Donald Trump's ousted press secretary Katie Zacharia has broken her silence after being unceremoniously removed from her role just five days into the job.
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Zacharia wrote on Instagram: 'President Trump is a kind, wonderful, gracious, thoughtful, enthusiastic, and the most hardworking man.
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Trump → write → Instagram
I wish more Americans appreciated him.
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Americans → wish → him
No one will ever make America great the way he has and continues to.
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he → make → ?
It was an honor to work for him.'
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A senior White House official told the Daily Mail that Zacharia is 'transitioning out' of the position on Friday.
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Earlier, Donald Trump told reporters at the White House he asked her to consider quitting.
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'You don't have to do this if you don't want to,' Trump said he told Zacharia.
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he → have → Zacharia
'Honestly if I were you I'd reconsider.
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'Maybe it's not for her,' Trump added.
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When asked if he would fire her, Trump responded: 'No, I want her to have a good life.
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On Friday, 41-year-old Zacharia was summoned to meet the president.
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'You don't have to do this if you don't want to,' Trump told her.
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'Honestly if I were you I'd reconsider'
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She previously only lasted six weeks as a communications adviser at Homeland Security earlier this year.
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A source close to Zacharia told The Daily Mail that she had been effectively set up to fail.
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'Katie is a beautiful person who was brought into an incredibly tough situation with sharp knives from every direction.
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She was attacked by the left, the right, the media, and it seems like from nearly every room at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,' they said.
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The insider also slammed her co-workers for leaking nasty comments about her to the press.
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Instead of focusing on how to help her succeed, colleagues spent their time texting negative tear downs to the media.'
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They noted that Trump needs 'a team that works together for the good of the administration and the party' ahead of the midterms, with Zacharia's ordeal showing off the opposite.
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'What we’ve unfortunately witnessed is a window into the macro political GOP system - where purity tests and greed have destroyed a near perfect launch pad for decades of success, from within,' they said.
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'She had to learn this the hard way, but contrary to what international news has led people to believe all week - she’s smart, driven, kind and will be fine, and probably better off.
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Her tenure has been rocky from the start after a 14-minute debut briefing drew criticism for her nervous stature.
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Her debut briefing on Tuesday lasted just 14 minutes and allowed questions from only three reporters.
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Leavitt’s briefings averaged about 45 minutes.
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When reporters asked that day where she had passed the bar, Zacharia said she had passed it when she moved to China.
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She later told the New York Times she hadn’t heard the question over the noise of Marine One.
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In a tense interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night, she acknowledged that she failed the California bar exam in 2011, never retook it and considered the results inconsequential.
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As the segment ended, she promised Hannity she would be very prepared going forward and would step up to the duty the President had given her.
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This is a breaking news story.
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