At last, we have the inside story on the short-term (five days, half a Scaramucci) of former White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia. She was struggling with an embarrassing first performance and misstatements about her lawyer status (she graduated law school, but there’s no record of her ever passing a state bar exam). That’s when her handling of a rumor doomed her brief time in office.

A vicious rumor had been circulating for hours that President Trump had been caught telling the truth. A nervous Zacharia stepped up to the press room lectern to speak to the assembled reporters.

“I want to assure all of you,” she bellowed, “that President Trump consistently delivers a forceful and reliably false account of the world from this podium as well as any other, including his posts on social media.”