凯蒂·扎卡里亚不会像她的一位同事本周所预测的那样，被铭记为白宫新闻室的“史上最佳”之一，但她将载入总统新闻秘书史册。她在该职位上的五天任期轻松击败了之前由安东尼·斯卡拉穆奇保持的纪录——他在特朗普总统第一任期期间，在总统传讯办公室工作了11天。扎卡里亚在讲台上开启她的任职时，先是宣布了一则重大新闻：金伯利·吉尔福伊尔将不再担任美国驻希腊大使，但她很快自己就成为了新闻焦点，因为外界对她的法律职业生涯产生了质疑。
Katie Zacharia won’t be remembered as one of the “all-time greats” in the White House press room, as one of her colleagues predicted this week, but she will go down in the annals of presidential press secretary history. Her tenure of five days in the role easily beats the previous record held by Anthony Scaramucci, who spent 11 days in President Trump’s communications shop during his first term. Zacharia kicked off her time at the podium with some big news, announcing the departure of Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. ambassador to Greece, but she quickly became the news as questions swirled over her legal career.
事情的经过如下：特朗普在周一（联邦假日）宣布，扎卡里亚将在次日举行她的首场新闻发布会。他在Truth Social上写道：“凯蒂从一开始就在精神上与我同在，她一定会做得非常出色！”在被任命之前，她曾是Truth Social的高级传播顾问，在此之前还曾短暂担任国土安全部的发言人。周一下午，特朗普离开白宫前往俄亥俄州参加露营集会时，扎卡里亚被看到站在南草坪上，但她留在了白宫。
Here’s how it all went down: Trump announced on Monday, a federal holiday, that Zacharia would be holding her first press briefing the next day. “Katie has been with me, in spirit, from the very beginning, and will do a fantastic job!” he wrote on Truth Social. Before the appointment, she was the senior communications adviser to Truth Social, after having briefly served as a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security. Zacharia was seen on the South Lawn as Trump departed for a camping rally in Ohio on Monday afternoon but stayed behind at the White House.
她当天就收到了最初的简报材料。扎卡里亚在座无虚席的记者面前举行了她的首场新闻发布会。开场有些磕磕绊绊，她断断续续地念着稿子，还不小心把她的丈夫泰勒·扎卡里亚称为“我的总统”。她宣布了吉尔福伊尔的重大新闻，这引发了随后的新闻周期，但她只讲了大约14分钟，并且只接受了三家保守倾向媒体的提问。
She received her initial briefing materials that same day. Zacharia held her first press briefing before a packed room of journalists. It was a shaky opening, as she haltingly read from a script and accidentally referred to her husband, Tyler Zacharia, as “my president.”She broke the major news about Guilfoyle, which led the ensuing news cycle, but only spoke for roughly 14 minutes and took questions from three conservative-leaning outlets.
几分钟之内，批评者就开始质疑扎卡里亚是否胜任这份工作，但她的支持者表示，在压力巨大的新闻室进行首次亮相时紧张是可以理解的。当天下午，一位记者问特朗普，他的新新闻秘书——她经常自称是律师——是在哪里通过的律师资格考试。
Within minutes, critics were asking if Zacharia was up for the job, but her defenders said the nerves were to be expected during her first outing in the pressure-packed press room. That afternoon, a reporter asked Trump where his new press secretary, who often touted herself as a lawyer, passed the bar exam.
他转身面对站在他身后、在白宫外的扎卡里亚作答。她回答说：“当我搬到中国时。”通讯《Popular Information》此前曾就她的法律职业提出质疑，报道称未在任何地方发现她通过律师资格考试的记录。白宫表示，扎卡里亚在毕业于佩珀代因大学法学院后，随丈夫搬到了中国。她曾在电视上自称是律师，而特朗普在宣布她将担任该职位时也称她为律师。
He turned around to Zacharia, standing behind him outside the White House, to answer. She responded, “when I moved to China.”The newsletter Popular Information has previously raised questions about her legal career, reporting that no record was found of her passing a bar exam anywhere. The White House said Zacharia moved to China with her husband after graduating from Pepperdine University’s law school. She had referred to herself as a lawyer on TV previously, and Trump called her an attorney when he announced she would be taking the position.
她的领英账号显示，她在2011年8月至2013年6月期间在北京中伦律师事务所担任助理律师，并在2024年至2025年期间担任Fix California的总法律顾问。这两项简历内容在接下来的几天里将成为众人热议的话题。《华尔街日报》周三报道称，她在2011年法学院毕业后参加了加州律师资格考试但未通过。问责运动（Campaign for Accountability）周三向加州律师协会提交投诉，要求调查扎卡里亚声称自己是律师的行为是否违反州法律。
Her LinkedIn account shows she worked as an associate at the Zhong Lun Law Firm in Beijing from August 2011 to June 2013 and was general counsel of Fix California from 2024-2025. Both resumé items would become the subject of much chatter in the days ahead. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that she sat for the California bar exam after graduating from law school in 2011 but didn’t pass. The Campaign for Accountability filed a complaint with the State Bar of California on Wednesday asking for an investigation into whether Zacharia’s claims of being a lawyer broke state law.
投诉指出，如果报道属实——即扎卡里亚“反复向公众声称自己有资格执业，尽管她没有执业许可”——这可能构成加州法律下的犯罪。白宫对此予以反驳，传播总监史蒂文· chung 称问责运动为“由患有严重特朗普错位综合征的狂热无知者运营的激进左翼组织”。扎卡里亚在中国的经历也成为焦点。《国会山报》援引法律专家的话称，虽然她可能在中国律师事务所工作，但这并不一定意味着她是律师。
The complaint notes that if the reporting is accurate — that Zacharia has “repeatedly held herself out to the public as entitled to practice law without a license to do so” — it could be a crime under California law. The White House pushed back on the complaint, with communications director Steven Cheung calling Campaign for Accountability a “radical leftist-organization run by rabid numbskulls suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Zacharia’s time in China also came under the spotlight. Legal experts told The Hill that while she may have worked at a law firm in China, that didn’t necessarily make her a lawyer.
