
Just a few days after her debut, there are questions about Katie Zacharia's career. The Wall Street Journal reports that she took the bar exam - but failed.
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Katie Zacharia recently succeeded Karoline Leavitt as US government spokeswoman.
Has new Trump spokeswoman Katie Zacharia passed her bar exam? Or not? Since her appearance alongside US President Trump on Tuesday, there has been confusion about this question. Now the Wall Street Journal reports: No, Katie Zacharia didn't pass her bar exam in the USA, but still calls herself a lawyer. How could this come about?
Trump himself introduced his new spokeswoman as an “attorney”, i.e. a lawyer. The former Fox News commentator is also said to have mentioned that she was a lawyer during television appearances and on LinkedIn. Shortly after her appointment, doubts arose as to whether 41-year-old Zacharia actually took the bar exam after graduating from Pepperdine University in 2011.
An appearance by Zacharias alongside US President Trump on Tuesday reinforced the doubts. Journalists wanted to know from Donald Trump in which state she took her exam. Zacharia spoke up from the background and said: “When I moved to China.” She later told the New York Times that she had misunderstood the question.
The Wall Street Journal now writes that after graduating and shortly before moving to China, she took the bar exam in California, but failed. The ethics organization Campaign for Accountability is already calling on the state bar association to launch an investigation. Apparently Zacharia is a lawyer, but not a licensed attorney in the USA.
Katie Zacharia finished her first press conference on Tuesday after just a few minutes. She is considered arch-conservative and loyal to Trump. In the past she has repeatedly shown a closeness to conspiracy theories. In September 2022, she spread the false claim that Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager, John Podesta, was a pedophile. Former television commentator Zacharia succeeds Karoline Leavitt, who resigned at the end of August.
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