https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-kari-lake-director-voice-america-donors-ambassadors/story?id=116709798President-elect Donald Trump announced that Kari Lake, a former news anchor and Arizona Senate candidate, would be the next director of the publicly funded Voice of America network. The update came amid several back-to-back appointments to his administration on Wednesday night, all of which he shared through his Truth Social account.
In his post congratulating Lake, Trump said, "Kari was a beloved News Anchor in Arizona, which supported me by record margins, for over 20 years."
Trump also indicated that he will soon announce a leader for the U.S. Agency of Global Media. He wrote that Lake would work closely with that person "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."
Lake, who lost her bid for a Senate seat in Arizona in this year's election, did not have a straightforward political career prior to aligning with Trump.
She left the GOP for eight years to register as an Independent, and then a Democrat, before returning to her political career as a Republican, where she found success with policies aligning with the Make America Great Again crowd.
She was a vocal backer of Trump's "big lie" about election fraud in 2021 -- and she used that narrative to fuel her own campaign for governor in 2022. She also refused to concede the loss of her own gubernatorial race and attempted, unsuccessfully, to overturn the results.
