The Keith Edwards Show - The REAL reason she was fired..

Episode Date: October 16, 2026

👍 SUPPORT THE SHOWSubscribe on Edwards WireBecome a MemberKeith Edwards reacts to BREAKING WHITE HOUSE NEWS - Trump has officially fired Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, after just 5 days on the job.📡 JOIN THE COMMUNITYListen on SpotifyFollow me on FacebookFollow me on InstagramFollow me on TikTokFollow me on XFollow me on Threads🎙️ TALK TO MEVoicemail line: ‪[phone]‬Business: [e-mail]

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How you measure? 11 days in political time is a scaramucci. And after today, how you measure five days will be a Zachariah because we are now learning that Katie Zachariah wasn't long for this world. I hope

she didn't have any plans to move to D.C. because Donald Trump just gave her the knife and we now just got a breaking news report that Zachariah is out. She's out. First, we kind of knew this is happening. 30 minutes ago when Trump said this

about Katie. What I'm doing is, I said, when I get back, we're going to talk. Because I don't think that Katie should be made to suffer like she's suffering at the hands of the press. So I will talk to her as soon as I get back. Not really a vote of confidence, is it? Donald Trump saying right there that Katie Zachariah is suffering from the press and then went on to say that she would be with the administration in some form or another.

more pleasant form. I'll have anybody else on your list or protect the dress secretary? A lot of people want the job. I'll bet you'd want it if I offered a chair but a lot of people who want that job. But I just think the press is a very tough for Katie and I said there's no reason for you that to do it.

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Are you upset that she didn't just stop passing the bar? Well, I wasn't in the hiring. I was hiring her to be a lawyer. I was hiring me a freshman, but nobody really went crazy over that. I would say it probably wouldn't have mattered. I know many people, many people, many very smart people. Some of them take the bar for exams, the bar exam four times, but I wasn't hiring as a lawyer. I hired as a press. And she's been very good, you know, she's been loyal to me from day one for a long time. But it's not an easy job, and I think she was really treated very unfairly. So I'll also. speak to her about it. I told her, I think you're better of being happy. And I'm not sure you can ever

be happy in this guy. There's nothing easy about this job. I mean, it's kind of, it's kind of incredible that Donald Trump's like, I don't care that she lied about her credentials because she was loyal to me. I suppose, not surprising, but still incredible to hear. We kind of all know that to be true. And now we have this reporting here where Katie Zachariah is out, according to the New York Times. Katie Zachariah is out after five days is White House press secretary. The officer came as Ms. Zachariah was shadowed by questions about how she presented her legal career

and handled her first press briefing. This is actually incredible, y'all. This is incredible. Let's us read. It's very short report at this time. The president's new press secretary, Katie Zachariah was fired Friday. Wow, they're calling it fired.

They're not even, you know, there was previous reporting that Donald Trump said that he was going to let her make a decision for herself. And now they're really just knifing her. knifing her, saying that she's fired. After less than one week on the job, according to the three people familiar with the matter, neither the White House nor Ms. Zachariah responded to request for comment, but Mr. Trump told reporters on Friday that he encouraged Ms. Zachariah to reconsider the job.

Honestly, if I were you, I'd reconsider, he told reporters. He added, Katie, do you need this? I don't think you need this. Ms. Zachariah had gotten off to a bumpy start with her first and final press briefing on Tuesday, followed by an onslaught of headlines about whether she had misrepresented herself as a lawyer, the president called for an attorney despite failing her bar exam.

I mean, here's the thing. I'm sad about this because that was fucking entertaining as hell. Bad for the country? For sure? Great for our YouTube channel. We all had a lot of good laughs at the expensive Katie Zachariah.

And I'll tell you what, she will be 100% missed. I'm going to miss her, and I don't know where she's going to be going next. But I'll tell you what, we will miss her one and only press briefing. I can't believe, you know, you didn't know what you had until it's gone.

Truly. Now, the smart people on the live stream, when we live streamed about her on Tuesday, we do live stream every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Eastern. The folks in the live stream, we asked, how long do you think she'll last? Two weeks, a month, two months, six months. All you all said, two weeks, overwhelmingly.

So you are very smart. I said maybe two months, maybe. I truly did not think they had it in them to be like, me just got to let her go. But I think that's what really happened. I showed you yesterday. Sorry, we live streamed it yesterday, and we also did a video on it today where Sean Hannity,

it looked like it was given a kill order from someone within the White House to do a hard interview on her to expose. happened again on Fox and Friends because I'm pretty sure what they wanted was just more excuses to get rid of her. And here she is getting like walloped on a cable news show. Katie, first off, thanks so much for joining us. Congratulations on the job. Your thoughts about how it's gone so far. Brian, thank you for having me. It's such a privilege to be here on behalf of President Trump. And I was, I hit the ground running after the briefing. We went to a lot of.

Alaska, Arizona, Montana, and this president, every single rally is a different speech. And I have to tell you, as we pulled up to this rural Montana rally, that place was overwhelmed with major supporters. And what it reminds me, Brian, is that America loves President Trump. And when you read the news or when you read online, they have all this hate. But the real ground truth is all of these rallies are making a substantial difference for these midterms. And it has been a blitz. This president Trump has more energy, more enthusiasm, and more drive to save America.

And I'm so excited to be along the journey with him. And I have to keep up with him because girl, you were on the journey. That journey has ended five days. Because he has so much energy, Brian. You know, Katie, it's been a tough week for you. You know, it's not an easy job to be the press secretary. And you never want to be the story. But I have to ask, do you wish you would have disclosed to the president?

about the bar and not passing the bar. Yeah, well, Lawrence, those questions weren't asked. I'm being hired as White House Press Secretary and not White House counsel. The conversations and the reason I was, the reason that I was hired was to represent the president in the press. It's pretty incredible as she got this far, truly an American success story. Now, she probably knew something was up because look, she did not take any press questions from the press.

And she said she encouraged reporters to reach out. Girl, they're right there. And I knew she was cooked because these are all conservatives in the comments, saying not hating, but she sounds like a wind-up doll. She's done and doesn't even know it how embarrassing. She will be out in 30 days. Like, listen, she just did not have the juice. And she is officially gone.

She's gone. But I'll miss you, Katie. And by the way, I'm so sad. I've never had a White House press secretary follow me before. And I guess this will only have been the only time for all of four hours that she was still a press secretary when she did follow me. But for some reason, Katie Zachariah took it upon herself to hit the follow button on my Twitter account. I don't know why. I don't know why.

But it's instincts like that that make me think she would have been a great press secretary. It's so sad. We'll never see what she could have done. And I will see you soon. Bye. Thank you so much for watching. We're live every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Eastern, and we have new videos daily. Now, if you want a little bit more, click below and hit join to become a member of our community for even more exclusive content. Just click join below. Follow us. We are everywhere. We're on threads, Instagram, TikTok, X, Blue Sky.

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