(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)