New White House press secretary has a history of conspiracy-laced social media posts
The posts, many from 2022, reveal a history of inflammatory rhetoric and conspiracy-related content from a woman now poised to become one of the administration’s most visible spokespeople.
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President Donald Trump’s incoming White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, repeatedly made baseless accusations of pedophilia against prominent Democrats and shared conspiracy-related content, including claims that echoed the debunked “Pizzagate” theory and that Hollywood elites were pedophilic cannibals, according to a CNN KFile review of her social media posts.
The posts, many from 2022, reveal a history of inflammatory rhetoric and conspiracy-related content from a woman now poised to become one of the administration’s most visible spokespeople.
Zacharia also has a record of since-deleted social media activity that shows her advocating for hardline policies and criticizing the administration she is now poised to represent.
She pushed for more aggressive action on immigration, suggesting in a series of now-deleted posts from June 2025 that the administration should suspend habeas corpus for migrants because the circumstances justified invoking the Constitution’s exception for cases of rebellion or invasion. The fundamental legal protection allows people to challenge their detention in court.
Zacharia also publicly criticized the direction of Trump’s second administration, warning Republicans of a potential midterm “bloodbath” in a now-deleted tweet.
In another deleted tweet, she shared a post accusing the Justice Department of covering up for people implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. She also promoted on Truth Social a repost that claimed that comedian Joan Rivers died mysteriously after saying that former President Barack Obama was gay and that former first lady Michelle Obama had a penis.
In response to questions about her previous social media activity, Zacharia said in a statement to CNN, “I am grateful to serve President Trump as Press Secretary, and I will diligently and effectively amplify his successful agenda.”
In another statement, Steven Cheung, White House communications director, told CNN, “Katie is a fabulous and wonderful addition to the team. She is uniquely qualified and whip smart to help inform the American people about all the great things President Trump and his Administration have been doing, and she will do an incredible job as Press Secretary.”
Neither the White House nor Zacharia addressed the content of the posts.
Some of Zacharia’s since-deleted posts on X were first reported by The Bulwark. Her posts on Truth Social, the social media platform founded by Trump where she worked as communications adviser, remain publicly available on her account.
In posts on Truth Social in 2022, Zacharia repeatedly accused prominent political figures and Hollywood elites of pedophilia, at times invoking conspiracy theories about powerful people sexually abusing children.
“ Pedo Podesta. #pedoPodesta ,” Zacharia wrote in a September 2022 post about John Podesta, a longtime Democratic political operative and former White House chief of staff who had been a central target of the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
The false theory emerged during the 2016 presidential election after Russian-linked hackers released emails belonging to Podesta, then Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. Conspiracy theorists falsely claimed the emails contained coded references to child sex trafficking and that Clinton and other prominent Democrats were operating a child sex abuse ring out of the basement of Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington, DC.
The restaurant did not even have a basement, and the baseless claims had real-world consequences when in December 2016, a North Carolina man armed with a rifle entered the restaurant and fired shots while attempting to investigate the supposed trafficking ring.
Days after her first post on Podesta, Zacharia tagged Fox News host Sean Hannity and Trump in another post, asking why Fox News didn’t do a “ feature ” on “what a pedophile Podesta is.”
In another post, Zacharia wrote, “ The radical left Hollywood elitists are sick pedo cannibals. Change my mind ,” responding to a September 2022 Variety article about actor Timothée Chalamet receiving a standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival for his role in “Bones and All,” a film about two young cannibals in love.
Just weeks after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Zacharia also posted seemingly in support of Vladimir Putin, reposting a post that the Russian president was fighting a secret network of powerful elites.
“Putin is at war with the CABAL - and the Ukraine is in bed with them,” read the post from an account named Richard Tomas, which included an image featuring prominent political figures, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and billionaire George Soros.
Zacharia also reposted a baseless claim from Ali Alexander, a far-right activist who helped organize the “Stop the Steal” movement that promoted false claims of widespread election fraud following Trump’s 2020 defeat.
“ Democrats want to mask and rape your children. That’s their satanic platform ,” Alexander wrote in an April 2022 post that Zacharia shared.
Zacharia also reposted a September 2022 post from a Truth Social account called “Oinker” that compared then-President Joe Biden and anti-fascist protesters to Nazis, using the hashtags “#Antifa,” “#PedoHitler” and “#WrongSideOfHistory.”
Zacharia also reposted the baseless conspiracy theory about former first lady Michelle Obama and the death of Joan Rivers. “Remember that time Joan Rivers said Obama was gay and Michelle had a dick then suddenly died?” read the July 2022 post that Zacharia shared.
In another since-deleted tweet, Zacharia expressed frustration with the direction of Trump’s second administration, warning that the GOP could face devastating losses in the 2026 midterm elections if they didn’t shift course.
In a December 2025 post, Zacharia responded to far-right commentator Mike Cernovich, who had criticized figures in the administration for focusing on media appearances, podcasts and cryptocurrency schemes rather than delivering on their promises.
“We had our chance to save our country,” Cernovich wrote, lamenting that prominent figures were instead pursuing “vanity fair interviews, podcasts, and meme coins.” “ 2026 Midterms will be a bloodbath if we don’t shift course now ,” Zacharia replied.
