Donald Trump wants Kari Lake to run Voice of America. That's not his call.

[Zorro]

President-elect Donald Trump's announcement Wednesday that he wants Kari Lake to run Voice of America was heavy with his usual bombastic nonsense but light on details for how she might actually get the job.

Trump proclaimed Lake as the solution to "lies spread by the Fake News Media." But he doesn't have the power to install her atop that federal agency.

Congress took that power from presidents at the very end of Trump's first term in 2021, overriding his veto of the legislative package that included this reform.

Why was that reform needed? Well Michael Pack, Trump's first-term appointee to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, served as an agent of partisan chaos and controversy in an agency meant to combat propaganda.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/12/14/trump-kari-lake-voice-of-america-senate-approval/76948806007/

[Irish_Dem]

1. Who stops Trump from doing whatever he wants to do?

[FBaggins]

2. Not much

It was changed by Congress four years ago… but there’s a new Congress coming in…

… more importantly - Trump indirectly controls the new process anyway with Rubio replacing Blinken on the board

[Irish_Dem]

4. Trump and Musk control it all.

What Trump cannot control directly, Musk controls indirectly with bribes and threats.

[paleotn]

8. Don't give them more power than they're due.

They aren't as big as you think they are.

[Irish_Dem]

10. I am not giving them anything.

I am reporting what we are currently seeing with our own eyes.

[JohnnyRingo]

5. Then this, along with many other controversial appointments.....

...will be an oft repeated loyalty test for The House and Senate. Over and over.
I can see him getting away with that in some cases for a while, but it would soon turn into a battle of egos. People don't run for Congress to be treated like trained chimps.

[HUAJIAO]

9. Just wait and see.

[dweller]

3. And if she doesn't get it

She’ll be whining forever that she “ is the real voice of America “ and demanding another recount and another lawsuit





✌🏻

[jimfields33]

6. What's nice is nobody heard of this organization before he nominated her.

Now it’s getting exposure.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. I beg to differ. It was big news at DU four years ago.

And good morning.

[jimfields33]

13. It's nice that it's revisited after a four year lull.

[paleotn]

7. He's spewing again. He does that.

Not even a quarter of what he spews will or can ever get done.

[Sneederbunk]

12. Lake just needs to think she is running VOA.

[rubbersole]

14. Just confiscate all the lense Vaseline in America...

...and she'll melt under real light.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

15. Yet,

Whatever law or procedure or regulation or precedent anyone thinks will stop the cristofascist terrorist MAGAt GOP can be charged by a complacent Legislature and a puppet Judiciary, all with the acquiescence of a duplicitous press and a clueless public. Expect every sort of malfeasance on the part of these people, and grin in private at those instances where they are too incompetent to make them happen - it'll be your only entertainment. Grinning in pubic may get you sent to a black site.

Not to be dark or anything.