The new spokeswoman for the White House admits that she failed the bar exam: "I knew I was going to leave for China"

The new spokeswoman for the White House admits that she failed the bar exam: "I knew I was going to go to China" The new spokeswoman for the White House, Katie Zacharia, suspected of having "inflated" her resume, admitted that she failed the bar exam, required in the United States to practice law, reports AFP and The Guardian. Katie Zacharia had to defend herself after her first appearance in the White House briefing room on Tuesday, and after questions were raised about her legal qualifications. She regularly presents herself as a lawyer on social networks and on Fox News, where she was a consultant. However, the American press questioned this qualification due to the lack of concrete elements attesting to her admission to the bar after obtaining her law degree from Pepperdine University in California. The spokeswoman, aged 41, explicitly admitted the failure in an interview granted to Fox News on Thursday, after several days of scandal, deepened by critics about her first public performance, considered mediocre by the press. "I knew I was going to go to China, and the bar result didn't matter" Fox host Sean Hannity asked her: "You studied at Pepperdine. Pepperdine is a good university, without a doubt. You took the admission exam to the bar, but you didn't pass it, correct?" "Yes, Sean," she replied. "Well, and you took it a second time?" the host asked her. "To give some context, I graduated from Pepperdine, got married in the same week, and our plan was to move to China. I had already registered for the bar exam. But during the summer, I knew I was going to live in China, and the exam result no longer mattered. I took the exam because I didn't want to appear as a failure. Then I moved to China, where I got a job in the international practice department of a Chinese law firm. I dealt with cross-border transactions and shareholder agreements worth millions of dollars," the spokeswoman explained. "I know this part of the story and I know that you did all these things, but did you take the bar exam a second time?" the journalist asked her, then in two lines. "No, I didn't," Katie Zacharia finally answered. In another interview, which she gave previously on Thursday, the Real America’s Voice website, she stated that she had applied for the bar exam but was "distracted and overwhelmed" at that time by her move to China. "I knew I was going to live in China, and the bar result didn't matter," she stated to Fox News. Katie Zacharia then lived in Beijing, where she worked as a lawyer at an important Chinese law firm. She justified not taking the bar exam again to return to the United States because she was pregnant. She emphasized that she gave birth to "four children at six years old". On Real America’s Voice, Katie Zacharia previously denounced the "misinformation" and "misunderstandings" she was subjected to. She stated that "many people in the legal sector" assured her that she could present herself as a lawyer, given her law degree and international experience in business law gained in China. The ethics association in politics Campaign for Accountability asked the California Bar to open an investigation on Wednesday. An Hesitant Beginning Katie Zacharia, who is not well known to the general public, made a notable appearance on Tuesday, with an unusually short press conference where she answered questions asked by three journalists she carefully selected. She was followed by Karoline Leavitt, another supporter of Donald Trump, who resigned in August to take care of her young children. In her opening statement, Zacharia repeatedly praised Trump's energy and emphasized the large number of participants in his rallies, where, in recent days, dozens of spots remained unfilled. Zacharia then answered the questions posed by three publications: Breitbart News, Fox News, and Daily Mail, all covering the news from a conservative perspective. She said that "she will have to return with an answer" to a question from Fox regarding the information exchange with Ukraine—a response that is rather unusual on a topic that occupied a prominent place in the news on Tuesday morning, writes Washington Post. She then announced the resignation of the ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle. Zacharia then made an expression error when speaking about "my president" while referring to her husband, when she answered a friendly question about how she intends to find a balance between the time spent with her four young children and the demands of the job.