{"id":80069,"date":"2026-10-16T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/new-white-house-press-secretary-faces-more-scrutiny-this-time-from-trump-friendly-fox-news\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:55:04","slug":"new-white-house-press-secretary-faces-more-scrutiny-this-time-from-trump-friendly-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/new-white-house-press-secretary-faces-more-scrutiny-this-time-from-trump-friendly-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"New White House press secretary faces more scrutiny \u2013 this time from Trump-friendly Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Zacharia made the rounds at the conservative news channel to defend her appointment as Trump\u2019s mouthpiece<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/16\/trump-texas-senate-race-midterms-paxton-talarico-zacharia-ukraine-starlink-diesel-oregon-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/15\/katie-zacharia-trump-press-secretary-interview\">Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary<\/a>, faced intense scrutiny from news outlets including the rightwing cable network Fox News amid growing questions over her legal credentials.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on Fox on Friday \u2013 her fifth day as Donald Trump\u2019s chief spokesperson \u2013 Zacharia was asked if she still has the confidence of the US president. \u201cI\u2019m standing here,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/16\/white-house-press-secretary-katie-zacharia-fox-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Zacharia made the rounds at the conservative news channel to defend her appointment as Trump\u2019s mouthpiece US politics live \u2013 latest updates Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, faced intense scrutiny from news outlets including the rightwing cable network Fox News amid growing questions over her legal credentials. During an appearance on &#8230; <a title=\"New White House press secretary faces more scrutiny \u2013 this time from Trump-friendly Fox News\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/new-white-house-press-secretary-faces-more-scrutiny-this-time-from-trump-friendly-fox-news\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New White House press secretary faces more scrutiny \u2013 this time from Trump-friendly Fox News\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}