唐纳德·特朗普的新任白宫新闻秘书表示，她将与媒体互动的程度以及是否会为记者举行简报会“尚不清楚”，因为她正面临日益增加的关于其法律资质的质疑。
Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary says it is “unknown” how much she will engage with the press or hold briefings with reporters, as she faces mounting questions over her legal credentials.
在周四接受《卫报》简短采访时，凯蒂·扎卡里亚详细描述了她接替前任卡罗琳·利维特成为美国总统首席发言人的匆忙过程。
In a brief interview with the Guardian on Thursday, Katie Zacharia detailed the whirlwind sprint to replace her predecessor Karoline Leavitt as the US president’s chief spokesperson.
就在收到白宫电话六天后，扎卡里亚就在讲台后进行了她作为新闻秘书的首次简报，这次首次亮相广受批评。
Just six days after receiving a call from the White House, Zacharia stepped behind the podium for her first briefing as press secretary, in a debut that has been widely panned.
上周三，10月7日，一名白宫官员致电扎卡里亚，要求她从居住在洛杉矶的家中前往华盛顿参加会议。（她拒绝透露是谁打来的电话。）扎卡里亚次日便动身前往华盛顿，并在周五于宾夕法尼亚大道会见官员。她当天晚些时候被提供了该职位——并接受了。
Last Wednesday, 7 October, a White House official called Zacharia and asked her to travel from Los Angeles, where she lives with her family, to Washington for a meeting. (She declined to specify who made the call.) Zacharia made the trip the following day, before meeting officials on Pennsylvania Avenue on Friday. She was offered the job later that day – and accepted.
“我飞回家，收拾了两个行李箱，向孩子们、丈夫和狗打了招呼，”扎卡里亚说，随后她于周日返回华盛顿，为周一的第一天上班做准备。
“I flew home, packed two bags, said hi to my kids and husband and dogs,” Zacharia said, before returning to Washington on Sunday ahead of her first day on Monday.
但她的首次简报——她表示这是她上岗第二天“被要求”进行的——被批评为平淡乏味。
But her first briefing, which Zacharia said she was “asked to do” on her second day in the job, was criticized as lackluster.
此后，她因声称的法律资质而受到密切审查。在周二的首次简报后，记者们要求扎卡里亚说出她通过律师资格考试的州。“当我搬到中国时”，她回答道。
And she has since faced intense scrutiny over her claimed legal qualifications. After her debut briefing on Tuesday, reporters asked Zacharia to name the state where she passed the bar exam. “When I moved to China”, she replied.
她后来告诉《纽约时报》，自己是在南草坪海军陆战队一号直升机的噪音中“听错了”问题，以为记者问的是：“你法学院毕业后去了哪里？”然而，她并未向《纽约时报》确认自己是否通过了律师资格考试。根据她的领英个人资料，2011年毕业于佩珀代因大学法学院后，扎卡里亚在2011年至2013年期间曾是北京市中伦律师事务所的“助理律师”。
She later told the New York Times she had “misheard” the question over the sound of Marine One on the South Lawn and thought the reporter had asked: “Where were you after law school?”However, she did not confirm to the Times whether she had passed the bar exam. According to her LinkedIn profile, after graduating from Pepperdine University’s law school in 2011, Zacharia was an “associate” at the Beijing law firm Zhong Lun from 2011 to 2013.
本周，《华尔街日报》援引知情人士的消息称，扎卡里亚从法学院毕业后未能通过加利福尼亚州的律师资格考试。
This week, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter, that Zacharia failed the California bar exam after graduating from law school.
加利福尼亚州律师协会向《卫报》表示，无论是用她的婚后姓氏还是娘家姓凯蒂·布莱克，该协会均无记录显示她获得了该州的律师执业资格。尽管特朗普称扎卡里亚为“律师”，但这一头衔仅授予那些获得执业许可的人。
The State Bar of California told the Guardian it had no record of Zacharia being licensed in the state under either her married name or her maiden name, Katie Black. While Trump has referred to Zacharia as an “attorney”, that title is reserved for those licensed to practice law.
周四，在另一场接受保守派媒体《Human Events》的采访时，扎卡里亚向右翼意见领袖杰克·波索比克承认自己确实未通过加利福尼亚州的律师考试。她称当时自己“心绪纷乱、压力巨大，同时又兴奋不已”，因为与丈夫维持了一年多的异地恋后，终于能前往他工作的中国与他团聚。
In a different interview with the conservative outlet Human Events on Thursday, Zacharia acknowledged to the rightwing influencer Jack Posobiec that she didn’t pass the California bar. At the time, she said she was “distracted and overwhelmed and excited” to join her new husband in China, where he was working, after being in a long-distance relationship for more than a year.
