Trump official pressures admin to arrest president's targets in expletive-filled rant

President Donald Trump's Agency for Global Media director went on Newsmax this week to rage against the people who criminally investigated President Donald Trump — and called for them to be imprisoned for life.

Kari Lake, a former Phoenix-area news anchor who has run unsuccessfully for statewide office in Arizona twice on a MAGA platform, made the comments during a segment on David Harris' "The Pulse" about the allegations of benefits fraud schemes in Minnesota, which have reached fever pitch as Republicans scramble to attack Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, despite the actual evidence on the ground painting a very different picture of what really happened.

“They dragged Roger Stone out of his house,” she said. “They raided Mar-a-Lago. They attacked President Trump. When are we going to see some f------ handcuffs on some f------ criminals in this country?”

Those investigators, she continued, should be “locked up ... behind bars for the rest of their lives.”

Lake, who is best known for pushing a series of voting conspiracy theories and unsuccessful lawsuits to overturn her election loses, has more recently faced controversy for systematically dismantling the Agency for Global Media, which oversees a number of state-run media services that inform foreign audiences about U.S. policies and seek to combat propaganda and misinformation in autocratic regimes.

She has also pushed a number of inflammatory attacks against Trump's political critics, claiming that the murder of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk was enabled by "indoctrination camps" on liberal college campuses.