🔥President Trump has fired hundreds of employees at Voice of America as his government aims to trim down the size of the federal broadcaster and retool its editorial strategy.

The nearly 600 employees who were first from VOA this week include mostly contractors, The New York Times reported, noting that figure represents about a third of the broadcaster’s staff.

A copy of a notification to effected employees, which was reviewed by The Hill, informed the staffers that they will be terminated as of May 30 and instructs them to return badges, credentials and other VOA property by that time.

The news comes just days after Kari Lake, who serves as the senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), said VOA would partner with conservative media outlet One America News to provide news feed services to USAGM networks.
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WATCH🔥: Associate Deputy AG Eagle Ed Martin weighs in on the James Comey 8647 shenanigans - Says he'll go to jail one way or another:

"The first thing that happens is he says, 'I didn't know that meant that,' that would probably be something that some people that he worked with that will testify, you know? Or there might even be a paper trail that says, 'he used that phrase and everybody knew,' but there'll be a point where a jury will be asked - a fact finder - like shouldn't the guy know - here's a record of what you're doing? It's not like he just moved to the country last week and has never been exposed to the media or the law... This is a seasoned professional who knows. And look, he took it down so fast, he knows he made a mistake. But, excuse me, I don't think this statute is one that you can take back. It's pretty clear... That may mitigate his jail sentence or something like that, but I think he's got a problem and as you point out, perjury, traps are next because he's got to either lie or tell the truth and when he chooses that, he's either going to jail on one or he's going to jail on the other."

He says he doesn't know if Comey may be a drinker and was possibly impaired because, he says, "this was a colossal misjudgment by somebody who should have known better."

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