扎卡里亚周四进行了辩护，接受了两家保守派媒体的采访。她在《Real America’s Voice》节目中告诉杰克·波索比亚克，她没有时间在动荡的周二简报会之前做好充分准备。
Zacharia went on defense Thursday, with a pair of interviews on conservative outlets. She told Jack Posobiac on Real America’s Voice that she didn’t have time to get fully prepared ahead of the shaky Tuesday briefing.
“我之前从未接受过完整的简报，而我出去后亲自完成了简报，”她说。“考虑到他是他自己最好的发言人，让简报保持简短绝对是我的目标，”她补充道，指的是特朗普。她说，初始简报材料是在周一晚上交给她的，但直到周二上午8点才最终完成，比她上午9:30参加简报早不到两个小时。她说她从凌晨3点就开始准备了。
"I never had a full briefing beforehand, and I went out and I effectuated the briefing," she said. "It was absolutely my goal to keep it short, considering he is his own best spokesperson,” she added of Trump. She said the initial briefing materials were given to her on Monday evening, but only finalized on Tuesday at 8 a.m., less than two hours before she appeared for the 9:30 a.m. briefing. She said she had been up since 3 a.m. preparing.
她告诉波索比亚克，她的律师资格考试结果“某种程度上无关紧要”，因为她知道自己将要搬到中国。“搬到中国后，我并没有真的太在意律师考试的结果，也没有把它当作需要专注的事情，”她说。“人们把这称为某种阴谋论，或者想把我归入某个阵营，这很不幸，”她说。“事实是，我在执行这件事时非常谨慎，我从未表现出自己是一名执业律师的样子。”
She told Posobiac that the results of her bar exam were “somewhat inconsequential” because she knew she’d be moving to China. “After moving to China, I didn't really think much of the bar results or consider that something that I needed to focus on,” she said. "It's unfortunate that people dub this as some kind of conspiracy or want to put me in a camp,” she said. “The truth is, I was very careful how I executed this, and I never came across as someone who was an attorney-at-law."
周四晚上，扎卡里亚在福克斯新闻频道面对出人意料的敌对的肖恩·汉尼蒂。“你称之为阴谋论，与成为一名律师有关，”汉尼蒂说，引用了扎卡里亚与波索比亚克的采访，指出他说的15条社交媒体帖子“你在这些帖子中将自己标识为律师。”“我认为这些是转发，我已经更正了记录，”她回应道。扎卡里亚周五上午再次出现在福克斯新闻频道，再次遭遇艰难提问。
Zacharia faced a surprisingly hostile Sean Hannity on Fox News on Thursday evening. “You called it a conspiracy theory as it relates to being a lawyer,” Hannity said, referencing the interview Zacharia did with Posobiac, pointing out what he said were 15 social media posts “where you identify yourself as an attorney.”“I think they were retweets, and I corrected the record,” she responded. Zacharia appeared on Fox News again Friday morning and was again met with tough questions.
《福克斯与朋友》节目主持人劳伦斯·琼斯问她在招聘过程中是否应该向白宫透露自己的法律资格。“这些问题根本没有被问到，”她说。“我是被聘为白宫新闻秘书，而不是白宫法律顾问。”
"Fox & Friends" host Lawrence Jones asked if she should have told the White House about her legal qualifications during the hiring process. “Those questions weren't asked,” she said. “I'm being hired as White House press secretary, not White House counsel. The conversations and the reason I was — the reason that I was hired was to represent the president in the press.”
这些对话以及我被雇佣的原因 — — 我被雇佣的原因是代表总统面向媒体。”她说，“主流媒体想把焦点和注意力放在我身上，因为他们希望转移人们对特朗普总统为美国取得的重大成就的关注。”如果这些采访旨在赢得特朗普的支持，那显然没有成功。周五晚些时候，特朗普在离开白宫前对记者说，他告诉扎卡里亚“重新考虑”她的角色。
She said the “legacy media wants to put the focus and attention on me because they wanted to be distracted from the major wins that President Trump is making for America.”If the interviews were meant to win over Trump, it didn’t work. Later Friday, Trump told reporters before departing the White House that he told Zacharia to “reconsider” the role.
“我说，‘老实说，如果我是你，我会重新考虑，’”特朗普周五对记者说，指的是他之前与扎卡里亚的一次谈话。“我说，‘你可以想想，但我会重新考虑，’”他继续说道。几分钟后，传出她即将离职的首批报道。一位白宫官员表示，她正在“过渡离开”该职位。扎卡里亚尚未发表任何公开评论，也没有回应《国会山报》的置评请求。
“I said, ‘Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider,'” Trump told reporters Friday, referring to a conversation he said he had with Zacharia earlier. “I said, ‘You think about it, but I would reconsider,'” he continued. Minutes later came the first reports that she was out of the job. A White House official said she was “transitioning out” of the role. Zacharia hasn’t made any public comments, and did not respond to a request for comment from The Hill.
一位知情人士告诉《国会山报》，扎卡里亚原定于周五晚上前往副总统万斯及第二夫人乌莎·万斯的住所，与他们共进晚餐。
A source familiar told The Hill that Zacharia was to join Vice President Vance and second lady Usha Vance for dinner at their residence Friday evening.