All posts tagged "Kari Lake"

Donald Trump appointee Kari Lake vowed to fight a ruling by an "activist" judge, but an insider was quick to point out that the judge was appointed by Ronald Reagan.

Lake's actions in office were ruled "void" on Saturday after a conservative judge found that she was "illegally elevated." She was put in charge of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) by Trump, and soon went down a path of trying to systematically destroy her own agency.

Then, as part of a lawsuit brought against Lake, a judge has ruled that she was improperly put in charge....

A Donald Trump nominee's actions in office were ruled "void" on Saturday after a conservative judge found that she was "illegally elevated."

Trump ally Kari Lake was put in charge of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) by Trump. She soon went down a path of trying to systematically destroy her own agency.

Now, as part of a lawsuit brought against Lake, a judge has ruled that she was improperly put in charge....

Three years ago, Jonathan Cagle was a MAGA loyalist, part of a messaging machine that sowed doubts about the outcome of elections and helped build an air of inevitability around Donald Trump’s return to power.

Last week in Alabama, a federal magistrate judge ordered Cagle held without bond, for allegedly cyberstalking U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, the top civil rights official in Trump’s Department of Justice.

As Trump enters the second year of his tempestuous second term, Cagle’s story offers a signpost to growing disillusionment and division on the U.S. far right. ...

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?”...

Kari Lake is under investigation for possible criminal violations of the law related to her leadership at the Voice of America.

President Donald Trump installed the failed Republican candidate for Arizona governor and U.S. Senate to reduce the workforce at the outlet and the U.S. Agency for Global Media, but the Government Accountability Office has opened an investigation into a federal judge's allegations that she overstepped her statutory authority with her layoffs, reported the Washington Post.

“[W]hen Congress appropriated $260 million to VOA for [fiscal year] 2025, it did not anticipate that such a significant sum of taxpayer funds would be used to pay employees to sit at home for months on end,” wrote U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee. “The legal term for that is ‘waste,’ and it is precisely what federal appropriation law aims to avoid.”...

Kari Lake, special advisor to the United States Agency for Global Media, struggled to remember that the people of Armenia speak Armenian.

During a Wednesday hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) asked Lake about the status of America's Voice of Armenia.

"Do you happen to know, Ms. Lake? I come from the land of William Saroyan, and I assume you know what language the people of Armenia speak?" ...