MAGA Firebrand Kari Lake has been named because the Trump Administration’s senior adviser to the U.S. Company for World Media (USAGM), the company that oversees Voice of America, the federal government’s worldwide information community.
Lake was sworn into the place on Monday. The Gateway Pundit has obtained an electronic mail that Lake despatched on Sunday to all employees on the company, the place she declared a return to the aim of “working effectively and truthfully to cowl this consequential second in our nation’s historical past.”
Lake will quickly oversee Voice of America because the director. President Trump announced in December that Lake would take over the community after a brand new USAGM CEO is confirmed, which may very well be a years-long course of. The VOA Director is chosen by the USAGM CEO and Worldwide Broadcasting Advisory Board.
Nevertheless, Lake’s new position seems to be a masterful method for the White Home to get Lake began instantly in an much more highly effective position throughout the company.
Lake has vowed to revive equity and accuracy to VOA and the far-left USAGM.
At the moment, the group is totally embedded with leftwing activists.
The present Voice of America Director, Michael Abramowitz, is an anti-Trump Lunatic who penned a scathing January 6 editorial in 2022, the place he accused President Trump of “disregard for constitutional checks and balances, anticorruption safeguards, and the human rights of immigrants and asylum seekers” and attacking Democracy.
The far-left op-ed claimed, “The president of the USA—enabled by his most radical or sycophantic supporters—engaged in a brazen try and overturn the 2020 election outcomes and stay in energy in defiance of the structure and the need of the folks,” whereas calling for the sham January 6 Committee investigating Trump to make use of its “essential window of alternative.”
One other instance of that is former VOA White Home Chief and worldwide reporter Steve Herman, who goes below the X deal with @W7VOA. He lately attacked President Trump, pushing a story that Trump’s plan to defund USAID “makes People much less secure at dwelling and overseas.”
Trump advisor and former Director of Nationwide Intelligence Ric Grenell referred to as out Herman, who receives particular safety clearances and a authorities title however makes use of his platform to “work towards the official U.S. authorities insurance policies whereas being paid by US taxpayers.”
“It isn’t an excessive amount of to recommend that is treasonous,” Grenell stated, including that Herman “must be instantly fired.”
Aren’t you a taxpayer funded “reporter” for @voa?
Why are you working towards President Trump’s reform plans for the U.S. price range?
You weren’t elected.
It isn’t an excessive amount of to recommend that is treasonous. You don’t get to work towards the official U.S. authorities insurance policies whereas… https://t.co/P8Egpx9PJV
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 9, 2025
Division of Authorities Effectivity head Elon Musk chimed in on the alternate, calling to close down Radio Free Europe and Voice of America, noting, “It’s simply radical left loopy folks speaking to themselves whereas torching $1B/12 months of US taxpayer cash.”
Sure, shut them down.
1. Europe is free now (not counting stifling forms). Hiya??
2. No person listens to them anymore.
3. It’s simply radical left loopy folks speaking to themselves whereas torching $1B/12 months of US taxpayer cash. https://t.co/PnmN4erD91
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2025
However Lake has defended the company, calling it a “weapon” within the data struggle and saying that it’s “value making an attempt to save lots of.”
In an electronic mail to USAGM employees on Monday she informed employees she will likely be “reforming and modernizing the company into one thing the American individuals are prepared to assist.” With Kari Lake in a lead position on the company, we could be assured that far-left activism will likely be taken out of the newsroom, waste will likely be minimize, President Trump’s govt orders will likely be adopted to a T, and taxpayer {dollars} will likely be put to good use.
Lake introduced Monday morning that she was sworn in, saying, “Wanting ahead to serving America, streamlining the USA Company of World Media and every part it oversees.”
I acquired sworn in as we speak
Wanting ahead to serving America, streamlining the USA Company of World Media and every part it oversees. pic.twitter.com/cqDSGEC6VA
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) March 3, 2025
The e-mail she despatched to all employees reads:
Topic: A Message from Kari Lake
I’m delighted to be becoming a member of the USA Company for World Media because the Senior Advisor for the Administration, and I’m honored President Trump has chosen me to serve on this position overseeing the company, its retailers, and grantees.
We’ve got an vital mission: “inform, have interaction, and join folks all over the world in assist of freedom and democracy.” It doesn’t get a lot greater than that.
As President John F. Kennedy stated on the twentieth anniversary of Voice of America—our activity is “to inform America’s story all over the world” and to take action in a method that’s truthful. That is still our job as we speak.
A few of it’s possible you’ll know, I had a 30-year profession as an expert broadcast journalist protecting Arizona, America, and past. I’m married to an unbelievable photojournalist and videographer. So, I perceive the challenges confronted by those that cowl information each in entrance of and behind the digicam, and I’ve immense respect for the women and men who do the job with honesty and integrity.
Sadly, journalism is experiencing darkish days proper now. The general public has misplaced virtually all belief within the media. For these studying this—it’s essential we acknowledge our company is funded by hardworking American taxpayers, a lot of whom are struggling to make ends meet. Which means we’ve got an added duty to revive their belief whereas working effectively and truthfully to cowl this consequential second in our nation’s historical past.
In my new position at USAGM I’m dedicated to rapidly reforming and modernizing the company into one thing the American individuals are prepared to assist. I sit up for working with you.
Kari Lake
