What Issue Concerns You Most?
Why subscribe? Silence is not an option. Take part in the community so we can drive change together. What Issue Concerns You Most? A Saturday Prompt Steven Beschloss Oct 17 Oh, the company he keeps: Trump with now-ousted Katie Zacharia and his always-there aide Natalie Harp. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images) The joke is that Katie Zacharia’s exit a s White House Press Secretary after five days is barely half a Scaramucci. (Recall that Anthony Scaramucci lasted just 11 days as Trump communications director back in 2017.) You would be right to think that her rise and fall is a story of incompetence—both hers and the people who hired her. I would also suggest it’s another example of the gargantuan levels of corruption of Donald Trump and his so-called government: Zacharia was barely vetted (no one questioned her claims that she was a lawyer?), she wasn’t given the time to prepare for her first press conference, she was clearly plucked for the job because she is a Trum...