Ex-Republican National Committee spokesperson Tim Miller claimed that Trump appointee Kari Lake approached him and screamed in his face at an afterparty for the conservative Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest convention this weekend.
Miller — a writer-at-large for the anti-Trump conservative website The Bulwark — wrote on Sunday that the failed Arizona gubernatorial and senatorial candidate screamed “DON’T TOUCH ME” and “YOU ARE A PIECE OF SHIT” at him.
He wrote that he suspected the encounter was because of a previous run-in, a 2023 interview the place he known as Lake out for obsessing over Donald Trump’s “big lie” and he expressed discomfort together with her touching his fingers.
He additionally described the encounter with the election-denying conspiracy theorist as a “SCENE” at an afterparty for a convention that noticed the president-elect delivering his first large-scale public speech because the election on Sunday.
“‘You are a piece of shit!’ she repeats over, and over, and over, and over, and over, staring up at me with increasing rage in her eyes and at times pinching my arm like an angry grandmother,” wrote Miller of Lake.
He famous on X that Lake’s husband, Jeff Halperin, “taped the performance.”
Miller added that he didn’t movie the trade and his physique “immediately went into fight or flight mode, so it is possible that my recollection of the exact language she used is slightly off.”
“Given that Lake taped the exchange, I suspect we might get to see it in full,” wrote Miller, who famous that Lake additionally informed him he was “fake news,” a “liar” and that he didn’t care about “fentanyl mothers.”
Far-right web persona and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer proceeded to make her option to the 2 and — in a tone match for a “public gathering” — echoed that he was a “lying POS” earlier than Lake wound down, in keeping with Miller.
Lake seems to function the director of the traditionally nonpartisan, government-funded Voice of America information outlet after Trump named her as his decide to guide the company earlier this month.
The appointment of the VOA director is solely approved by the International Broadcasting Advisory Board beneath the International Broadcast Act.
Miller later informed The Daily Beast he believes he principally “smiled awkwardly” through the encounter and he wasn’t sure on his response till he sees the video.
“A few times I attempted to congratulate Lake on her new role as the nominee to be the director of the Voice Of America,” he wrote over textual content. “At first I was trying to de-escalate, but eventually I confess that I was mocking her.”
HuffPost has reached out to each Lake and Loomer for remark.
Lake, in a publish to X on Sunday, shared her “vision” for VOA and wrote that the mainstream media “thinks the only way to be a fair journalist is if you hate Trump.”
“That’s wrong,” she claimed.
“We’re not asking you to take a loyalty pledge to the regime. We want impartial coverage that is accurate & honest I’m loyal to the truth.”
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