(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump stated on Wednesday he would select Kari Lake, a former information anchor and hardline Republican who didn’t win a seat within the Arizona Senate final month, as director of the state-funded media outlet. US Government Voice. of America.
Trump, in a submit on his Truth Social web site, stated Lake will “be certain that American values of liberty and freedom are conveyed world wide FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, in contrast to lies unfold by pretend information media.”
Lake, a robust Trump supporter who has echoed his false claims of fraud within the 2020 election, additionally misplaced the race for governor in swing state Arizona in 2022 and was beforehand a bunch at Phoenix-based Fox 10 .
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Voice of America (VOA) is a world multimedia broadcaster working in additional than 40 languages on-line, on radio and tv.
During his first time period, Trump clashed with VOA and accused it of amplifying Chinese propaganda after it confirmed a section of a light-weight present marking the reopening of Wuhan, town the place the pandemic first emerged of coronavirus.
(Reporting by Costas Pitas; Editing by Eric Beech)
