r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 8d ago

No Paywall ‘She Can Barely Read’: New Trump Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Faceplants in First Briefing

https://www.commondreams.org/news/katie-zacharia-debut-briefing
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u/PhilDGlass California 8d ago

I mean she also had great maga qualifications; Brietbart, NewsMax, Fox, law degree from, um, China.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Kinks369 8d ago

Ask her to speak Chinese. Not that it even matters given law degrees in other countries mean nothing to the US. But can she even speak Chinese or have a documented history of living and studying there??

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u/doodle02 8d ago

whoah, calm down there. let’s have her prove she can speak english first.

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u/fireandiceman 8d ago

I think she passed being able to speak English but it's kinda looking like they are going for expendable press secretaries now

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u/CalmTheAngryVoice Washington 8d ago

There's no one in MAGAland who's not expendable.

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u/Hardwired_lavamantis 8d ago

Just the cult leader. Pretty sure it falls apart when that day arrives.

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u/CalmTheAngryVoice Washington 6d ago

Not a chance. These people crave an authoritarian leader and will create one if one doesn't exist. Of course, it's ironic because they'll complain about government overreach, but as we've all seen, "government overreach" only means "being forced to do things I don't like" to them.

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u/Dr_DoesNothing 7d ago

Nah it's just the ones that look enough like Ivanka to get a rise out of him in the morning.

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u/ManfromMonroe Pennsylvania 7d ago

Are we back to measuring in Scaramuchi’s yet?

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u/Fast-Garbage-4781 7d ago

Wait... you call that sputtering nonsense she did, "english"?

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u/Reasonable-Leg-2002 7d ago

I’d be surprised if she wasn’t already fired

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u/kapeman_ 7d ago

Whoa is right

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u/sodapopkevin 8d ago

Someone, I think it was on Substack, checked all 50 states plus DC and she hasn't passed the bar anywhere in the US.

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u/HapticSloughton 8d ago

And just a reminder that the Trump Administration wants to strip law school oversight from the American Bar Association, since no MAGA lawyer can pass the bar in under five attempts.

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u/Gentelman_Asshole 7d ago

"..And before we hire your law firm do you have any personnel that graduated from this list."

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u/tacoetr 7d ago

Law?

Laws?

WTF are those?

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u/caribou16 8d ago

She was told there would be no fact checking.

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u/Flaxmoore Michigan 7d ago

Yep. Professional degrees are very limited. I’m a doc. Licensed in Michigan and Ohio. But if I’m ten feet into Indiana? I can’t practice. Even getting a perfect bar score in China doesn’t confer bar rights in the US.

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u/thirdouting 7d ago

speak a lil Chinese for em, Katie

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u/Honest_World_3561 7d ago

I would seriously doubt she could handle the complexities of Mandarin.

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u/marketingguy420 8d ago

Her law degree is from America. She worked in China after getting it. I'm sure quite poorly.

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u/glen_ko_ko 7d ago

Madarin, Cantonese, or???

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u/Asleep-Sprinkles4616 8d ago

Her law degree is from Pepperdine. She mentioned China when asked in which state she passed the bar exam.

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u/StoppableHulk 7d ago

Ok well thats a cookie company so clearly fake

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u/Confident-Seesaw-707 7d ago

Pepperdine Farms remembers

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u/8549176320 7d ago

Pepperdine Farms remberders

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u/StoppableHulk 7d ago

RFK gonna take you to Pepperdine Farms, son.

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u/Enteroids 7d ago

No, you are thinking of Pepperdine University. It should be Peppermint Farms.

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u/kent_eh Canada 8d ago

I mean she also had great maga qualifications;

Blonde?

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 8d ago

Blonde with no credentials, awful makeup, and back alley lip injections.

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u/Fast-Garbage-4781 7d ago

Trying to force back alley abortions to be a thing again.

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u/sk8tergater 7d ago

Bottle blonde

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u/El_Fez Washington 8d ago

Underage

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u/StoppableHulk 7d ago

Ok well thats a cookie company so clearly fake