Zacharia also amplified an accusation that the Trump administration’s Justice Department was covering up for people involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors.
On July 8, 2025, Zacharia retweeted a post from right-wing commentator Rogan O’Handley, known online as DC Draino, that questioned whether the Justice Department could be trusted.
“I wish I could get excited about this,” the post read, discussing Trump plans to investigate former FBI Director James Comey and other officials involved in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. “But if the DOJ will cover up for Epstein pedos, how can we trust them to go after these guys?”
The repost came just a day after the Justice Department and FBI released a memo concludin g that investigators had found no evidence of an Epstein “client list,” and no credible evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals.
The memo had sparked backlash from prominent Trump supporters, many of whom accused then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and other administration officials of concealing information about Epstein after years of promises to release additional records.
In June 2025, Zacharia also called for suspending the constitutional right to challenge one’s detention in court.
“ Suspend habeas corpus ,” she wrote in one post, first reported by The Bulwark. In two replies to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, she urged suspending it “for reasons of Invasion,” citing the Constitution’s clause allowing suspension “in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion.”
Miller had said weeks earlier that the administration was “actively looking at” the option.
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This crackpot may leave us wishing lyin' leavitt was still there.
Ya know what Zacharia and Hegseth have in common?
Neither one can pass the bar.
This the Maralago -faced weirdo as she introduced herself to the White House press corps this morning.
I wonder if the alien lizard dna does that to these women when they are taken over.
that's probably the first time she's been paid by a republican to make that face without her hair tied back while wearing a bib ...
My money is on Scaramuci.
on the other hand, if she can't remember which one is Trump and which one is her husband Tyler,
maybe Trump gets lucky before they dump her.
And the Monkey has jumped the shark to Zacharia.
Is this what mid life anorexia looks like now?
Here is what Jen Psaki Had to say about her.
I laughed thru that this morning. a fucking bimbo with an alleged chinese law degree. trump's press secretaries should all wear maga cheerleader uniforms and then volunteer for a west wing gangbang after every presser. oh wait, she's much too old for maga manly-men ...
She says got a law degree at Pepperdine in Malibu, although I don't know if that's been confirmed. She is NOT a licensed California lawyer. She seems to be claiming she has some kind of licensing status from China, which she definitely would not have. She is a FAKE.
She graduated, but it doesn't look like she ever took the bar exam.
She's been quoted she, “practiced international transactional law, with all the appropriate credentials.” in Beijing.
She's not practicing law for Trump so no big whoop, but the dumbasses who are bitching about a Dem with a medical degree who calls himself a Dr without ever practicing medicine should shut the fuck up.
So one can't call oneself a lawyer even if one has a law degree unless they are licensed?
Really just curious and not trying to pick a fight
They can say that they have a law degree. They cannot legally practice law as a lawyer without certification by at least one State Bar Association. At least that is my understanding.
I really have only hearsay knowledge of China's lawyers qualifications, so I asked chat GPT:
It is my understanding that in most, if not all, jurisdictions, unless someone has passed the bar exam and has obtained a license by being officially admitted to practice law in the jurisdiction, one may not call oneself a lawyer, and to do so is illegal and could constitute the unauthorized practice of law.
Oh, yeah? Put up your dukes!
Thanks to you and Thomas for answering my question. Now I know.
I'm fought out. I got into with a dude on the phone yesterday and hung up on him. Not the first time and probably won't be the last and yes it was work related
careful, with the midterm tsunami coming some of the maga are very hyper-sensitive about being unamerican scum now ...
Yeah...I deal with a lot of assholes in my job. What I particularly despise are businessmen who think they can talk to a woman any way they want to. I have a certain level of authority and they resent that. They talk over me and when I don't answer their question right away, they get really assholish. Pretty hard to answer a question when they ask another question before I can answer the first one and then talk over me. I am so glad I will be out of here by this time next year
Yay!!! Good for you!
Nah, they've still got their shit colored glasses on.
I don't see you taking shit from men. don't you have any friends in billing? take names, fuck with their bills ...
uh oh, their tearducts must be leaking again ...
Here is what Jen Psaki Had to say about her.
Morning..oh joy..
Got a half brain dead leader and now you have an air head plastic fantastic press secretary..
What could go wrong..😬
It is a match made in heaven.
we're all living in his shitty reality show now ...
It's just that some of us are in deeper than others..
Thank goodness we have the tyranny of distance 12,000 ks away from you mob...
Happy are we on our sand bar..
Just to be clear,
Is the article saying that SuperMom, maybe a lawyer, Kaitie, said that Obama was gay and Michele had a penis or was Katie saying that Joan Rivers was killed for saying so.
?
And she's out.
He hires the best people. So good they get the job done in under a week, apparently.
He should be his own press secretary, everyone could use more laughs.
This is just a confirmation of sorts that the wheels are coming off his regime.
They were "nasty" to her because she's a dingbat. He doesn't know anybody smart enough to handle this job
He doesnt like women who are smarter than him, which is most of them.
Love the photo... LMAO
It's from the Borowitz Report's Facebook page.
gee, west wing bimbo distractions sure seem to have a short shelf life in the trump administration ...
did she beat Scaramucci's record?
She lasted 0.45 Scaramuccis.