did not pass, were  somewhat inconsequential  because she would not need to be a barred attorney while living in China.

Zacharia, who has been under scrutiny for calling herself a  lawyer,  said she consulted several legal experts to ensure that title was accurate when offering legal analysis.

 It's unfortunate that people dub this as some kind of conspiracy or want to put me in a camp. The truth is, I was very careful how I executed this, and I never came across as someone who was an attorney-at-law. 

She will not weigh in on legal matters in her White House capacity, Zacharia said.

She says she didn't lobby for the job

She also divulged details of how she went about securing the White House press secretary job. Zacharia stressed that she did not want to be seen as lobbying for the position, left vacant when Karoline Leavitt announced she would depart the administration to spend more time with her family.

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Zacharia, who was a communications adviser for the company that runs Truth Social, said she closely monitored the president's social media posts to determine what was top of mind for him, then would go on air to talk about those topics.

 My philosophy is, I'm on TV enough where if he sees me and he likes me, then I will be recruited for the job. I do not believe that lobbying for that job would have been successful, and I wanted to work for it. I wanted to audition for it. 

Then on Oct. 7, as Zacharia was preparing to take one of her children to a pumpkin patch, she received a phone call from Trump about the press secretary position.

She promptly flew out the next day from her home in California to Washington, met with the president about the job on Friday and formally accepted the position later that day.