by Misty Severi
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday night announced that former Arizona GOP Senate nominee Kari Lake will be the next director of the U.S. government’s “Voice of America” (VOA) news agency.
Lake, who ran for Arizona governor in 2022 and the Senate in 2024, worked as a news anchor for more than two decades, the former president said.
Trump said Lake will work alongside the next leader of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, who has not been announced so far. Both VOA and the global media agency receive funding from the U.S. government, and are accountable to Congress.
“I am pleased to announce that Kari Lake will serve as our next Director of the Voice of America,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “She will be appointed by, and work closely with, our next head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, who I will announce soon, to ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media.”
Trump also nominated former Florida sheriff detective Daniel Newlin for U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, and Florida doctor and businessman Peter Lamelas for U.S. ambassador to Argentina.
“Peter is a physician, philanthropist, and an incredible businessman, best known for founding the largest Urgent Care healthcare company in Florida,” Trump said of Lamelas. “As a child, Peter and his family fled communist Cuba, and LEGALLY immigrated to the USA, starting with nothing, and achieving the American Dream.”
“I previously appointed him to serve on the Department of Justice’s Medal of Valor Review Board, which honors the courage of our Nation’s incredible first responders,” he continued. “He has served on the Florida Board of Medicine, and as a Town Commissioner in Manalapan, Florida.”
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Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.
Photo “Kari Lake” by Gage Skidmore CC2.0.
