Kari Lake was frustrated. The former TV news star and Arizona political candidate had in recent weeks vented to allies that she was still not in the leading position at Voice of America, despite being picked for the role as one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken and loyal surrogates, though she had been named a special adviser at VOA’s parent company.
“I want people to know that I’m not in the director position at Voice of America,” Lake said in an interview on Newsmax last week. She distanced herself from VOA’s website, from the “egregious or outrageous” work of the “Trump-proofed” agency that houses it and from the MAGA criticism swirling a day after an Oval Office dustup with Trump and a VOA journalist.
Now it’s unclear if she’ll ever get anything approaching that kind of government power.