It's a time-tested strategy, straight out of 1995: When someone calls you out for lying, falsely accuse that person of being gay.
That's the tack Kari Lake took while testifying in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Lake was there in her capacity as senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees independent news agencies like Voice of America that broadcast in press-hostile countries like Iran, Cuba and China. Lake once aspired to lead VOA, though she's now been tasked with dismantling it, drawing court challenges as a result.
For much of the hearing, Lake comported herself in a way familiar to anyone in Arizona who watched her repeatedly pump bullshit election conspiracy theories en route to losing back-to-back elections for governor and senator. She made shocking allegations about corruption she'd uncovered at USAGM. She provided little in the way of evidence. Like with many of her election claims — and her previous claims about USAGM and VOA — it would surprise no one if her testimony crumbled under the slightest bit of scrutiny.
That seemed to be on the mind of Arizona Rep. Greg Stanton when it was his turn to question Lake. A Democrat who served as the mayor of Phoenix while Lake was still working as a broadcast journalist on local news, Stanton used his time to tear into Lake's history of election denials.
"I’ve seen you in action, including your behavior in the last two elections," Stanton told her....
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