Kari Lake, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead Voice of America (VOA), said the government-funded international broadcaster is “worth trying to save” because it can be a weapon of truth in the information war.

Lake, speaking Friday morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, said she had previously advocated for turning off and canceling subscriptions to “the fake news” media and the Department of Government Efficiency’s findings show that her strategy “actually worked.”

“We rendered the fake news worthless and useless, only to find out that our government has been propping them up, keeping them alive with tens of millions of dollars of our tax money,” Lake said. “It is absolutely sick. They propped them up. So the mainstream media is really just kind of a zombie media right now. They’re a bunch of zombie media outlets who can only make payroll if our government funnels millions of dollars to them.

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