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turbinetree

(27,735 posts)
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 11:44 AM Aug 2025

'Their time here is up': Kari Lake moves to deport her own ex-employees

By Matthew Chapman
Published August 12, 2025 11: ET

President Donald Trump's top bureaucrat in charge of the U.S. state-run international broadcasting service known as Voice of America has a new goal, The Atlantic reported on Tuesday — deport employees who formerly worked for that agency.

Lake, a former news anchor from the Phoenix area and multiple-time failed candidate for higher office in Arizona, did everything in her power to shutter the agency she was put in charge of — and how, wrote Toluse Olurunnipa, "Her latest targets are J-1 visa holders who worked for Voice of America ... in part because they embody a trifecta of triggers for Trump’s ire — they are federal employees, they are immigrants, and they are journalists."

She has been making these threats in a series of interviews given to right-wing talk show hosts — one of the most recent being with Eric Bolling of Real America's Voice.

https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-2673877651/

another sycophant.............

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'Their time here is up': Kari Lake moves to deport her own ex-employees (Original Post) turbinetree Aug 2025 OP
They're all sick and deranged Septua Aug 2025 #1
This is the same Kari Lake who wanted to take Ruben Gallego's place in the US Senate. DFW Aug 2025 #2

Septua

(2,964 posts)
1. They're all sick and deranged
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 12:04 PM
Aug 2025

Lake, Trump, Trump's Cabinet secretaries and Trump/MAGA proponents.

DFW

(60,442 posts)
2. This is the same Kari Lake who wanted to take Ruben Gallego's place in the US Senate.
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 12:36 PM
Aug 2025

I think Ruben just might have been the better choice.............................

https://apnews.com/article/gallego-iowa-democrats-trump-tax-town-hall-dc349429d7183a3fddf089cd313ffb3d

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