Voice of America aired Trump’s message to Iranian people during US bombings
by Joseph Gedeon in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6Y7N5)
US-run news outlet had earlier been branded propaganda' and leftist' by the White House as it sought to close it
Voice of America (VOA) may have been used to broadcast Donald Trump's message to Iranians in Farsi during weekend military strikes, the president's senior adviser told Congress on Wednesday, revealing how the crumbling, traditionally independent news service is possibly functioning as a conduit for presidential messaging.
Kari Lake, Trump's handpicked choice to oversee the US Agency for Global Media, told the House foreign affairs committee that VOA crews worked on Saturday to deliver Trump's message as bombing operations were under way.
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