Zacharia has completed traffic school twice. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
IN AUGUST 2025, Katie Zacharia, who debuted this week as President Trump’s new press secretary, appeared on Fox News to lambast the “brazen” and “callous” street takeover drivers of Los Angeles who have “not faced consequences for the last decade under Soros-backed” district attorneys.
“They do not care about human life,” Zacharia declared.
What Zacharia didn’t say on air was that, the very same day she was denouncing reckless drivers on L.A. streets, she was due to complete traffic school for the latest of multiple distracted-driving infractions that she has racked up across Southern California.
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