White House press secretary never passed bar exam, wrongly claims China has none

South China Morning Post15 October 2026, 21:52 UTCUnited States of America

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 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 pass. She said the results were “somewhat inconsequential, because I knew I wouldn’t need the bar in China”,...

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