据知情人士透露，扎卡里亚坚持称自己为律师，并认为这一称谓是“合理的”，理由是她拥有法学学位以及“国际交易法律方面的经验”。该人士还称，扎卡里亚在自称律师前曾“咨询过其他法律专业人士”，之后才做出这一决定；她还强调自己“从未提供过法律建议”，只是做过“法律分析”而已。
A person familiar with the matter said Zacharia “stands by” referring to herself as a lawyer, and that she considered the designation a “valid title”, given her law degree and “international transactional law experience”. She did so after “consulting with other legal professionals and attorneys” about whether it was an appropriate designation, the source claimed, adding that Zacharia had “never given legal advice”; just “legal analysis”.
不过，许多法律专家指出，“律师”与“法律顾问”这两个称谓经常被混用。周三，非营利监督机构“问责运动”要求加利福尼亚州律师协会调查扎卡里亚自称律师的行为是否属于误导公众，以及是否违反了州法律。
However, many legal experts note that “lawyer” and “attorney” are often used interchangeably. On Wednesday, the Campaign for Accountability, a non-profit watchdog organization, asked the State Bar of California to investigate whether Zacharia misled the public, and potentially violated state law, by describing herself as a lawyer.
在中国生活结束后，扎卡里亚的领英资料出现了长达10年的空白期。《连线》杂志周四报道称，在此期间她曾担任贝奇博迪公司的“联盟营销员”；她向该杂志形容这家采用多层次营销模式的公司“有点像传销组织”。
After her time in China, there is a 10-year gap on Zacharia’s LinkedIn profile. Wired reported on Thursday that during that period she worked as an “affiliate marketer” for Beachbody, a multi-level marketing company she described to the outlet as “sort of a pyramid scheme”.
她后来声称自己曾担任“总法律顾问”职务，为由理查德·格雷内尔创立的保守派组织“加州修复”工作。格雷内尔是特朗普的长期盟友，也是特殊使命特别总统特使。卫报已联系中伦律所和加州修复，以获取有关扎卡里亚在这些组织中的法律职务的更多细节。
She later claims to have served as “general counsel” for Fix California, a conservative group founded by Richard Grenell, a longtime Trump ally and the special presidential envoy for special missions. The Guardian has approached both Zhong Lun and Fix California seeking additional details about Zacharia’s legal roles at the organizations.
扎卡里亚还表示，她“并不想被视为在为新闻秘书职位进行游说”，在她接受保守派媒体《人类事件》采访时如此说道。相反，她说她在出席保守派脱口秀节目以“试镜”该职位之前，一直密切关注特朗普的社交媒体帖子。
Zacharia also said she “did not want to be seen lobbying” for the press secretary role, in her interview with the conservative outlet Human Events. Instead, she said she closely monitored Trump’s social media posts before appearing on conservative talkshows to “audition” for the job.
当特朗普宣布扎卡里亚被任命为该职位时，他形容她是一名“忠诚的MAGA粉丝”，她“拥有无瑕的支持记录，并且从一开始就是一位忠诚且杰出的支持者”。
When Trump announced that Zacharia had been tapped for the post, he described her as a “devoted fan of Maga” who has “an unblemished record of support, and has been a loyal and brilliant supporter, right from the beginning”.
卫报询问白宫为何向她提供该职位的原因时，扎卡里亚——此前曾担任特朗普媒体集团顾问，该集团拥有总统的Truth Social平台，并曾短暂担任国土安全部发言人——拒绝置评。
Asked by the Guardian what reasons the White House gave for offering her the position, Zacharia – who previously served as an adviser to Trump Media Group, which owns the president’s Truth Social platform, and had a brief stint as a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security – declined to comment.
如今担任白宫新闻秘书的她，也在周四未能澄清她计划多久向媒体通报一次情况。她说这目前“尚未确定”，并表示特朗普“是他最好的发言人，我将根据需要进行互动”。“我会跟随总统的领导，”扎卡里亚补充道。
Now the White House press secretary, she also would not clarify on Thursday how often she intended to brief the press. She said that was “unknown at this time” and that Trump “is his best spokesperson, and I will interact as needed”. “I follow the president’s lead,” Zacharia added.