Trump’s new press secretary says she passed bar exam ‘when I moved to China’, raising questions of US authority

Katie Zacharia maintains she ‘practiced international transaction law, with all the appropriate credentials’ Donald Trump ’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, has repeatedly described herself as a lawyer.

But when asked after her inaugural press briefing on Tuesday to name the state where she passed the bar exam, she replied curiously: “when I moved to China”.

No public record shows she has ever been licensed to practice law in the US states where she resided, and her answer to reporters’ questions on Tuesday only deepened scrutiny.

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