Katie Zacharia admits she failed the bar exam on her first attempt in 2011, years after calling herself a lawyer

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Katie Zacharia admits that she never passed the bar exam.
The new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, admitted that she failed her bar exam the first time she took it in 2011 in California and never retook it, as she then moved to China with her husband.
In an interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Zacharia said she was told that she could call herself a lawyer but not an attorney and that's what she did throughout, but some social media posts called her attorney.

Katie Zacharia admits that she never passed the bar exam.
The new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, admitted that she failed her bar exam the first time she took it in 2011 in California and never retook it, as she then moved to China with her husband.
In an interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Zacharia said she was told that she could call herself a lawyer but not an attorney and that's what she did throughout, but some social media posts called her attorney.

Sources: Times of India