Osanda ukukhethwa ukuba ngumongameli weMelika uMnu. Donald Trump ngoLwesithathu uthe ulungiselela ukukhetha owayeyintathelizindaba eArizona njalo ephatheke kwezombusazwe uNkosazana Kari Lake, ukuthi abengumholi womsakazo weVoice of America wona othola imali yokusebenza kuhulumende.
UMnu. Trump wethule lumbiko enkundleni yakhe yokuxhumana ebulenjini eye Truth Social owokuthi uNkosazana Lake, uzakuba ngumqondisi we VOA.
Umsakazo weIStudio 7 uyingxenye yeVOA.
UNkosazana Lake ubikwa ezwanana loMnu. Trump njalo wayeyintatheli yomsakazo kamabonakude owe Fox News esabelweni sePhoenix eArizona.
Wasebenza njengentathelizindaba okweminyaka engamatshumi amabili lasikhombisa 27, watshiya ngomnyaka ka 2021 ukuyancintisa ukuba ngusibalukhulu weArizona.
Kulandela ukwehluleka ukuba nguSenator kuwonalo umnyaka, wathi isabelo seArizona kufanele silandele isinqumo sokuthi kunanzwe abantu beAmerica kuqala.
UMnu. Trump ngoLwesithathu uphinde wathi uzamemezela ukuthi ukhetha bani ukuba akhokhele ugatsha lukahulumende wakhe olwe U.S. Agency for Global Media, olwazakala ngokuthi yiUSAGM, okuyilo olulawula i-VOA leminye imisakazo eyamukela imali kuhulumende weMelika.
Isikhundla leso kufanele samukelwe yinkundla yeSenate. UMnu. Trump uthi ozakhokhela i-USAGM nguye ozasebenza loNkosazana Lake.
Umsebenzi womholi weUSAGM ngowokubona ukuthi abasakazi bayenelisa ukugcwalisa izinqumo zokuthi babe lendaba ezimqotho emazweni lapho okusilela ukwethulwa kembiko ngendlela ekhululekileyo.
Ongumqondisi we VOA okwamanje uMnu. Mike Abramowitz uthumele incwadi ye email ngoLwesine ekuseni esithi ubalile ngodaba lukaNkosazana Lake kodwa kaphiwanga olunye ulwazi ngakho wazi lokho akubale ebulenjini kuphela.
Ulobe wathi: “Ngiyamukela ukuthi kube lokuqhubelana kuhle intambo zobukhokheli e-USAGM lase VOA. Ngizasebenza labaphathi abatsha beUSAGM leVOA ukuqhubelana labo intambo, silandela iziqondiso ezibekiweyo ekukhethweni komholi we VOA.”
Umholi we USAGM ulamandla okuqhatsha lokumisa umsebenzi iziphathamandla zalologatsha kodwa kulandelwa umthetho owabekwa ngenyanga kaMpalakazi 2020, sokufanele isinqumo asithathayo sivotelwe yi Intenrational Broadcasting Advisory Board. Iboard le ilamalunga ayisithupha akhethwa ngumongameli kanye lomabhalane kahulumende. Umsebenzi wabo ngowokuxwayisa umholi ukuthi kuhlonitshwe ukuzimela komsakazo labasebenzelana lawo njalo kulotshwe indaba ezilohlonzi.
Eloba enkundleni yeX, uNkosazana Lake uthe uzizwa ehlonitshiwe ngalelinyathelo ngoba i-VOA ngumsakazo obalulekileyo emazweni omhlaba ekhuthaza ukuthi kube lenhlonipho yentando yabanengi kanye leqiniso.
Uthe ngaphansi kobukhokheli bakhe, uzasebenza gadalala ukuthi umsebenzi weVOA uphumelele ukusabalalisa osokufezwe ngeleMelika emhlabeni wonke.
Umsakazo we VOA uzamile ukukhuluma loNkosazana Lake ngaloludaba usebenzisa abethula imbiko abamkhankaselayo ebulenjini kodwa ulokhe ungakatholi impendulo.
Umsakazo weVOA ngeviki wethulela abantu abazinkulungwane ezedlula izigidi ezintathu 354 million, ngendimi izifika phose amatshumi amahlanu, 49. Umqondisi we VOA uMnu. Abramowitz, wayengumholi we Freedom House njalo eyintathelizindaba lomhleli we Washington Post okweminyaka engamatshumi amabili lane.