Kari Lake Enrages House Democrat as She Brings Up Fake ‘Gay Lover’ Story During Fiery Hearing

Kari Lake left a Democratic congressman furious and flustered after she brought up a fake story about a House colleague having a gay lover during an intense back-and-forth on the House floor.

The moment came after Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) grilled Lake, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser at the Agency for Global Media on Wednesday, an exchange that often got personal as he challenged Lake on her two state election losses, the results of which she refused to accept.

As Stanton wrapped up his questioning, he sarcastically asked Lake to run for Arizona governor again.

Lake responded by asking if she could “yield back the last five minutes of my life,” before going on to say, “I remember the stories about you where they said you had a gay lover. And those were going to-”

“Mr. Chairman!” Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA) cut in angrily. “I hope you honor what you just gave as a caution to everyone and I move those words be-”

Lake then went on, saying that those lies “could be broadcast today on [Voice of America] and there was nothing that could be done about it.

Read the full exchange here:

KARI LAKE: Can I respond to some of that because that was complete insanity? I wish I could yield back the last five minutes of my life, actually. And I want to apologize to the people of Arizona that we have somebody who’s representing the folks in our great parts of the valley that doesn’t care about the integrity of our elections. But you weren’t here — you came in late — and we were talking about USA JAM today, the agency for global media, and how they could put out absolute, abject lies and we can’t control — we have no say over what the editorial content is. And I would hope that you would not be OK with that. They could literally put out a lie about anybody here. And I know you’ve been the victim of that. I know you’ve been the victim. I remember the stories about you where they said you had a gay lover. And those were going to-

REP. BILL KEATING: Mr. Chairman!

LAKE: Can I finish the story?

KEATING: I hope you honor what you just gave as a caution to everyone and I move those words be-

LAKE: To tell you that those kind of lies. And you said those were lies. Those kind of lies could be broadcast today on VOA. And you couldn’t pick up the phone, Rep. Stanton, and call them and say, “Hey, you’re putting out lies about me.” You would not be able to do that because they would sue you for breaking the firewall. So lies are being told on Voice of America. It’s inappropriate. You’ve been subjected to lies that you said were lies about you in the media before. And how would you like it if those lies were put on Voice of America right now? Beacuse they could do it and you couldn’t do a thing about it.  You couldn’t stop it.  You couldn’t stop all those lies that you said were said about you if they went on Voice of America today. You’d have to sit and take it.

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