The Journal was sitting in her West Wing office at 1 p.m. Friday, as she insisted "there are no staffing changes that are happening."
Then Jason Miller knocked, she walked out to see Vance, and Trump walked to the helipad to tell reporters he'd asked her, "Is this for you, Katie?"
Less than an hour later she was out.
The backstory is a setup NOBODY survives.
She learned she'd be giving her first briefing just before Trump posted it, got her binder the morning of, read from notes, and had slept three hours after a Hannity grilling and her son's birthday.
One former official described her as an overwhelmed substitute teacher...
Trump told aides she wasn't talented.
She never passed the bar, which she'd never acknowledged while calling herself a lawyer.
But she also walked into a White House three weeks from an election where the chief of staff hadn't been consulted on her hire and the president is privately souring on his own team.
Honestly, she never stood a chance.
Mike
