{"id":67293,"date":"2025-08-29T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67293"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:00:58","slug":"trump-flunky-kari-lake-is-blocked-from-silencing-the-voice-of-america-by-a-gop-appointed-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67293","title":{"rendered":"Trump Flunky Kari Lake is Blocked From Silencing the Voice of America By a GOP-Appointed Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

High on the priority list for Donald Trump in his second occupation of the White House has been his fierce determination to subjugate the media to his will. He has endeavored furiously to clamp down on the free press and to reshape the White House press corps into a slobbering cabal of sycophants.<\/p>\n

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In the process, Trump installed blindly loyal and unflinching servants to his anti-democratic and flagrantly censorious agenda. Among them was the failed Arizona gubernatorial and senate candidate, Kari Lake. Trump created a new position for her to reign over what used to be the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees multiple international broadcasting networks including Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), Radio Television Mart\u00ed, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), and the Voice of America (VOA). And Lake began immediately to dismantle the entire operation and\/or redefine its mission to become a Trump Propaganda Disseminator.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately, the Trump\/Lake Department of Disinformation suffers from the same inherent flaws that have hobbled almost every other government agency over which Trump rules: terminal stupidity and incompetence. And as a result, it is struggling to complete its unholy mission of strangling one of the most effective international news networks ever conceived. As reported by NPR<\/a><\/strong> (another network that Trump is trying to destroy<\/a><\/strong>) reported that…<\/p>\n

“A federal judge ruled on Thursday that Trump administration official Kari Lake can’t unilaterally fire the director of Voice of America, saying she’s breaking the law in trying to do so.<\/p>\n

“Instead, by law, Lake must have the explicit backing of an advisory panel set up by Congress to help insulate the international broadcaster and its sister networks from political pressure. As President Trump dismissed six of the seven members of the panel shortly after taking office and has not named their replacements to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Lake cannot take such an action.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lake and her Justice Department lawyers were humiliated in court when U.S Senior District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that “The defendants do not even feign that their efforts to remove [director of VOA, Michael] Abramowitz comply with that statutory requirement, There is no longer a question of whether the termination was lawful.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Lake expressed confidence that she would prevail on appeal because “elections have consequences.”<\/em> Which is precisely the sort of rank politicization that the law was crafted to avoid. Then she made an obtuse and irrelevant reference to the Constitution and called Lamberth a “radical.”<\/em> Never mind that he was appointed to the bench by conservative icon Ronald Reagan. Lamberth warned the Justice Department attorneys that they were “verging on contempt of court”<\/em> for failing to provide information that he had demanded for months.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen how this matter will resolve. Trump has demonstrated that he is not averse to ignoring judicial mandates. Which is why the rule of law is in such a precarious state under the wannabe dictator currently smelling up the Oval Office. But at least the courts are remaining true to the law and the Constitution – for now. And if the people and their representatives remain stalwart in defense of American principles, we will prevail in the long run. Keep hope alive!<\/p>\n

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