‘I can’t name it’: Kari Lake forgets that people in Armenia speak Armenian
David Edwards
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Kari Lake, special advisor to the United States Agency for Global Media, struggled to remember that the people of Armenia speak Armenian.
During a Wednesday hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) asked Lake about the status of America’s Voice of Armenia.
“Do you happen to know, Ms. Lake? I come from the land of William Saroyan, and I assume you know what language the people of Armenia speak?”
“I’ve actually heard it,” Lake replied. “It’s a beautiful language. I can’t name it. Can you please tell me?”
“Yeah, it’s Armenian,” Costa explained. “The story of Armenian language is, and the Voice of Armenia, was so that the people of Armenia would understand — who were under the oppression of the Soviet Union — what America stood for and what our values stood for.”
