‘I Am Honored’: Trump Taps Kari Lake for Huge Position Where She Can Shine
President-elect Donald Trump made another great pick for his incoming administration.
On Wednesday, Trump told his followers on Truth Social that Kari Lake would become the Director of Voice of America.
Trump described Lake as, “a beloved News Anchor in Arizona, which supported me by record margins, for over 20 years.”
The position does seem ideal for the former anchor turned politician who became a prominent name among MAGA supporters during her 2022 Arizona gubernatorial bid and 2024 senate race opposite incumbent Democrat Sen. Rubin Gallego.
According to its website, VOA was created in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda and has since grown to an international network being broadcast in almost 50 languages to over 354 million people.
Axios states its funding comes from the U.S. Agency for Global Media — Trump mentions he will announce the next head of this agency soon — and that its charter requires VOA to report, “accurate, objective, and comprehensive” news internationally.
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