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MAGA Candidate Calls Trump ‘Greatest President of Our Lifetime’

Former anchor sounds off the wall; perfect for GOP

Manny Otiko
2 min readSep 29, 2021
Kari Lake (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Kari Lake is a TV anchor-turned-Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate. She’s already produced some pretty insane ads that feature her smashing TV sets. It’s supposed to indicate her destroying “the mainstream media.”

But in a recent interview with neo-fascist Steve Bannon, she described Donald Trump as “the greatest president of our lifetime.”

Really? Two impeachments, a scandal of the week and an insurrection? And you call that “the greatest?”

Is she mentally ill? Or just BSing? Or is this more political gaslighting designed to warp the truth? I can’t tell these days. But, of course, Trump has endorsed her. He would endorse the Devil if he said something nice about him!

Lake is also deep into conspiracy theories, as most Republicans are these days, and accused Democratic Sec. of State Katie Hobbs of being the “mastermind” behind the 2020 stolen election. Arizona has already had two audits; both showed Joe Biden won Arizona. But GOP state party chair Kelli Ward has asked for another one!

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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