The inbound White House press secretary has actually gone far for herself as an on-air legal professional, declaring she’s a lawyer. Is she?
Katie Zacharia is not in fact certified to practice law throughout the nation, according to a report released Tuesday by Popular Info‘s Judd Legum.
The 42-year-old gotten her JD from Pepperdine Caruso Law in 2011, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her work history likewise consists of a gig as “basic counsel” for a Ric Grenell– ran not-for-profit based in California, however Legum discovered she held no qualifications to practice law there.
Zacharia is not noted as a member of the bar in Texas or Washington, D.C., either, in spite of proof that she likewise worked there in a legal capability.
After examining state bar association databases from all 50 states and Washington, Legum discovered that Zacharia never ever really passed the certifying legal examination anywhere.
In an emailed action about Zacharia’s suspicious resume, the White House referred Legum to Donald Trump’s Friday Fact Social postin which he stated Zacharia’s consultation under the pretext that she is a “recognized Graduate of Pepperdine University, and the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, a lawyer, and a regular Commentator on outlets, consisting of Fox News and Newsmax.”
The White House did not use any other supporting proof for Zacharia’s work history.
Attending to press reporters together with Trump on Tuesday, Zacharia declared she passed the bar when she “relocated to China.” Zacharia’s LinkedIn mentions she resided in China from 2011 to 2013 while working as a law partner and an interactions supervisor for a global kids’s rights group. There is no sign she took or passed any U.S. bar examination while in China.
She likewise could not have actually practiced law in China since immigrants are prohibited to do so. Just Chinese nationals (with some exceptions in Hong Kong and Taiwan) are permitted to take the nation’s bar test and practice Chinese law.
That’s not her only fudged reality. Zacharia has actually formerly declared that the abortion tablet, mifepristone, came directly from Nazi Germanyand utilized her Truth Social account to raise the Pizzagate conspiracywhich baselessly implicated Hillary Clinton and other popular Democrats of taking part in a kid sex trafficking ring in the basement of a Washington pizzeria called Comet Ping Pong. (In 2016, the unproven Pizzagate whisperings motivated an armed shooter to increase from North Carolina and open fire inside the dining establishment, just to find the center has no basement and was not holding kids hostage.)
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Texas Attorney General and Senate prospect Ken Paxton invested New Year’s Eve 2024 partying in Dubai with his girlfriend and 2 U.S. fugitives arraigned on healthcare scams charges.
In a video gotten by The Wall Street JournalPaxton can be seen surveying the fireworks over the Dubai horizon beside his sweetheart Tracy Duhon. Arraigned fugitives Sameer Suhail and Anosh Ahmedwho contributed to Paxton’s project, were likewise present. Suhail and Ahmed were federally arraigned in 2024 on charges of embezzling $15 million from the Illinois medical facility where Ahmed was primary monetary officer. Ahmed was later on charged with another even grander plan in which he supposedly offered $195 million worth of malfunctioning Covid-19 tests to the federal government.
As President Trump weighed backing Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn of Texas this spring, he was informed that harmful discoveries were most likely to emerge about Paxton, according to individuals knowledgeable about the discussions. Trump was dismissive and stated there would be more unfavorable product about Democratic candidate James Talarico. Trump raked ahead and backed the scandal-plagued Texas chief law officer, assisting him win the Republican-primary overflow in May. Months later on, that choice is appearing like Trump’s greatest gamble of the midterms. In spite of efforts by Paxton to paint his challenger as a far-left zealot, Talarico regularly holds a narrow lead in surveys, raising a when unimaginable possibility: A Democrat might win statewide workplace in Texas for the very first time considering that 1994. Harmful discoveries about Paxton continue to emerge. A brand-new scene that might sign up with the list: a formerly unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 event where Paxton partied in Dubai with 2 fugitives from U.S. justice and a female who wasn’t his partner. As fireworks blew up over the Burj Khalifa high-rise building to invite 2025, Paxton and his sweetheart Tracy Duhon saw from a high-end high-rise veranda loaded with individuals, according to a video of the event seen by The Wall Street Journal, information of which were included in court filings and validated by individuals knowledgeable about the matter. Find out more: https://t.co/RTgNFmUuhn
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 13, 2026
Ahmed contributed $190,000 to Paxton’s project, consisting of $25,000 simply a couple of days after his indictment. Both guys invested substantial time beyond the U.S. after their indictments, making time to relate to Paxton in Dubai before Ahmed went to Serbia, where he was jailed. Suhail was apprehended at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Both are back in U.S. custody now.
“Every time you believe Ken Paxton could not become worse, he discovers a method to show you incorrect,” the Democratic Senate Majority PAC composed on X“Turns out, Paxton partied in Dubai with 2 fugitives from U.S. justice and a female who wasn’t his better half.”
Why did the Texas lawyer basic invest New Year’s Eve in Dubai with his girlfriend and 2 prosecuted guys, one of whom contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to his election efforts? His project didn’t have a strong response.
“Like President Trump, Ken Paxton has actually been politically maltreated for several years, and whenever, citizens have actually translucented it and sent him back to workplace due to the fact that they understand he has actually constantly defended Texas,” the Paxton project informed WSJ
This is simply the current advancement in among the most scandal-ridden Senate projects in current history. And yet even through his own grand jury indictment, a public affair and divorce, and several questionable leakages in which he made disparaging remarks about the president, Paxton still stays neck and neck with his Democratic challenger James Talarico.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle has actually formally resigned as U.S. ambassador to Greece.
