Trump's press secretary Katie Zacharia 'let go' after just days in the role

Katie Zacharia has been let go as White House press secretary days after taking the job. Questions over her bar exam record emerged before Trump urged her to reconsider the role.White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia. (Reuters)White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia has been let go from the role just days after taking charge, a White House official said on Friday, following public scrutiny over her credentials and comments by President Donald Trump suggesting she reconsider the job.Trump told reporters that he had advised Zacharia to think again about continuing in the role, describing the job as difficult."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 said while departing the White House.He added that he had urged her to reconsider the position. Fox News, citing a White House official, later reported that Zacharia was "transitioning" out of the press secretary role.Zacharia had only begun the job on Monday and held her first White House briefing on Tuesday. She had said she received a call about the position last Wednesday and was offered the job to succeed Karoline Leavitt last Friday. Trump subsequently announced her appointment, describing her as an attorney. However, questions emerged over whether Zacharia, a graduate of Pepperdine University School of Law in California, had passed the bar examination. During a Fox News interview on Thursday, she acknowledged that she had not passed the bar.Her departure comes just days after she took over one of the White House's most high-profile communications roles.- EndsWith inputs from Reuters