
Appointed by Donald Trump, the new White House spokesperson admitted to having never passed the bar exam after being questioned by the American media.
New White House spokeswoman Katie Zacharia admitted Thursday night on Fox News that she failed to pass the bar exam, after US media questioned her qualifications as a lawyer.
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Katie Zacharia has been named White House spokesperson by Donald Trump.
The new White House spokesperson, Katie Zacharia, suspected of having embellished her CV, admitted Thursday evening to having failed the bar exam, necessary in the United States to practice the profession of lawyer. Freshly appointed by Donald Trump and already weakened, Katie Zacharia regularly presents herself as a lawyer, notably on social networks and on the Fox News channel, where she was a consultant.
But the American media cast doubt on this qualification, due to a lack of concrete evidence of his admission to the bar after his law degree from Pepperdine University in California. The 41-year-old spokesperson explicitly admitted her failure in an interview granted Thursday evening to Fox News, after several days of controversy reinforced by criticism of her first public performance, deemed mediocre by the press.
“Distracted and overwhelmed”
To Fox host Sean Hannity, who had just asked her, "You went to Pepperdine Law School but didn't pass the bar exam, right?" Katie Zacharia replied, "That's right." The journalist reiterated a few moments after his question: “You took the bar exam but you didn’t pass?” “Yes, Sean,” the spokesperson then said again. “Have you ever taken the bar exam a second time?” the journalist then asked her twice. “No, I didn’t,” Katie Zacharia finally replied.
In a previous interview earlier in the day with conservative media outlet Real America's Voice, she said she signed up for the bar exam but was "distracted and overwhelmed" at the time by her move to join her partner in China. “I knew I was going to live in China and the results of the bar were of no consequence,” she argued again on Fox News. Katie Zacharia then lived in Beijing, where she worked as a lawyer in a major Chinese law firm.
A notable introduction
She justified the fact of not having retaken the bar on her return to the United States by her maternity wards, emphasizing having had “four children in six years”. On Real America's Voice, Katie Zacharia previously denounced “misinformation” and “misunderstandings” concerning her. According to her, “many people in the legal sector” assured her that she could present herself as a lawyer, given her legal degree and her international experience in business law, acquired in China.

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