“Our border … is in the operational control of narcoterrorists, the cartels … You don’t have to go that far back to remember the Opium Wars. You bring down a dynasty with drugs … They’re hitting us with the drugs pouring in, killing 100,000 or more last year,” says Kari Lake: The Assault on Patriotism and the Fight to Restore the American Dream.
Prior to running, she was a television news anchor for more than two decades. We take a deeper look into her motivations, her policy proposals, and what she sees as an assault on the freedoms that built America.
“What good is that hefty paycheck, what good is that retirement plan, those benefits … if we don’t have a country at the end of the day to enjoy that money in? What good is my retirement if my children don’t have freedom?”
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FULL TRANSCRIPT
Jan Jekielek:
Kari Lake, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
Kari Lake:
I am so honored to be here, Jan. I’ve watched your interviews for a long time now, and I just feel lucky to be in this chair with you.
Mr. Jekielek:
Very kind. We actually met, I think, in mid-2019 at a live taping of an American Thought Leaders’ episode, if I recall.
Ms. Lake:
That’s right.
Mr. Jekielek:
You were doing some pretty serious soul searching, actually.
Ms. Lake:
Yes. It was one of the many times I’ve been canceled by the Left. I was in the middle of my career, and I think I had a hot mic issue where someone overheard me saying something, which was basically me responding to an attempt to silence the conservative voices, or just voices. There was really an effort to get me off of different outlets, and different social media platforms like Parler.
My issue was, why? We’re reaching people. Twitter, it was pretty obvious to me way back then, was about censoring. I was trying to get on other outlets to try to reach people who had been censored from Twitter. I wanted to hear their voices as well. I remember being frustrated. I was so excited to meet you, because I really admire The Epoch Times and their fair journalism.
Mr. Jekielek:
It’s funny. As you’re talking about this, I almost thought for a second you’re talking about your campaign, but this is long before anything to do with campaign. You have your 22 year job as a Fox affiliate main host at this local Fox affiliate in Arizona. You’re starting to wonder what’s going on. Then I remember, a year after that, you come out with this video where you indict the media.
Ms. Lake:
Yes. When we met I really was really noticing all the censorship, and starting to see that it was getting increasingly hard to speak truth, because the media has been taken over, the corporate media, by Liberals. I mean, 90 per cent of the people working in corporate media are Liberals, some of them hardcore Leftists.
Look, we’ve got to have ideologies of everybody included. They’re looking at diversity basically based on skin color or country of origin, but they’re not looking at diversity based on ideology. We’ve gotten stuck w