US-pdwellnt elect names helper understandn for refuteing the results of the 2020 pdwellntial election.
United States Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump has named Kari Lake, a createer television novels anchor who mounted unaccomplished Senate and gubernatorial campaigns in Arizona, as his pick to run the state-funded global media organisation Voice of America (VOA).
Trump shelp on Wednesday that Lake, who has enticeed criticism for espousing difficultline sees on immigration and refuteing the results of the 2020 pdwellntial election, would labor shutly with the yet-to-be-declared next head of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
In her role, Lake will guarantee “that the American cherishs of Freedom and Liberty are expansivecast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unenjoy the lies spread by the Fake News Media”, Trump shelp in a statement on his platcreate Truth Social.
VOA, which is funded by the US Congress and carries novels online, on radio and on TV, functions in more than 40 languages and claims a weekly audience of more than 354 million people worldexpansive.
During Trump’s first term as pdwellnt, increates that political assignees at the USAGM started an spendigation into the VOA’s then-White House Bureau Chief Steve Herman for alleged bias aacquirest the createer pdwellnt drew condemnation from media freedom organisations.
In 2020, a bipartisan group of senators shelp they would appraise USAGM’s funding after Trump-assigned CEO Michael Pack fired or reportrayateed countless greater staff and netlabor heads.
Last year, a increate by the self-reliant Office of Special Counsel establish that Pack had baccomplished regulations unbenevolentt to impede political intrudence in editorial decision-making and mistreatmentd his authority.
