President Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia held an unusually short first briefing with the media Tuesday, concluding after less than 15 minutes and calling on just three reporters, all from conservative outlets.The press secretary spent more than half of that time reading remarks before taking questions from Breitbart, Fox News and the Daily Mail.In response to the Daily Mail, she also revealed that the administration has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S.ambassador to Greece, to resign following allegations of misconduct.Zacharia spent most of her remarks touting the president’s policies and framed her new position as a job to “amplify” the president, something she said she’d done as a conservative commentator.
She referenced those appearances, telling reporters on Tuesday that she hopes to “take that into an official capacity.”Now, Zacharia said, she hopes to “only build on, only amplify, and only multiply, to the extent possible, all of the wins” that Trump is “making for Americans, for Americans to understand how much has changed in this brief period of time, what he’s been able to accomplish.”“My goal is to be able to communicate that in complete tandem with the president, as he is his own best spokesperson, and will absolutely be leading the way with that,” she added.Asked by Fox News whether the U.S.
has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine, she said she would “have to get back to you on that.”She did, though, address her views on the shifting media landscape and discuss balancing her family life in response to other questions.She said she wanted to “expand” on the new media seat “to the extent possible,” referencing her predecessor, Karoline Leavitt’s, decision to include a seat in the briefing room for non-traditional media.Breitbart held the seat on Tuesday.Leavitt departed the administration in August to “spend more time with her beautiful young children and family” Trump s...