BREAKING: Rep. Ted Lieu DEMANDS answers from Trump’s new Press Secretary concerning her LIES about being a "lawyer."
The controversy over the legal credentials of Katie Zacharia, Donald Trump’s latest press secretary, continues to roil the Trump administration.
There is no question that Zacharia has received a valid law degree from Pepperdine University, but whether she’s actually ever passed a bar exam remains to be proven.
The question became even more perplexing when Trump himself was asked by reporters outside the White House where his new mouthpiece passed the bar exam. Trump deferred the question to Zacharia herself, who replied: “When I moved to China.”
Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) smelled something particularly fishy with that answer and posted his concerns to social media: “One cannot take an American state bar exam in China, Lieu wrote. “Bar exams are administered at designated testing locations in each state of the union. Are Katie Zacharia and Trump lying when they say she is an attorney? If not, then she needs to disclose in what state she passed the bar.”
The problem with that is the fact that journalists have already searched the databases of bar-admitted attorneys in all 50 states and Washington D.C. and have found neither hide nor hair of any admissions record.
Rep. Lieu later posted a dictionary definition explaining the distinction between a lawyer and an attorney, which stated that a lawyer is anyone who has earned a law degree, while an actual attorney has both graduated from law school AND passed a state bar exam in order to receive their license to practice law.
While some people with law degrees decide to skip joining the bar to go into business or politics, they usually don’t try to pass themselves off as attorneys. The American people deserve a straight answer from Zacharia about her status in the legal profession. Either way, a law degree isn’t a necessary qualification when your job is to simply disseminate Trump’s lies.
It could come in handy, however, if the members of the Trump administration are prosecuted once they’re out of office
