The ousted press secretary’s disastrous interview with Sean Hannity has sparked allegations of a White House setup.

Fox News host Sean Hannity pressed new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia on her first briefing with reporters this week and her claiming to be an attorney despite not passing the bar exam. Hannity began his interview of Zacharia on Thursday evening saying,

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles helped set up Katie Zacharia’s appearance on Fox News Thursday night, when the embattled new press secretary struggled to answer questions about her rocky first days on the job, according to two people familiar with the internal dynamics.

A source claimed to Politico that Susie Wiles and White House spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez "fed" Katie Zacharia to Sean Hannity.

The new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was mocked online on Tuesday after she held her first briefing because of her noticeable lack of public speaking skills, her likely false claim that she is a lawyer, and her unwillingness to take many questions from the press, even compared to her Trump-era predecessor, Karoline Leavitt.

Fox News veteran Sean Hannity was all but foaming at the mouth as he tried to defend Donald Trump’s new press secretary after her car-crash debut at the White House. Katie Zacharia’s first outing as Trump’s official mouthpiece lasted just 14 minutes,