Kari Lake promotes Trump on Voice of America. Does that break the law?

[babylonsister]

Kari Lake promotes Trump on Voice of America. Does that break the law?
January 30, 20265:01 AM ET
David Folkenflik
Trump administration official Kari Lake praised the president effusively in a January 2026 appearance on Voice of America's Persian language service. As she oversees the network's parent agency, critics say her comments violated the spirit and perhaps even the letter of federal law that seeks to safeguard Voice of America's editorial independence.


Kari Lake, who oversees the parent agency of the Voice of America, has hit legal and political roadblocks in her drive to dismantle the government-funded broadcaster.

She has instead accelerated her use of the U.S. government-owned network to promote President Trump and his views — in possible violation of federal law and policies.

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Veterans of the agency and Voice of America tell NPR that having their boss on the air in a partisan role is different.

"It seems to contradict the spirit and the sense of the firewall," says Rick Stengel, the former top editor of Time magazine, who sat on the agency's governing board while serving in the U.S. State Department during the Obama administration.

"Listening to Kari Lake, she sounded more like a press secretary for the president than the head of an independent news service," Stengel says. "We never wanted it to sound like a state broadcaster in an authoritarian country that would air hagiographic biographies of the Dear Leader."

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https://www.npr.org/2026/01/30/nx-s1-5683246/kari-lake-trump-voa-pnn-iran-firewall-propaganda

[RandySF]

1. Yes

[efhmc]

2. Every single thing they do breaks the law.

And no one pays for it except for the freedom loving people of the us.

[SamKnause]

3. What law ???

The law no longer applies in this corrupt dying country.