Donald Trump’s new press secretary Katie Zacharia is facing embarrassing
questions over whether she is actually qualified to practice law – despite
describing herself as a lawyer and being publicly introduced by the president as an attorney.
Zacharia became embroiled in controversy just days after taking up one of Washington’s most demanding communications jobs.
The dispute erupted after she struggled to answer questions about her legal qualifications, prompting scrutiny of her education, professional history and previous employment in China.
Asked in which state she had passed the bar examination, Zacharia twice bizarrely responded: