White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is in hot water as she claims to be a lawyer but there is no confirmation that she passed the bar exam. A major row erupted over White House's new press secretary Katie Zacharia, calling herself a lawyer because experts said she is not. Zacharia has a law degree from the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, but there’s no evidence she ever passed a bar exam. “Where did she pass the bar exam? Which state?” a reporter asked Trump on Tuesday, who turned to Zacharia to ask her, “which state?”“When I moved to China,” Zacharia responded.But it's still not clear which bar exam she took as only citizens can become licenced to practice law in China. On her LinkedIn, she lists herself as "general counsel" for the activist group Fix California. She also listed Zhong Lun Law Firm in Beijing as her workplace for nearly two years starting in 2011.The White House said Katie moved to China with her husband after graduation because of his job at an American private equity firm while she worked on international transaction law.The US states where she lived in have no record of Zacharia as having a licence to practise law. The State Bar of California has no reco...







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