Radio stations that report on the movements of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents should have their broadcast licenses "yanked," Kari Lake, nominee for director of Voice of America, told Newsmax on Friday.
"I actually first heard about it about a week ago when I was here on Newsmax, and you played the sound from that radio clip, and it was literally describing what the ICE agents were driving, down to the detail, to warn people," Lake said on "Newsline." "They were putting these law enforcement officers and ICE agents' lives at risk by putting out this information, and this radio station was aiding and abetting criminals, and I believe that they should have their license yanked. How dare they do that?"
"These licenses are given out to radio stations and television stations, and we're finding out that a lot of these media outlets have been lying to us — misleading us — and now we're learning that they're getting money from our own taxpayer dollars that are going to some of these outlets," she said. "It's reprehensible what's happening."
Lake said she was "glad" that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brenden Carr was looking into reports that a San Francisco-based radio station broadcast updates on the whereabouts of ICE agents and their vehicles. KCBS' parent company, Audacy, is reportedly owned by liberal billionaire donor George Soros.
"Soros bought 250 radio stations [and,] it was all rushed through before this administration made it in," Lake said, referring to the Trump administration. "It was rushed through as one of the final acts against this country that [former President Joe] Biden and his administration inflicted on us, and I think that needs to be looked at once again, a little bit closer, if this man right here who has done so much harm to our country is the one controlling the narrative."
She also weighed in on pushback against Department of Government Efficiency Chair Elon Musk, who recently came under fire by Democrats for his revelations about wasteful government spending at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
"None of them are talking about what Elon Musk has revealed to us," Lake said. "They're not talking about the $260 million that has funded George Soros. They're not talking about the tens of millions of dollars that have gone to places like Politico, The New York Times. They're not talking about the transgender opera that cost millions of dollars that they were trying to start up in Colombia, and the push of DEI all across the globe. … They just want him out, and I believe the reason they want him out is, remember, this is just the first agency he's taking a look at. He's combing through with a fine-toothed comb. Wait 'til we get to the other agencies. We're going to find out that there have been crimes committed."
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