Trump aide helped set up ‘sanctioned hit’ on Katie Zacharia: Report

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles helped arrange a tough Fox News interview with former White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, which was described by sources as a “sanctioned hit”, hours before she was removed from the role, according to reports.Zacharia appeared on Sean Hannity’s primetime show on Thursday, where she faced questions about her legal credentials and her brief, troubled stint as White House press secretary. She struggled to defend her record, including her claim to be a lawyer despite failing the California bar exam in 2011.According to The Telegraph, citing people familiar with the matter, Wiles helped set up the interview because Zacharia was not her preferred choice to replace Karoline Leavitt. One source described the appearance as a “sanctioned hit” on the former press secretary.A person familiar with the internal dynamics told Politico that Wiles and Hannity were friendly and spoke often.However, a senior White House official rejected the suggestion that Wiles had deliberately set Zacharia up for a difficult interview. “Susie and Sean do talk, but Susie did not need to feed her to Sean or anybody else. It’s not her style,” the official said, according...