Posted on 10/16/2026 10:33:20 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, is reportedly out of a job. Fox News’s Aishah Hasnie reported, “A senior White House official tells @pdoocy Katie ZACHARIA is “transitioning out” of the press secretary position.”
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
Except she should not be calling herself a lawyer, as she did not pass the bar exam, or at the very least get admitted to practice (e.g. Wisconsin).
It's an accomplishment to get a JD. And as far as failing the bar exam, well, it happens.
That whole attorney / lawyer thing was a gaffe, but the biggest issue is it seems was that 1) she looked like a deer in the headlights and 2) she wasn't fully vetted so the Administration had a plan to respond to the questions regarding her legal background.
She worked as a lawyer in China.
That was always a stretch using that to establish her bone fides as an attorney.
Leavitt was a hard act to follow. Zechariah just wasn’t ?doing it
The MSM immediately caught wind of the fact that she never took the bar exam and immediately started attacking her.
Not faulting her or Trump, that's what the shark feeding media does.........
It doesn't matter who Trump's next appointed spokesperson will be, the MSM will give them the same anal exam and try to discredit them.
That's what they do.......
She never claimed to be an ATTORNEY.
Well, it IS a much nastier time now.* I don’t recall the fallout after Snow’s 1st couple pressers being such a reaming. But then again, I was really busy with work back then.
*I have a theory, or perhaps I should upgrade it to “observation”, that the web is not bringing people together so much as it is wrecking society, by much the same processes we see in Western society cities, or for that matter, when rodents get too crowded. I mean, yeah, it’s great that my wife can communicate with all her far flung friends so well, and there are gobs of useful information on the web that I use, from everything from straightening out my computer, or fixing the car, to gardening or cooking. But... I don’t think God designed humans for so many of these un-natural inputs, and while HE made us incredibly adaptable, it’s not enough, so unless people are VERY well grounded, they twist and pervert, some become vicious, and we see it exhibited in this case.
You are correct!
Let me rephrase:
“That was always a stretch using that to establish her bone fides as a lawyer”.
Either way, she should have just side-stepped the issue on being called anything other than a JD graduate, which is an accomplishment.
No. Sarah Huckabee was terrific. Katy needs to have a conversation or two with Sara, and she’ll be great.
All the female ‘not quite right” candidates end up with high marks for their next career.
Not up for the job. She was obviously very nervous her first time out. No PitBull mentality. Never show signs of weakness to vicious animals.
Well then
You’re right
Could have ended the whole thing by adjusting title to 'law clerk' and saying that she operated under the title of 'attorney' in China because that is what China insisted on, despite China not caring about her actual bar status (they didn't, because what little Chinese law there is, is garboo$h, but they still have to deal with the laws of every country they trade with).
Wiles wanted to see if she could extract herself from her own mess and she doesn't have the wherewithal. If you can't beat down tired old Hamfaced Hannity, who can you beat in the Swine throng in that press room?
Perfectly good Pepperdine Law seat used up for nothing; that seat could have gone to the next Charlie Kirk.
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