(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would choose Kari Lake, a former news anchor and hardline Republican who failed to win an Arizona Senate seat last month last, to become director of the American government-funded media Voice. of America.
Trump, in a message on his Truth Social website, said Lake “will ensure that American values of liberty and freedom are delivered to the world fairly and accurately, contrary to the lies spread by the fake media.”
Lake, a staunch Trump supporter who echoed his false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, also lost the gubernatorial race in the swing state of Arizona in 2022 and was previously a point d anchor of Fox 10, based in Phoenix.
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Voice of America (VOA) is an international media broadcaster that operates in more than 40 languages online, on radio and television.
During his first term, Trump clashed with VOA and accused it of amplifying Chinese propaganda after it showed a segment of a light show marking the reopening of Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus pandemic is appeared for the first time.
(Reporting by Costas Pitas; editing by Eric Beech)
