Trump picks hardline Republican Kari Lake to lead Voice of America

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was picking Kari Lake, a former news anchor and a hardline Republican who failed to win an Arizona Senate seat last month, to be the director of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America.

Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site, said Lake will "ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media."

Lake, a strong Trump supporter who has echoed his false claims about fraud at the 2020 election, also lost the governor's race in swing state Arizona in 2022 and was previously an anchor at Phoenix-based Fox 10.

Voice of America (VOA) is an international media broadcaster that operates in more than 40 languages online and on radio and television.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-picks-hardline-republican-kari-lake-lead-voice-america-2024-12-12/

[dweller]

1. WTF ?

Not the Onion
Not Borowitz Report





✌🏻

[highplainsdem]

3. I wish.

[rsdsharp]

2. I thought she was going to be ambassador to Mexico.

[highplainsdem]

4. No. Trump picked Ron Johnson (NOT the senator - a former ambassador to El Salvador) for that yesterday.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/11/trump-names-ron-johnson-mexico-ambassador-its-not-wisconsin-senator/76918423007/

[HUAJIAO]

10. LOL

[rsdsharp]

11. It wasn't a joke.

[Jack Valentino]

5. On the bright side, she won't be "on-air talent"--

at least I hope not.


Instead she'll probably just eliminate every language but English---

"if they can't speak English, they shouldn't be listening to the Voice Of America anyway!"

[NJCher]

6. there's a spot for every loser

in the trump administration.

[msongs]

7. one suspects voa may be just a shell of its former self in importance nt

[Chipper Chat]

8. Tokyo Rosa.

[dalton99a]

9. Now she can broadcast her conspiracy theories to the darkest corners of the world