Top Trump adviser Kari Lake says managers at Voice of America met numerous times with Chinese officials in a scheme to influence more favorable U.S. coverage of the communist country.

In an interview with the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show, the president’s senior adviser for the U.S. Agency for Global Media said the meetings were discovered in a probe that revealed undue foreign influence on VOA’s operations.

“We found out in our investigations over the months that I’ve been here, that the CCP, operating out of the embassy in Washington, D.C. … were meeting regularly with VOA management to tell them how they should be covering China,” Lake said Tuesday night.

Lake explained the coverage was slanted to put China in a positive light, and at least one official in VOA’s Mandarin language division actually voiced support for the Chinese Communist Party at one of the discussions.

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“I mean, you can’t make this stuff up. It’s so crazy,” she said.

“But then over the years, it got more brazen, and I understand that VOA management, some of them, actually went over to China and met with CCP officials there.”

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Lake also confirmed previous reporting by Just the News that “VOA hired multiple Chinese nationals with ties to Chinese state media, and sponsored hundreds of visas for other foreign journalists to come work at the USAGM subsidiary.”

Just the News reported: “The agency used J1 cultural exchange visas, which are not designed for use as a general work authorization, to sponsor more than 400 foreign journalists from 2009 through the end of the last administration. Nearly 100 of those are from countries that could present particular security concerns, including at least three Chinese nationals who worked for Chinese Communist Party-controlled state-owned media outlets.”

“This agency started hiring non-Americans, people from foreign countries, many people, hundreds upon hundreds from countries that are hostile to America, hired them, brought them into our country to tell America’s story,” Lake explained.

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