Katie Zacharia picked as White House press secretary

WASHINGTON — Katie Zacharia, a communications ​adviser for President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform, has been offered the position ‌of White House press secretary following Karoline Leavitt's departure from the ⁠role in August, ​a White House official ⁠said on Friday.

Zacharia did not immediately ‌respond to a ‌request for comment, but if she ⁠accepts the role, she ⁠would fill a critical role in the Trump administration before next month's midterm congressional elections, New York Times first reported the news.

Zacharia briefly served as a spokesperson ‌for the Department of ​Homeland Security before departing in March.

The conservative commentator is a senior communications adviser for Truth Social and the Trump Media & Technology Group, according to her LinkedIn page.

Zacharia previously worked as a legal adviser for ​Fix California, a conservative group that ‌aims to address ‌what ⁠it described as "the left's stranglehold" on state politics. The group was founded by Richard Grenell, who has served as Trump's envoy ‌to Venezuela and is ​the interim president ‌and executive director ⁠of the ​Kennedy Center in Washington.

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