After Trump calls her 'attorney', reports find WH Press Secy Katie Zacharia never passed bar exam. After US President Donald Trump called White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia an "attorney", reports found no record of her bar admission in the US. She acknowledged taking but not passing California's bar exam in 2011. Asked about where she passed her bar exam, Zacharia said, "When I moved to China." However, foreign nationals can't take the Chinese bar.