Ex-Republican Nationwide 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 resulting from a previous run-in, a 2023 interview where he called Lake out for obsessing over Donald Trump’s “large lie” and he expressed discomfort with her touching his hands.
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 since the election on Sunday.
“‘You’re a piece of shit!’ she repeats over, and over, and over, and over, and over, staring up at me with rising rage in her eyes and at occasions pinching my arm like an indignant grandmother,” wrote Miller of Lake.
He famous on X that Lake’s husband, Jeff Halperin, “taped the efficiency.”
Miller added that he didn’t movie the change and his physique “instantly went into struggle or flight mode, so it’s doable that my recollection of the precise language she used is barely off.”
“On condition that Lake taped the change, I believe we’d get to see it in full,” wrote Miller, who famous that Lake additionally instructed him he was “faux information,” a “liar” and that he didn’t care about “fentanyl moms.”
Far-right web persona and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer proceeded to make her strategy to the 2 and — in a tone match for a “public gathering” — echoed that he was a “mendacity POS” earlier than Lake wound down, in line with Miller.
Lake appears 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 licensed by the Worldwide Broadcasting Advisory Board under the International Broadcast Act.
Miller later told The Daily Beast he believes he largely “smiled awkwardly” throughout the encounter and he wasn’t sure on his response till he sees the video.
“Just a few occasions I tried to congratulate Lake on her new function because the nominee to be the director of the Voice Of America,” he wrote over textual content. “At first I used to be attempting to de-escalate, however ultimately I confess that I used to be mocking her.”
HuffPost has reached out to each Lake and Loomer for remark.
Lake, in a post to X on Sunday, shared her “imaginative and prescient” for VOA and wrote that the mainstream media “thinks the one strategy to be a good journalist is in the event you hate Trump.”
“That’s flawed,” she claimed.
“We’re not asking you to take a loyalty pledge to the regime. We would like neutral protection that’s correct & trustworthy I’m loyal to the reality.”
