President Donald Trump is doling out a plum ambassador post to Kari Lake, tapping her to represent the United States in Jamaica after her rocky tenure leading the Voice of America.
The White House announced Lake’s nomination on Monday, two months after a federal judge overturned her efforts to largely shutter the federal news service and ruled that Trump had improperly elevated her as its de facto leader.
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Before her tenure in the Trump administration, Lake was the Republican nominee for Senate in Arizona, losing to now-Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) in 2024, and has made her name in national politics as a firebrand supporter of Trump.
In the same announcement, the White House nominated another Trump loyalist, Doug Mastriano, to an ambassador post in the Slovak Republic. His nomination is especially controversial due to his attendance outside the Capitol before the Jan. 6 riot and efforts to help overturn the 2020 presidential
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