But asked on Tuesday where she passed the bar exam, Trump looked back at his new press secretary and asked her, “Which state?” “When I moved to China,” she said.

After graduating from Pepperdine University’s Caruso School of Law in 2011, Zacharia worked for Chinese firm Zhong Lun, where she has previously claimed she worked as an “outside counsel” to the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. “It was an interesting and exciting experience,” she told The Buck Sexton Show last year.

She is not listed with the State Bar of California, where she lives. She also does not appear on the state’s list of attorneys under her maiden name. An attorney with an identical name who does appear on the state’s list works for the Department of Child Support Services.

Her LinkedIn does not list any experience as an attorney except for 15 months as general counsel with Fix California, a right-wing nonprofit group founded by Richard Grenell, who previously served as acting director of national intelligence during the first Trump administration. Grenell was appointed “presidential envoy for special missions” in Trump’s second term.