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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

What is Voice of America? Trump wants Kari Lake to run global news network he tried to ‘bulldoze’

Donald Trump has gone over the head of an international press agency to select his own nominee for its publicly funded flagship news network.

Trump wants Kari Lake — the failed Republican candidate for Arizona governor and U.S. Senate who pledged to be the media’s “worst nightmare” — to run Voice of America, the nation’s oldest international broadcaster, reaching millions of people around the world.

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