She made the statement Tuesday in a declaration on Twitter, thanking Donald Trump for the chance and noting what she achieved throughout her brief period. She likewise took objective at the reports of corruption that resulted in her failure.
“I likewise wish to resolve the current claims versus me. These claims are incorrect, and I mean to intensely protect my name, my credibility, and my stability. I have actually devoted my expert life to combating for justice, defending what is right, and safeguarding the worths that make America remarkable. I will not permit incorrect allegations to specify my years of civil service,” she composed
Newly-minted Press Secretary Katie Zacharia at first dropped the bomb on Guilfoyle earlier Tuesday. Throughout her very first White House press instruction, Zacharia was asked whether President Donald Trump prepared to eliminate his ambassador to Greece following claims that she took part in prohibited conduct.
Zacharia exposed that the ouster was currently underway.
“We have actually asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign,” Zacharia stated. “She has actually been a fantastic possession to the group, and we want her well.”
In a series of reports, Guilfoyle has actually been implicated of threatening a host nation authorities and using gain access to to Trump administration authorities in return for the peaceful payment of a $100,000 charge card costs. She was likewise captured extoling her close ties to 2 Greek magnates who she stated were bankrolling her journeys, as she pled to enter into a supper with Eric Trump.
The State Department’s inspector general is checking out the accusations, a U.S. authorities informed the Associated Press Monday, however might not state whether an official examination had actually been released.
While taking concerns from press reporters beyond the White House Monday night, Trump was asked whether he was thinking about shooting Guilfoyle, the ex-fiancé of his boy Donald Trump Jr.
” Well, we’re taking a look at it. Yeah, we’re not pleased,” he stated candidly.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has actually likewise ended up being significantly disappointed as the reports about Guilfoyle’s supposed misbehavior increased, another U.S. authorities informed the AP. Rubio was especially pissed off after he gotten here in Greece recently totally uninformed of the shitstorm that will drizzle down on America’s ambassador there.
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President Donald Trump buffooned a protester as they were being physically assaulted by his rallygoers.
At a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Monday, Trump’s address was disrupted by a battle in the stands. A video of the event revealed a bald male in a T-shirt punching a lady in the face, pulling her hair, and striking her consistently.
“Paid protester,” the president stated flatly, as the upset crowd shouted, “USA! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”
Several gatekeeper approached and approximately dragged the female away, appearing to leave the guy who assaulted her in his seat.
“He’s a paid protester, they’re all paid. They make money by the lefties in order to ruin our nation. They’re residue. He’s going back home to mommy. He’s returning home to mama,” Trump stated. It’s unclear whether he was describing the protester as “he” to be derisive or since he truly might not see.
“Look at him. Take a look at him, awful. Do not we enjoy police? Oh, he’s got ta go on a diet plan. He’s a fat guy. Wow. Wow,” Trump stated, the crowd rupturing into cheers. “Got ta go on a diet plan quickly, all of us do.”
The crowd continued to shout: “USA! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”
holy shit– a protester at the Trump rally gets physically attacked after they disrupt the rally by a male who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a “fat guy” https://t.co/DI1TG2uGBH
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 12, 2026
Trump’s hesitation to condemn his advocates’ violence (and in most cases, his choice to motivate itis clearly absolutely nothing brand-newThe failure to deal with violence that unfolds before his own eyes is still outrageous habits from any leader– let alone the president of the United States.
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On the project path in Ohio, President Donald Trump chose that matching Senator Jon Husted’s posterior was a winning method.
“I do not do this with males really typically. I began analyzing his body. And I looked and I enjoyed up and down. I saw his ass and I took a look at the entire. And after that I took a look at his hands. Take a look at his hands, he’s got these, like, claws. And I got it. You are an excellent professional athlete. I didn’t understand that since he does not discuss that. Congratulations, now they lastly understand. That was excellent,” Trump stated
Trump on Jon Husted: “I don’t do this with men very often. I started examining his body, because I didn’t know he was a great athlete … I looked at his ass” https://t.co/VD8jJpireB[
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 12, 2026
Trump didn’t stop at Husted’s derrière. He likewise applauded the senator’s jawline, including, “hy was he such an excellent footballer? Take a look at the jawline, he’s hard as hell.”
It’s uncertain that Husted will value the remarks, since the citizens in Ohio do not rank his posterior as one of their leading problems. Husted remains in a tight race with Democratic challenger and previous three-term Senator Sherrod Brown, with the most current surveys revealing the 2 in a dead heat. The truth that Trump is even campaigning for Husted is a big fracture in the GOP’s armor, as Trump won the state in the last 3 governmental elections
Based upon the nation’s present anti-Trump belief from the Iran war, whimsical tariffs, and abysmal economy arising from both, Democrats might retake both homes of Congress and toss Husted out on his obviously shapely behind in November. Why Trump believes that talking up the incumbent senator’s keister is the essential to triumph is anyone’s guess, although senility and cognitive decrease entered your mind. Instead of provide Husted a slap on the back, the president’s remarks are most likely to make both of them the butt of lots of jokes.
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