right from the start were too harsh. I've never seen anything like it. So I honestly told her, "If I were you, I would rethink it, think about it well."]br />
Trump hinted that he had practically notified her of her dismissal, saying that the White House spokesperson role might not be the right fit for her.

[Donald Trump / U.S. President: She has had a very tough time over the past few days. Maybe this job is not right for her. So I told her that life should be lived happily.]br />
During her first official briefing held just two days after taking office, Zachariah kept her eyes glued to her prepared script, reading continuously for about 8 minutes, and hastily left the podium after taking questions from only three reporters.

[Katie Zachariah / White House Spokesperson: You can ask President Trump about that there (in Alaska). Thank you.]

Furthermore, media reports surfaced that although she had routinely introduced herself as a law school graduate and attorney, there are no records of her being registered as a lawyer in the United States, and she failed the California bar exam in 2011, raising suspicions that she had fabricated her background.

[(Which state did you pass the bar exam in?) That was when I went over to China.]

Zachariah, who was personally selected by President Trump, is expected to be recorded as the shortest-serving White House spokesperson in history, stepping down in disgrace amid controversies over her qualifications and suspicions of false credentials.

(Camera filming: Lee Hee-hoon, Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)
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