Trump nominates hard-hitting Republican Kari Lake to lead Voice of America

(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is picking Kari Lake, a former media lobbyist and Republican stalwart who failed to win a seat in the Arizona Senate last month, to become director of the U.S. government-funded news agency. American.

Trump, in another place on his Social Truth site, said Lake “will ensure that the American values ​​of Freedom and Liberty are spread around the world FAIRLY and SAFELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media.”

Lake, a staunch Trump supporter who repeated his false claims in the 2020 election, also lost the 2022 governor’s race in Arizona and was a former anchor at Phoenix-based Fox 10.

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Voice of America (VOA) is a global broadcaster that operates in more than 40 languages ​​online, radio and television.

During his first term in office, Trump clashed with VOA and accused it of promoting Chinese propaganda after it aired a segment on a demonstration that marked the opening of Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged.

(Reporting by Costas Pitas; Editing by Eric Beech)

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