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Trump press secretary Katie Zacharia never passed bar exam, wrongly claims China has none
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PUBLISHEDOct 15, 2026, 9:52 PM
What the source reports
White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has acknowledged that she never passed a bar exam, days after telling reporters she had passed one “when I moved to China”.
In an interview with the conservative commentator Jack Posobiec on right-wing streaming channel Real America’s Voice on Thursday, Zacharia said she sat the California bar exam after graduating from Pepperdine University’s law school in 2011 but did not…
Main source: SCMP
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