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The new White House press secretary failed the bar exam. She shared posts calling her an attorney anyway

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New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia shared at least 15 social media posts identifying her as an “attorney” over the past two years, despite having failed the California bar exam and acknowledging publicly she had been advised not to use that term.

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